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- Tue May 28, 2019 2:05 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Who do psychics talk to?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1816
Who do psychics talk to?
Who do psychics talk to in TV shows like "Britain’s Psychic Challenge" when they say they talk to people who have died long ago? After all, according to Buddhism, they have long been reborn.
- Sun May 19, 2019 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: 4 elements = 4 fundamental forces ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1390
Re: 4 elements = 4 fundamental forces ?
If there are two lists, each of which has four elements, then their relationship does not follow from this. Rather, it is a difficult case of numerology (simple superstition).
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1845
Re: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
I think it's a metaphor. The Buddha was faced with the problem that what he was pointing to had no current terminology among those he was teaching, so he had to use pariyaya or indirect ways of speaking about and alluding to them. Just as nibbana is not merely a cooling (or whatever your favourite ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1845
Re: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
Then is our usual waking state a kind of sleep? That is the idea one can often hear in religious/spiritual circles. E.g. /.../ It’s possible to see normal human consciousness as a kind of ‘sleep’ which we wake up from in these moments. Most people are asleep in the sense that their perception of th...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:33 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1845
Re: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
In the very first sutra, Shakyamuni used the word buddha for self-designation. Did he mean a direct (literal) meaning of this word, i.e. awakened one, or a figurative one, i.e. buddha is a metaphor? How would calling oneself a "buddha" even be some kind of metaphor? That someone would cal...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:47 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1845
Word buddha: a direct meaning or a metaphor?
In the very first sutra, Shakyamuni used the word buddha for self-designation. Did he mean a direct (literal) meaning of this word, i.e. awakened one, or a figurative one, i.e. buddha is a metaphor?
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: There is clearly a lack of a third
- Replies: 1
- Views: 621
There is clearly a lack of a third
There is clearly a lack of a third, Buddhist yogi. That is, Buddhist yoga, with its understanding of the dreamlike nature of what is happening, is the middle path between two extremes (science and religion).
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 3:50 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: 12 nidanas as 12 zoom levels
- Replies: 4
- Views: 871
12 nidanas as 12 zoom levels
12 nidanas are 12 zoom levels (ignorance is a proto-level, and aging and death are the top). Just as subatomic particles make up the proto-level of physical objects, so ignorance is the proto-level of samsara.
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 3:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
Leo Tolstoy: "Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most will agree; but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
Killing is allowed for bodhisattvas in Mahayana, but there are no exceptions in Theravada ( definitely not). It seems not only Mahayana are with exception about killing , Several Pali suttas contain stories where self-euthanizing is not seen as unethical by the Buddha , showing that the issue is mo...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
by Leo Tolstoy : …the blindness in our time of the nations that extol patriotism, bring up their young generations in the superstition of patriotism, and, at the same time, do not wish for the inevitable consequence of patriotism – war – has, it seems to me, reached such a level that the simplest re...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:51 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
Killing is allowed for bodhisattvas in Mahayana, but there are no exceptions in Theravada (definitely not).
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:36 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
One has to take some care of the physical land one is attempting to practice in. If Buddhist lay people wouldn't protect the land, Buddhist monks would have no place to be. Will lay people have the right to kill for the opportunity for the monks to practice? Yes Is it not a violation of the covenan...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:11 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Theravada and patriotism
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6214
Re: Theravada and patriotism
Will lay people have the right to kill for the opportunity for the monks to practice?