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- Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
I don't personally have an aversion to science. I just wish scientists would develop a sense of ethics in terms of forseeing the destructive, commonly military applications of their research. But that's just my green party bias coming through. And to ensure that doesn't happen, Israelis' secret for...
- Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:50 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
Oh, I thought you had given up, nevertheless nice to see you are trying so hard again.......hmmm interesting....lets continue, should we? my point was very simple: physics & its worldviews are rapidly changing. kai objects, claiming that physics changes incrementally only. i claim physics is in ...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:48 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Dzogchen cosmogeny
http://hotnerdgirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/double-facepalm1.jpg :shrug: :shrug: Can't help it, many people have a strange aversion towards science these days after giving all sorts of excuse and strange reasoning for not learning it properly and then (not surprisingly) prefer mysterious creatio...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:33 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Dzogchen cosmogeny
And physics are not in upheaval, quantum theory and relativity are greatly accepted by almost all scientists in the world, quantum theory is accepted because it works, but it is not understood by a long shot. Even Feynman famously said "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum ...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Buddhism and the state of our world
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2141
Re: Buddhism and the state of our world
I was having an argument with someone VIA a news-websites comment section, which the question "On Iran: How far is too far" was asked, meaning the recent assassination of one of their nuclear scientists. He argued that preemptive violence in order to save many lives, is moral --- I know, ...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:01 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Dzogchen cosmogeny
False. Scientific models for our cosmos has not been changing for decades, so the minor details are still in debates. I don't know where you got the "rapidly changing" part but it do seem that you seldom get in touch with scientific development. As for religious models, they never change,...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:33 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Re: Dzogchen cosmogeny
Buddhism is not incredibly interested in cosmological theories or creation mythologies except that it has all that stuff in spades, as we are seeing. Interesting stories and insight into the ancient thought, thats all...... If you want an even more accurate ones, you can look them up in the latest ...
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:27 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ancient and Modern Cosmology
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5082
Ancient and Modern Cosmology
thats not fair. i am asking honest questions and expressing my perplexity with some aspects of this creation story. i don't see how anyone could not experience some perplexity with this story. your explanations are very clear and appreciated, but that doesn't mean its something to be just swallowed...
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: The Adi Buddha
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3478
Re: The Adi Buddha
Not only Kalachakra..........Cakrasaṃvara = Vajradhara = Adi BuddhaWill wrote:Kalachakra system also has Adi Buddha; not sure if it is identical to Dzogchen version or not.
In fact, many yidams presented in the HYT are depicted as the Sambhogakaya form of the Adi Buddha.
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:50 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32302
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Fusion has been in the works for decades and nobody has produced a system that actually generates more power than what goes into it. Under the constant pressure of various oil companies (Who love more money and apparently see the development of nuclear fusion as a threat) and the political plays of...
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:32 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: The individual in dzogchen, independence, dharmakaya
- Replies: 121
- Views: 20392
Re: The individual in dzogchen, independence, dharmakaya
For you things may be inseparable or whatever but that does not mean that everything you see possesses dharmakaya. The conclusion of this idea could be that a rock could get enlightened too for example. Ooooohhhh, you will be surprised. I had been hearing from Zen people that trees, grass and stone...
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:18 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Matter in Deva realms and the hell realms ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3215
Re: Matter in Deva realms and the hell realms ?
Really? I thought no one knew what dark energy and dark matter was made of? I did hear one theory that dark matter are planets and the like without any stars near by. Dark matter are generally theorized to be just ultra micro objects like neutrinos and the other leptons, not macro objects like plan...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Mahamudra : What do you plan to do after ngondro?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17457
Re: Mahamudra : What do you plan to do after ngondro?
More ngondro.........in a way, there is no escape as ngondro is inbuilt into many deity sadhanas and the preliminary portions of most generation stage practices. It has great benefits as well. Which Buddhists, in the world, don't want more merits? Dzogchenpas? :tongue: Well, you need merits to enco...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:07 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Mahāmudrā & Dzogchen
- Replies: 227
- Views: 81757
Re: Mahāmudrā & Dzogchen
Thats a strictly Sakya view. Nope, it is view of the Samputa tantra. Okay but even so, over the centuries, it can be easily seen that there are varying interpretations of specific tantras by each of the four traditions. If even clear tantras like the Shri Kalachakra tantra and its stainless light c...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:24 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: commonalities and divergences between traditions...
- Replies: 85
- Views: 16607
Re: commonalities and divergences between traditions...
I am least interested in any kind of Pure Land practice or thought for the simple reason it strikes me as escapism and inappropriate for serious bodhisattva aspirants. It offers a great alternative for ex theists especially from Christianity. It is also sufficiently pragmatic and simple for practit...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:15 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Matter in Deva realms and the hell realms ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3215
Re: Matter in Deva realms and the hell realms ?
I have read lately three or four books on astronomy, astronomers have calculated that there must be much more mass in the universe than is seen. This missing mass is called "dark matter". I suggest a buddhist explanation for the unseen matter: it is what makes up the lower and higher real...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Mahamudra : What do you plan to do after ngondro?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17457
Re: Mahamudra : What do you plan to do after ngondro?
For the Mahamudra practitioners here : what are your plans after ngondro? There is such a bewildering array of possibilities to choose from (or be instructed in), what do you intend to follow, and why? More ngondro.........in a way, there is no escape as ngondro is inbuilt into many deity sadhanas ...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:00 pm
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Mahāmudrā & Dzogchen
- Replies: 227
- Views: 81757
Re: Mahāmudrā & Dzogchen
No, not really, because sutrayāna practice will not result in the realization of the 13th bhumi. The state of mahāmudra and the thirteenth bhumi are synonymous. The name of thirteenth bhumi, much less, mahāmudra, does not exist in sutra and is not really even hinted it. N Thats a strictly Sakya vie...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:46 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Chatting About Astrology
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4067
Re: Chatting About Astrology
I'm not sure about that......I'm a Virgo that argued with almost all the Virgos around here. Hell, most Virgos disagree with one another on many stuffs.Virgo wrote: We need Virgos.
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:20 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Dealing with Christian Fundamentalists
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9137
Re: Dealing with Christian Fundamentalists
"Stephen Hawking is a flake", :rolling: :rolling: Man, she needs help..............fast.......... "I know there is a God" and so on. She likes to throw out challenging questions like "What has Buddha got that Jesus doesn't?", and "Why would anyone choose Buddhism?...