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by Mag761138
Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:18 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Autism
Replies: 163
Views: 46064

Re: Autism

Many religions and ideologies are sometimes expressed in ways that do not respect disabled people, Buddhism is sometimes no different. Seeing disability as merely a failure of an individual, and not as a unique set of circumstances that society and other individuals can learn from and utilize, is a ...
by Mag761138
Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Desire & Attachment Beginner HELP! Insight needed...
Replies: 15
Views: 3331

Re: Desire & Attachment Beginner HELP! Insight needed...

Desire and clinging are bad but how about desiring non-clinging or clinging to non-desiring? This is very difficult and counter-intuitive but ultimately openness and acceptance are what is needed. It's so hard because the tendency as part of our biology is to be very judgemental and critical, consta...
by Mag761138
Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:52 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?
Replies: 124
Views: 25816

Re: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?

There is no "my mental continuum" or "your mental continuum", there's just a mental continuum. If you accept that there is a mental continuum, and you accept that mental continuum is afflicted, you have a sufficient basis for accepting rebirth without any need to imagine an inte...
by Mag761138
Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?
Replies: 124
Views: 25816

Re: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?

We can say somebody dies of cancer due to defective genes. The problem comes when you wonder why that particular somebody has those particular genes instead of you. But, if we are aware that this whole self-other dichotomy is not absolute, then the above is nonsensical. There is no "my mental ...
by Mag761138
Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:56 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?
Replies: 124
Views: 25816

Re: Reincarnation: A gift or a curse?

"Dharma Lite" Versus "The Real Thing" Dharma http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/introduction/dharma_lite.html "Without that, then it makes very little sense of why a great practitioner dies a horrible cancer type of death, or why Tibetan lama...

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