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by steveb1
Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:16 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
Replies: 10
Views: 720

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...
by steveb1
Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
Replies: 10
Views: 720

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...
by steveb1
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: The Dharmakaya in Mahayana
Replies: 10
Views: 720

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...
by steveb1
Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:13 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
Replies: 36
Views: 16759

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...
by steveb1
Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:50 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Origin & Development of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara, Vajrasattva, and Samantabhadra?
Replies: 36
Views: 16759

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...
by steveb1
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: 2516

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 ...
by steveb1
Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:24 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dharmakaya Body View
Replies: 41
Views: 3184

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...
by steveb1
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: 5106

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...
by steveb1
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: 5106

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...
by steveb1
Sat May 08, 2021 5:25 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Definition of music
Replies: 7
Views: 689

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)....
by steveb1
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: 5106

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...
by steveb1
Wed May 05, 2021 10:31 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Jodo Wasan
Replies: 25
Views: 9988

Re: Jodo Wasan

AJP wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:21 pm Amida’s got our backs
Well said!
by steveb1
Wed May 05, 2021 8:05 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Jodo Wasan
Replies: 25
Views: 9988

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...
by steveb1
Wed May 05, 2021 4:26 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: New Book by Rev. Cirlea
Replies: 0
Views: 2197

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
by steveb1
Sat May 01, 2021 4:23 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

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...
by steveb1
Sat May 01, 2021 3:03 am
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

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...
by steveb1
Sat May 01, 2021 2:19 am
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

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...
by steveb1
Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:45 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

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...
by steveb1
Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:36 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

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 ...
by steveb1
Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:35 pm
Forum: Jodo Shin Shu
Topic: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin
Replies: 22
Views: 8219

Re: Dennis Hirota on Shinjin

Where? When speaking of the third watch of the night of His enlightenment, He indicates His release from "fermentations" and relief from stress, which new condition He counts as enlightened knowledge - [WIth my mind] attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the endi...

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