...and it would be a delusional obscuration.Judas wrote:Can a human being experience 'heaven' due to love & forgiveness? Obviously, they can.Kare wrote: Did this person Jesus ever exist?
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- 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?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
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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
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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
- 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...
- 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?
They are effective skillful means.Tex wrote:I'm not crazy about the idea of empowerments and some of the other esoteric practices of Vajrayana, Shingon, etc.alan wrote:Are there any specific Mahayana concepts you all have rejected? If so, why?
- 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!
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:38 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello everyone
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1341
Re: Hello everyone
Howdy Avid,
Welcome to DW.
Welcome to DW.
- 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...