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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 332
Re: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
Does it still make sense to practice a religion that is thousands of years old? A religion developed by people before modern science, modern medicine and industrialization? Is it still practical to practice buddhism (traditional buddhism) today? This is not an attack on the dharma. Would like to he...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 735
Re: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
'When all the brittle twigs of what is known Are burned, peace comes – the Victor’s dharma form. And then there is no birth and no decay, The mind will cease, the kāya manifest.' ( Madhyamakāvatāra 11.17 ) 'Dharmakaya is all-pervading emptiness' (Jewel Ornament of Liberation, p 50) 'Dharmakaya is m...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 735
Re: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
I have read some confusing (to me at least) claims about the Dharmakaya . Some say that the Dharmakaya, as a Buddha-Body, is not God and not a god. Yet it seems to share certain attributes with the classical Godhead inasmuch as it is the font of unconditional compassion and unhindered "Light&q...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
- Replies: 10
- Views: 735
The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
I have read some confusing (to me at least) claims about the Dharmakaya . Some say that the Dharmakaya, as a Buddha-Body, is not God and not a god. Yet it seems to share certain attributes with the classical Godhead inasmuch as it is the font of unconditional compassion and unhindered "Light&qu...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:13 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16782
Re: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
According to Wisdom Library: "In the Guna Karanda Vyuha it is written: 'When nothing else was, Sambhu was: that is the Self-Existent (svayambhu): and as he was before all, he is also called Adi-Buddha.' The first system of Adi-Buddha was set up in Nepal by a theistic school called Aisvarika, b...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:50 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16782
Re: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
According to Wisdom Library: "In the Guna Karanda Vyuha it is written: 'When nothing else was, Sambhu was: that is the Self-Existent (svayambhu): and as he was before all, he is also called Adi-Buddha.' The first system of Adi-Buddha was set up in Nepal by a theistic school called Aisvarika, b...
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 3:45 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Prolepsis—being an equal of the Buddha—possible steps towards reconciling modernists and traditionalists
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2523
Re: Prolepsis—being an equal of the Buddha—possible steps towards reconciling modernists and traditionalists
The answer to this can only be yes, one is born in this life and the next life. From my non-scholarly and admittedly narrow reading on the subject, I agree. There seem to be no contradictions, at least no insurmountable ones. To borrow from the Christian paradigm: for Christians, salvation is both ...
- Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Dharmakaya Body View
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3204
Re: Dharmakaya Body View
What exactly is the Dharmakaya Body. Is it actually a Body , seeing the Nirmanakaya is a Body that never leaves the Pure Land of A Buddha the Sambhogakaya Body, is flesh. Although i would suspect the physiology of it is vastly different from the average human. In terms of the chakras and developmen...
- Sat May 08, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5117
Re: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
How, in your minds, would you personally distinguish upaya on the part of Amida-sama from mere self-powered "auxiliary practice?" For example, I have a longstanding devotion to Kannon Bosatsu, predating my study of Shinshu. To what extent, in your opinions, should I honestly view this dev...
- Sat May 08, 2021 7:52 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5117
Re: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
How, in your minds, would you personally distinguish upaya on the part of Amida-sama from mere self-powered "auxiliary practice?" For example, I have a longstanding devotion to Kannon Bosatsu, predating my study of Shinshu. To what extent, in your opinions, should I honestly view this dev...
- Sat May 08, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Definition of music
- Replies: 7
- Views: 693
Re: Definition of music
Ability to distinguish between high and low tones (Ptolemy, 100–178 et seq.). The science of melody and related matters (Aristides Quintilianus, c. 200s et al.). The doctrine of numbers and their relations (Cassiodorus, c. 490-585). Ars recte cantendi, ability to play correctly (unknown, medieval)....
- Sat May 08, 2021 5:20 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5117
Re: Amida works in this world to help mature our faith
"According to one's wishes" [in the passage which says "Amida's transcendent powers are unhindered; they work everywhere according to one's wishes"] has two meanings: first, Amida saves all sentient beings according to their wishes; second, according to Amida's wishes, he observ...
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:31 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Jodo Wasan
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10016
- Wed May 05, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Jodo Wasan
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10016
Re: Jodo Wasan
Amida's self-benefit and benefit of others have been perfectly fulfilled as the Pure Land, The compassionate means skillfully adorned to lead us to take refuge. It cannot be grasped by the mind or by words, So take refuge in the Honoured-one beyond conceptual understanding. Jodo Wasan 37 https://ww...
- Wed May 05, 2021 4:26 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: New Book by Rev. Cirlea
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2204
New Book by Rev. Cirlea
Rev. Josho Adrian Cirlea has just published a new book - his autobiography.
For those interested, it is available via his Amidaji website and Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cirlea+path+ ... nb_sb_noss
For those interested, it is available via his Amidaji website and Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cirlea+path+ ... nb_sb_noss
- Sat May 01, 2021 4:23 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8226
Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
It is shaky to rely on śrāvakayāna accounts of awakening for establishing a Mahāyāna, let alone Shin, account of Śākyamuni's awakening. <snipped> Ultimately, in Shin we see Śākyamuni as a manifestation of Amitābha Buddha. He is an aspect of Amitābha's Dharma Body as Compassionate Means, which gives...
- Sat May 01, 2021 3:03 am
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8226
Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
I'm well aware of the controversies between the "modernists" and those we might term "traditionalists." <snipped> :good: You know your stuff well. There were some Shingon-shu theorists (Kakukai) who postulated attainment of the Pure Land (and perhaps subsequent enlightenment) in...
- Sat May 01, 2021 2:19 am
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8226
Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
I'm only quibbling with the false notion, prevalent among some "Modernist" Shin teachers and lay people, that we now have the Buddha's enlightened Mind, as if by receiving Shinjin, we ourselves are now enlightened in this life - as if Shinjin is, in this life, equivalent to Nirvana. Our t...
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:45 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8226
Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
That's a stretch to go from mokṣa, release, usually rendered "liberation," to "giving up personal effort" on the path. ... <snip> ... which they had already reached. The term “fermentation” is also translated “canker” or “outflow”. It refers to having an afflicted relationship w...
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm
- Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
- Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8226
Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
That's a stretch to go from mokṣa, release, usually rendered "liberation," to "giving up personal effort" on the path. Okay - thanks for your input. It may, as you said, be a stretch, I don't know, but it seems to me that letting go of all those "fermentations" has to ...