I am fact; others are fiction. chownah Correct you are a fact. But if you have ever played football or rugby and tried to carry the ball across the goal you soon realize that the person who tackled you and stopped you was also a fact. You did not pass through him, the two bodies collided as they co...

I am fact; others are fiction.
chownah

Tell physicists that their anthropic principle is easily and naturally explained by the Buddhist law of karma. "Anthropic principle" is an idea that can be held in the mind...if a physicist does not have the idea of anthropic principle in her mind then she does not have an anthropic principle. chow...

Tell physicists that their anthropic principle is easily and naturally explained by the Buddhist law of karma. "Anthropic principle" is an idea that can be held in the mind...if a physicist does not have the idea of anthropic principle in her mind then she does not have an anthropic principle. chow...

dpcalder wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:49 pm I seriously considered becoming a monk but I think a forest hermit would be a better path. any thoughts on how to accomplish this in modern America?

Can you explain what your ideas are about what it is to be a forest hermit?
chownah

I'm not a ludite nor a troglodite Nope, but you certainly have a lot of opinions without knowing the entire picture and a knack for being negative from the start of this whole thing for reasons beyond me. This post was to seek help for translations not to discuss the merits of something you seem to...

If many monastaries keep a physical calendar for this purpose then why is it better to do it automatically with an email?.....there are many asian people who would rather not incur the expense of email use and many who do not understand how to use email.....there are even people in asia (my neighbor...

Bit saddened at the fact that the first comment here is this is a money grab to advertise stuff to laypeople trying to do meritorious deeds though. Which was also the point of the whole project created by a few of us at our own expense. I didn't say that. I conjectured about my uncertainty about wh...

What other permutations of self-theories can we outline? "Belief in self," as I hope I've at least somewhat shown above, is not actually one particular set of beliefs. It is all-encompassing in that it affects the worldling's every interaction with the world and is often unconscious, not consciousl...

“Bhikkhus, there are these three characteristics that define the unconditioned. What three? No arising is seen, no vanishing is seen, and no alteration while it persists is seen. These are the three characteristics that define the unconditioned.” AN 3.47 The Northern Agamas though are a little more...

Sounds like a way to collect personal data....the reason why the data is being collected is not clear to me.....I don't see why anyone would be interested in knowing when other people are giving alms but it would be a way to target advertising to those people in an attempt to sell items to be given ...

All this banter about no self!!!! Didn't the buddha once say that he could not imagine a kind of self which would not bring dukkha? (Can someone find that sutta?) So, I guess, that you can go ahead and imagine some kind of self for yourself but the buddha says that it will be stressful..... Of cours...

So....it seems to me that it would be good if people said something to account for this peculiarity which is found everywhere in the suttas.....why is "atthi" use most always with worldly metaphores related to "nibbana" but it is never used with "nibbana" itself?.......this is not an assertion base...

As I answered it is both here on earth and a plane/realm. However as I also said, hell is only bad because of the people there, and people are composed of views and tendencies. Therefore the problem lies in views and tendencies I couldn't tell from your post whether you meant that somewhere being h...

... If you really think that in texts such as Ud 8.1 nibbāna's existence (whatever that means) is not affirmed then there really is no point in us discussing this further. I don't understand your logic and to me it's poor. Best we just leave it at that and move on, rather than beat the dead horse. ...