Greetings,

Gami47 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:17 pm

Cowardice - by not being a wuss.

Anxiety - probably depends more on what the root cause is.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings McQueen, It seems to me that identity view arises right when craving takes place. Why/How is it that with the arising of craving, identity view arises? Timely question given your interest in paticcasamuppada... with craving as condition, clinging; with clinging as condition, existence ; wi...

Greetings, This is not the first step, First step is Right view from hearing true dhamma first, then move to thinking/action/speech. If you look at Sutta, Buddha very very rarely teach DO to householder. Why? because they need to let go the family, work, house, etc etc first. Spot on. Understanding ...

Greetings McQueen, What are some practices centered around the 12 links of dependant origination that you have found helpful? How might one practice using, or in accordance with these 12? They are to be understood and seen, not "practiced" per se. If you're serious about this, I recommend ...

Greetings, And here is a sharp Buddhist criticism of Christianity: https://www.academia.edu/43879884/De_Silva_and_Bomhard_Beyond_Belief_A_Buddhist_Critique_of_Fundamentalist_Christianity_2016_ Highly recommend this book. Thanks for the link! Great book. It's beautiful :) Seems just as partisan and d...

Greetings Bundokji, The sekha, as an intermediary state (or designation) seems to get lost in translation. It shouldn't, because that's a "trainee" and if you're not training, what are you doing? The paradoxes or the confusion in relation to sekha are relevant to how he is described in MN1...

Greetings, Is it possible that all the beings will attain Nibbana one day? Well, the infinite monkey theorem states that if you let a monkey hit the keys of a typewriter at random an infinite amount of times, eventually the monkey will type out the entire works of Shakespeare, so maybe? 🤔😂 With that...

Greetings McQueen, My apologies Paul. Sometimes a question asked in the wrong place/time can be very disrupting. May your practice of metta continue to be strong. Thank you for your continued patience. Next time I will PM you :anjali: No need to apologise at all. It's an absolute pleasure to have th...

Greetings, Thanks for openly sharing your pompous contempt. So what was said is not true? No. Mere projection and conjecture. Better to speak of what one has known for themselves than to rattle off arrogant and misguided diatribes about those they've never even met, let alone been. All the best. Met...

Greetings Sasha,

Thanks for openly sharing your pompous contempt.

All the best.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings Joe, Thank for you sharing your perspective, from your vantage point. Nah... You are hedging your bet in "stock terminology". Many here in this board do that. If one is serious, one will just stick to 1. Continue to learn and practice. You can say that, but as I said all the way ...

Greetings Joe, Silabataparamasa needs to be broken. That is not accepting anything from outside without any reproduceable hard proof especially with developed faculties. Which is fine as it goes, but what when one has experienced the fruits of the Spirit for themselves? What then? What if one's hear...

Greetings Sphairos,

sphairos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:48 am Hi Retro,

Why the Almighty, Omniscient, Omnipresent God simply could not make us all Gods?

You'd have to ask him that, although I wonder how could the created be God? It would certainly be a different kind of being by definition.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings Ceisiwr, Sacrificing himself to please himself doesn’t make much sense. He could just forgive and judge us by our actions :shrug: Your perspective only makes sense if you're negating or rejecting sin, and downgrading it to a doctrine of actions or deeds. Unlike kamma however, holiness (the...

Greetings Adam, Please be professional. My views are widespread. Not that I've ever seen, and not that I see in the Bible, so wherever they're allegedly "widespread" is of no interest to me. I think this probably concludes our exchange as you seem more interested in road-testing your pet t...