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- Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: super new... any guidance?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2525
Re: super new... any guidance?
Practice meditation and kindness, the rest will follow. Find a style of meditation that suits you. Further reading will support and strengthen your practice. Guidance from a teacher is useful early on and will become necessary further along the way, depending on how far you wish to go. I wish you al...
- Tue May 30, 2017 4:02 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5304
- Views: 890711
- Fri May 26, 2017 10:12 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Song Name Game
- Replies: 376
- Views: 87445
Re: Song Name Game
R.E.M. - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
- Fri May 26, 2017 4:49 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: TOS wishful thinking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5789
Re: TOS wishful thinking
Part of right speech is examining the motives for the thing's we say to others. So it really is in the TOS. Right speech is abstaining from lying, divisive speech, abusive speech, and from idle chatter. You don't need to examine your motivations in order to abstain from these things. You only need ...
- Fri May 26, 2017 1:42 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: TOS wishful thinking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5789
- Thu May 25, 2017 11:39 am
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
Hence my question, how do I know the relative ease in which I find I can 'just sit' is not some sort of self delusion and I am in fact wasting my time? A great question. From a Zen perspective, is there even an answer? I hope so! Otherwise thats more of a quandary that I am prepared to hold. At lea...
- Thu May 25, 2017 10:22 am
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
A great question. From a Zen perspective, is there even an answer?Zafutales wrote:Hence my question, how do I know the relative ease in which I find I can 'just sit' is not some sort of self delusion and I am in fact wasting my time?
- Wed May 24, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
Meido is definitely the one to listen to here.
Could the aspiration to benefit beings be a result of our practice, serving to further reinforce it?Meido wrote:If you are a Zen practitioner, you are certainly familiar with the Four Vows.
- Wed May 24, 2017 8:27 am
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
It may be useful to make a distiction between the concepts of 'reward' and 'result'. A reward brings personal fulfillment, whereas a result provides a broader benefit, even if just to indicate that our practice is valid. I think it is reasonable to expect results when we dedicate ourselves to a prac...
- Tue May 23, 2017 11:15 am
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
It takes 20-30 years of strenuous pratice without any results... common person cannot do it, that way. Please let's not go putting people off shikantaza practice with scary talk of how austere it is. I can vouch that it doesn't have to be strenuous and that results are forthcoming, and I am as comm...
- Mon May 22, 2017 11:40 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How can I be sure its valid
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14995
Re: How can I be sure its valid
Hello everyone First post here and I hope that you will be able to offer some assurances regarding my practice. I sit in Shikantaza, I have been practicing hard for some time now. I thought for a while that everything was going 'ok'. But I am now overwhelmed with doubts as to the validity of my pra...
- Mon May 22, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23042
Re: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
I like these explanations of Buddha nature given by Nonin, a teacher on Zen Forum International some years ago: Buddha Nature is the true, original nature of all beings -- awake, open, and undefiled by greed, hatred, and delusion. It is not a thing, but an original condition of all existence. So, al...
- Mon May 22, 2017 10:27 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23042
Re: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
that is exactly what I'm suggesting. Abandoning of hope can only be done when you see clearly that what you hope for IS the problem. It is a form of grasping, of making a concept into a reality by chasing it. When you see your own grasping, you will eventually see that it is causing you to feel ina...
- Mon May 22, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23042
Re: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
At some point, you have let these glimpses go because they will only take you in circles, give you hope, and continue the delusion extraordinaire. I will choose hope over confusion and despondency any day. I know them too well. You are assuming that if you subtract hope, you are left with confusion...
- Mon May 22, 2017 9:51 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23042
Re: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
why can't someone please just explain Buddha nature in terms that is simple. Some seem to imply they know something everyone else does not know and go on in debate whilst implying they know..without ever really even trying to explain it. It makes no sense to do this sort of thing. Here is the best ...
- Mon May 22, 2017 8:24 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
- Replies: 123
- Views: 23042
Re: The Six Paramitas and the Eightfold Path
I will choose hope over confusion and despondency any day. I know them too well.Anonymous X wrote:At some point, you have let these glimpses go because they will only take you in circles, give you hope, and continue the delusion extraordinaire.
- Mon May 22, 2017 2:41 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12162
Re: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
No, it was just another one of my unprimed thought-bombs thrown into a conversation.aflatun wrote:Thanks for clarifying, I thought you were objecting to aggregates arising and ceasing specifically as non zen
- Mon May 22, 2017 2:21 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12162
Re: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
:popcorn: Funny how Zen becomes unrecognisable in its own neighbourhood. Could you explain what you mean, for my edification? Only that (in my humble opinion) the spirit of Zen as a unique practice tradition is lost in the clamour of pan-Buddhist ideation. Or something. On a subforum dedicated to Z...
- Sun May 21, 2017 11:20 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Illuminating Quotes by Malcolm Namdrol-la
- Replies: 264
- Views: 98622
Re: Illuminating Quotes by Malcolm Namdrol-la
https://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 20#p388988When you've met a person, you can always spot them in a crowd. So it is with buddhanature.
- Sun May 21, 2017 11:12 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12162
Re: Freedom From Buddha Nature by Thanissaro Bhikkhu & Zen Master Dogen
Much respect to you, PuerAzaelis.