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by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:28 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?
Replies: 44
Views: 10500

Re: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?

Judas wrote:
Kare wrote: Did this person Jesus ever exist?
Can a human being experience 'heaven' due to love & forgiveness? Obviously, they can.
...and it would be a delusional obscuration. :tongue:
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:25 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Sanskrit scholars also think very little of the "The Buddha" as an actual person. Do they? :( Well I think he's awesome... so there. Perhaps I should have underlined "actual" - meaning a flesh and blood person who lived and died. Increasingly, scholars are unable to find any sol...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:22 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

are we still talking about the lotus sutra? i read somewhere that Sanskrit scholars think very little of it as a text and whomever wrote it must not have been very proficient in the language. but my own personal opinion was it just dragged on and on and never fully delivered. my zen master once ask...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:37 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Pink Trike: I"m curious...how long did you study the Lotus Sutra, the culture milieu that it came forth from, and the culture's unique use of language, written structure, mythology, allegory, and conceptual ritual? I'm guessing you've studied the Pali scriptures quite awhile to actually unders...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:45 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?
Replies: 44
Views: 10500

Re: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?

The "Jesus" described in Christian mythology was allegorical - a re-visioning of an ancient conceptual devise that was used as a contextual container to put forth a social/moral code based on the idea of "as above, so below" - a devise far removed from the corruptions of religion...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:53 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

The Lotus Sutra uses the forms and images associated with Buddhism e.g. lotus position, expedient means and so on, but I get the impression from what I've read of the sutra that the writer or writers doesn't actually understand what Buddha was talking about in the Pali scriptures, what lies beneath...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:11 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

All the Buddhist traditions are teaching exactly the same thing - with different form. Form is emptiness...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:37 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Two Naked Buddhas
Replies: 42
Views: 10515

Re: Two Naked Buddhas

From his About Daniel Ingram page: I am an arahat with mastery of the formed jhanas, formless realms, Nirodha Samapatti, and a few other traditional attainments. He's an arahat...mastery. Got it? :popcorn: I am one of the few teachers I know of who will talk about high-level practice directly and un...
by pink_trike
Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:17 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Two Naked Buddhas
Replies: 42
Views: 10515

Re: Two Naked Buddhas

Buddhist devotional meditation isn't anything new, and certainly not unique to the West. Hasn't it been true for a very long time that there are those people that are particularly suited for devotional practices, and those who are suited for the approach he seems to think is the only way? While it i...
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:51 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Season's Greetings...
Replies: 7
Views: 1590

Season's Greetings...

I hope everyone has a pleasant and light-hearted holiday season!

---

Since things neither exist nor don't exist,
are neither real nor unreal,
are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting -
one might as well burst out laughing.

Longchenpa Rabjampa
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:38 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Baboons meditating?
Replies: 1
Views: 788

Re: Baboons meditating?

An observation made by a scientist studying baboons in Africa was featured on NPR. See below. "The quiet was total. "I really wondered what was going on," says Smuts. The baboons didn't focus on any one thing. They all, or most of them, gazed down into the little pool right below the...
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:30 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46623

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Tex wrote:
alan wrote:Are there any specific Mahayana concepts you all have rejected? If so, why?
I'm not crazy about the idea of empowerments and some of the other esoteric practices of Vajrayana, Shingon, etc.
They are effective skillful means.
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:15 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: meretricious and happy new beer
Replies: 22
Views: 3779

Re: meretricious and happy new beer

Haddy Grimble, All! :smile:
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:38 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello everyone
Replies: 7
Views: 1341

Re: Hello everyone

Howdy Avid,

Welcome to DW.
by pink_trike
Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:01 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Two Naked Buddhas
Replies: 42
Views: 10515

Re: Two Naked Buddhas

Okay ... don't hit me ... I saw the chance for an attention-grabbing title and seized it. :tongue: But it's a perfectly accurate title too: I have found that there are two books called 'The Naked Buddha'! The one I heard of a couple of years ago but haven't read (I can only get it easily as an audi...