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Disputes and your solutions for resolution.
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Indeed……you’re for the bored.
SteRo is a technician btw. Don’t ever assume you have a leg up on him. He’s literally all around you…like a sphere. Impossible to troll. You’ve been warned.
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Re: Disputes and your solutions for resolution.
A thread about resolving disputes results in disputes
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Fear and doubt make people dispute about even obvious matters.
Disputing and pointing out clear wrongs are two wholly different things.
Pointing out wrong is done from a position of certainty and strength.
Defending clear falsehood is done from fear.
It's relatively easy to spot a discussion from fear and a discussion from strength.
Disputing and pointing out clear wrongs are two wholly different things.
Pointing out wrong is done from a position of certainty and strength.
Defending clear falsehood is done from fear.
It's relatively easy to spot a discussion from fear and a discussion from strength.
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Not having a theory and not following a system of thought your words don't apply.Zenny wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:24 pmSo you finally admit you follow a system which deals in true and false.SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:06 pmSo what? Every system of thought (aka "theory") deals with truth vs falshood.
Science might be grasped like a religion, yes, but it isn't a religion because it deals with the material and does not engage in metaphysical speculations like religions do.
If someone believes in a religion and/or in religious speculative tenets then that may be potentially harmful (e.g. causing fear, agitation, self-hate and the like).
Yes but consider automobiles, computers, and the like ... these are manipulations of material appearance that could only be performed by science.
Cannot understand this question.
Science does not cause harm. "confusion" is not science but a mental phenomenon.
Science has nothing to do with metaphysics as it has nothing to do with religion because it merely relies on observation. However you have to differentiate between science on the one hand and particular scientists or believers in science or abusers of science on the other hand.
Not claiming anything but merely expressing thoughts that happen to me your words don't apply.
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Most of the arguments are about how to label an certain experience. Not much essence in them.
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Science is a mental phenomenon. And a belief system. How bizarre and incoherent you think Otherwise!SteRo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:25 amNot having a theory and not following a system of thought your words don't apply.Zenny wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:24 pmSo you finally admit you follow a system which deals in true and false.SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:06 pm
So what? Every system of thought (aka "theory") deals with truth vs falshood.
Science might be grasped like a religion, yes, but it isn't a religion because it deals with the material and does not engage in metaphysical speculations like religions do.
If someone believes in a religion and/or in religious speculative tenets then that may be potentially harmful (e.g. causing fear, agitation, self-hate and the like).
Yes but consider automobiles, computers, and the like ... these are manipulations of material appearance that could only be performed by science.
Cannot understand this question.
Science does not cause harm. "confusion" is not science but a mental phenomenon.
Science has nothing to do with metaphysics as it has nothing to do with religion because it merely relies on observation. However you have to differentiate between science on the one hand and particular scientists or believers in science or abusers of science on the other hand.
Not claiming anything but merely expressing thoughts that happen to me your words don't apply.
Metaphysics is not just religion. Science is based on assumptions and metaphysics. Its instructive you don't seem aware of this.
You are claiming plenty from your belief system.
Your thoughts don't all happen to you. Some of them you express deliberately. Like in your posts.
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Science as system of thought is a mental phenomenon, yes, but it isn't necessarily a belief system.Zenny wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:27 pmScience is a mental phenomenon. And a belief system. How bizarre and incoherent you think Otherwise!SteRo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:25 amNot having a theory and not following a system of thought your words don't apply.
Science does not cause harm. "confusion" is not science but a mental phenomenon.
Science has nothing to do with metaphysics as it has nothing to do with religion because it merely relies on observation. However you have to differentiate between science on the one hand and particular scientists or believers in science or abusers of science on the other hand.
Not claiming anything but merely expressing thoughts that happen to me your words don't apply.
If the expressions of the thoughts that happen to me appear "bizarre and incoherent" to you then these appearances also are a mental phenomena which may be believed by you or not.
But I don't want to further converse about all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us depending on earlier conditionings. Since there is no criterion for truth no truth can be found in either "science" or all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us. Nevertheless I appreciate the progress science has brought about although no truth can be found in it.
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A lot of people are most afraid of how they’ll be judged. For a lot of people the ego is easily bruised.
One benefit of practice is gratitude. By gratitude we overcome the ego.
Without it we are still children colouring pictures for mommy to look at and put on the fridge.
For some, that colouring is the extent of their meditation and their insight. And for some, that is what they are waiting for others to praise.
But - it’s like that at the beginning for everyone. Luckily one may reach a stage in meditation where they no longer need others as a source of confirmation, praise, acknowledgement, “intellectual erections”.
I see no wrong with Buddha Dhamma. For a collection of words and sayings that cover volumes and volumes of pages, it is quite interesting to note that it has fewer internal contradictions than the whole of the New Testament (a body of words and sayings that can be read in a few days).Disputing and pointing out clear wrongs are two wholly different things.
Pointing out wrong is done from a position of certainty and strength.
Are you implying a certain falsehood in the Buddha Dhamma?Defending clear falsehood is done from fear.
It's relatively easy to spot a discussion from fear and a discussion from strength.
Is it the teaching of annica? I see no problem with how the Buddha formulated this teaching or the respective purpose it serves in meditative achievement.
Aren’t you some kind of Zen practitioner? Do you find Self in that “zero” you attempt to anchor your mind to?
Like the three marks of conditioned existence, this world in itself is filthy, hostile, and crowded
Re: Disputes and your solutions for resolution.
Science is a belief system. Only the unaware think otherwise.SteRo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 5:47 amScience as system of thought is a mental phenomenon, yes, but it isn't necessarily a belief system.Zenny wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:27 pmScience is a mental phenomenon. And a belief system. How bizarre and incoherent you think Otherwise!SteRo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:25 am
Not having a theory and not following a system of thought your words don't apply.
Science does not cause harm. "confusion" is not science but a mental phenomenon.
Science has nothing to do with metaphysics as it has nothing to do with religion because it merely relies on observation. However you have to differentiate between science on the one hand and particular scientists or believers in science or abusers of science on the other hand.
Not claiming anything but merely expressing thoughts that happen to me your words don't apply.
If the expressions of the thoughts that happen to me appear "bizarre and incoherent" to you then these appearances also are a mental phenomena which may be believed by you or not.
But I don't want to further converse about all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us depending on earlier conditionings. Since there is no criterion for truth no truth can be found in either "science" or all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us. Nevertheless I appreciate the progress science has brought about although no truth can be found in it.
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Re: Disputes and your solutions for resolution.
For some science may be a belief system. For me it's just a system of verbal expression.Zenny wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:57 pmScience is a belief system. Only the unaware think otherwise.SteRo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 5:47 amScience as system of thought is a mental phenomenon, yes, but it isn't necessarily a belief system.
If the expressions of the thoughts that happen to me appear "bizarre and incoherent" to you then these appearances also are a mental phenomena which may be believed by you or not.
But I don't want to further converse about all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us depending on earlier conditionings. Since there is no criterion for truth no truth can be found in either "science" or all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us. Nevertheless I appreciate the progress science has brought about although no truth can be found in it.
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A lot of Zen Buddhists attempt to anchor their mind to "their true self," not "zero."
(T374.407b6 Parinirvāṇasūtra)Mahākāśyapa Bodhisattva asked the Buddha to speak, saying, "O, Lord, from now I commence in obtaining right view. Lord, until now, we all entirely abided in wrong view. Lord, in the twenty-five existences, is there no ātman?"
The Buddha said: "O, noble son, 'the ātman,' truly, is 'the tathāgatagarbha' in its meaning. All sentient beings have the buddhadhātu and, truly, 'the ātman' is its meaning. Thus so, the ātman's meaning is, from root towards end, constantly covered under kleśas without limit. Therefore, sentient beings cannot obtain sight of it [...]"
This is what many Zenners are trying to yoke themselves to. Their "true self," which is rhetorically the "womb" or "matrix" (garbha) that brings forth the Tathāgata. This isn't "my kind" of Buddhism, but I'm vaguely familiar with it.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
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Though that's not quite how I roll,at least you have some understanding of the higher zen.Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:18 pmA lot of Zen Buddhists attempt to anchor their mind to "their true self," not "zero."(T374.407b6 Parinirvāṇasūtra)Mahākāśyapa Bodhisattva asked the Buddha to speak, saying, "O, Lord, from now I commence in obtaining right view. Lord, until now, we all entirely abided in wrong view. Lord, in the twenty-five existences, is there no ātman?"
The Buddha said: "O, noble son, 'the ātman,' truly, is 'the tathāgatagarbha' in its meaning. All sentient beings have the buddhadhātu and, truly, 'the ātman' is its meaning. Thus so, the ātman's meaning is, from root towards end, constantly covered under kleśas without limit. Therefore, sentient beings cannot obtain sight of it [...]"
This is what many Zenners are trying to yoke themselves to. Their "true self," which is rhetorically the "womb" or "matrix" (garbha) that brings forth the Tathāgata. This isn't "my kind" of Buddhism, but I'm vaguely familiar with it.
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I don't have to find Self. I am self!Pondera wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 7:25 amA lot of people are most afraid of how they’ll be judged. For a lot of people the ego is easily bruised.
One benefit of practice is gratitude. By gratitude we overcome the ego.
Without it we are still children colouring pictures for mommy to look at and put on the fridge.
For some, that colouring is the extent of their meditation and their insight. And for some, that is what they are waiting for others to praise.
But - it’s like that at the beginning for everyone. Luckily one may reach a stage in meditation where they no longer need others as a source of confirmation, praise, acknowledgement, “intellectual erections”.I see no wrong with Buddha Dhamma. For a collection of words and sayings that cover volumes and volumes of pages, it is quite interesting to note that it has fewer internal contradictions than the whole of the New Testament (a body of words and sayings that can be read in a few days).Disputing and pointing out clear wrongs are two wholly different things.
Pointing out wrong is done from a position of certainty and strength.
Are you implying a certain falsehood in the Buddha Dhamma?Defending clear falsehood is done from fear.
It's relatively easy to spot a discussion from fear and a discussion from strength.
Is it the teaching of annica? I see no problem with how the Buddha formulated this teaching or the respective purpose it serves in meditative achievement.
Aren’t you some kind of Zen practitioner? Do you find Self in that “zero” you attempt to anchor your mind to?
Anything contrary to self is incoherent.
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You have a lot of faith and belief in your system of verbal expression.SteRo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:17 pmFor some science may be a belief system. For me it's just a system of verbal expression.Zenny wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:57 pmScience is a belief system. Only the unaware think otherwise.SteRo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 5:47 am
Science as system of thought is a mental phenomenon, yes, but it isn't necessarily a belief system.
If the expressions of the thoughts that happen to me appear "bizarre and incoherent" to you then these appearances also are a mental phenomena which may be believed by you or not.
But I don't want to further converse about all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us depending on earlier conditionings. Since there is no criterion for truth no truth can be found in either "science" or all the countless thought associations in the context of the concept "science" that may happen to us. Nevertheless I appreciate the progress science has brought about although no truth can be found in it.
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