RBG and her reputation for morality, integrity, and brilliance are so well established, even with those who argued against her, they do not need defense against these bizarre internet attacks. It might be be more useful to silently reflect on the karmic consequences of spreading lies and falsely def...

You can use or adapt some one else’s ideas to formulate your own philosophy as long as acknowledge what you are doing. It is usually best to first understand those ideas in their own context. Separating any Buddhist philosophy from its soteriological purpose misses the point, distorts the thought in...

Get your shots. Avoid the flu or passing on the flu. The odds of a negative reaction are so much less than that that there are no good arguments against it.

Theravada probably did not exist then as a school and was never influential or apparently even known in northern India until after the extinction of Buddhism in India so I can only assume you are referring to the common heritage of Buddhist ideas and, of course, all Buddhists use these. AFAIK, I'm ...

I agree with much of the above, but do we know for sure that it was strictly Sarvāstivādin Abhidharmas the early Yogācārins worked with, or did they synthesize whatever met their ends from a variety of sources? For instance, Venerable Vasubandhu links the alaya to the bhavanga, meaning he must have...

Would it be fair to say that Yogācāra is another, albeit later, northern Abhidhamma? There doesn’t seem to be much in it that relies upon Mahāyāna and it did grow out of the Sautrāntikas who in turn were a sub-sect of the Sarvāstivādins. ...But Venerables Maitreyanātha, Asangha, etc., are Ābhidharm...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 4:39 am Would it be fair to say that Yogācāra is another, albeit later, northern Abhidhamma? There doesn’t seem to be much in it that relies upon Mahāyāna and it did grow out of the Sautrāntikas who in turn were a sub-sect of the Sarvāstivādins.

No, it is neither fair nor accurate.

In addition to any survey of Buddhist philosophy, both Amazon and https://en.m.wikipedia.org has bibliographies for both.

Look up Kit Laughlin, a flexibility teacher and meditator. He has also put out some excellent free videos on limbering up for meditation and flexibility exercises. Thanks So, only this exercise will open my hips? Isn't it a panacea? No, it is one exercise that may or may not help. Kit teaches many,...

Look up Kit Laughlin, a flexibility teacher and meditator. He has also put out some excellent free videos on limbering up for meditation and flexibility exercises.

Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infection...

The way I understand herd immunity means or the word derived from r people and animals living in the wild. Animals in the wild do not ware masks. Nothing to do with wild animals. It derives from the practice of vaccinating a domestic herd, like cattle. If you vaccinate enough of your cattle so that...

Buddhism teaches us to calmly work on resolving our problems and face them. Not to pretend they are not there. Unfortunately the common human tendency is to indulge in wishful thinking. This is especially true of governments and not just India's (see the US or Brazil, also in the top three, or, inde...

... Again I beg to differ....Let me explain in slight detail so you understand....Indian scientists who feel "superior" to rest of us (common affliction among them ... o). They write all types of BS and send it to WHO and other publications.....I know about slum...in greater detail since my maid li...

With all due respect I beg to differ. There is no explanation why the slums are not reporting high mortality. I am not a science basher. Quite the opposite. But I wish that there would be more focused studies on Indian slums and Covid fatalities. The scientists here are not able to understand it at...