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by undefineable
Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:13 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Some doubts regarding rebirth
Replies: 88
Views: 4234

Re: Some doubts regarding rebirth

But as for an opinion, awareness and awareness-of as illusory experience generated on the basis of evolutionary advantage seems fine to me. That's the thing with opinions - Everyone who takes ideas seriously, along with most who don't, has some emotional need to reach some particular conclusion, an...
by undefineable
Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:09 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Some doubts regarding rebirth
Replies: 88
Views: 4234

Re: Some doubts regarding rebirth

These conversations always seem to carry on at crossed purposes. Something a lot of people miss is that when consciousness and awareness are being discussed independently of any notion of souls or spirits, the whole question of what grounds such basic things is, or should be, moot to begin with - Th...
by undefineable
Sat May 28, 2022 2:07 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Is love an illusion?
Replies: 98
Views: 6720

Re: Is love an illusion?

Your view that your birth was unkindly thrust upon you disregards the Buddhist understanding of rebirth. Or it might wind up at Dukkha Satya, beginningless Ignorance, and the rest... You complain that your mother doesn't actually love you because she has her own views and ideas about what you could...
by undefineable
Sat May 28, 2022 1:50 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Is love an illusion?
Replies: 98
Views: 6720

Re: Is love an illusion?

others also correctly downplayed the negativity of a rando saying "You don't love *Them* you just love a 'thing' about them" -- on the surface and I would say in the depth of it that is simply conflict-for-no-purpose, i,e., just a mistaken way of viewing; or at worst, nihilism. This is an...
by undefineable
Fri May 27, 2022 2:46 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Is the alaya vijnana outside of spacetime?
Replies: 9
Views: 662

Re: Is the alaya vijnana outside of spacetime?

Alaya vijnana is the storage house for countless of karmic seeds that are yet to ripen and new seeds are added to that consciousness constantly after each action, mentally or physically. So as a whole, its momentarily, ever changing and never the same. Thats why its not permanent. Yes, that's rough...
by undefineable
Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Can you conceive of a scenario where it turns out Nagarjuna was wrong (ex: not all things are empty, or otherwise)?
Replies: 101
Views: 55313

Re: Can you conceive of a scenario where it turns out Nagarjuna was wrong (ex: not all things are empty, or otherwise)?

Can you conceive of, or agree that someone else could conceive of a hypothetical scenario where dependent origination, emptiness, etc. are entirely false and disproven? You might not end up with that broad a range of views here 😉 Perhaps you're asking the wrong question, since many mystical traditi...
by undefineable
Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:47 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Where did the Buddha go after death? Where is the Buddha now? Where do Buddhas go after death?
Replies: 14
Views: 893

Re: Where did the Buddha go after death? Where is the Buddha now? Where do Buddhas go after death?

It's accepted that Buddhas' mindstreams no longer take rebirth. Is their postmortem fate, then, actually the same as the one assigned to everyone by western materialism? The Buddha's fire parable, in which he asks his questioner where he thinks a fire has gone after being put out, may back this up. ...
by undefineable
Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:08 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Awareness, and consciousness, (rig pa) ... oh my!
Replies: 54
Views: 30987

Re: Awareness, and consciousness, (rig pa) ... oh my!

Sounds like the same thing doing different stuff on different modes of operation, and appearing to different extents...
by undefineable
Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:11 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: video of Brunnhölzl: Buddha Nature as a radical teaching
Replies: 118
Views: 61080

Re: video of Brunnhölzl: Buddha Nature as a radical teaching

Buddhanature is not a possession. Per Higgins, Mikyo Dorje's whole point is that deluded mind doesn't become pure mind--- rather, once, the impure mind is destroyed, only the pure mind remains. So it is not that the alayavijnana is a deluded tathagatgarbha, but rather the alayavijnana IS the delusi...
by undefineable
Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:17 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Not sure where to go
Replies: 117
Views: 14150

Re: Not sure where to go

No in the sense that it didn't do anything at all. I'd guessed that was your more-moderate-meditation 'mileage'. I get where you're coming from, and I could say more, but I don't know you or the dharma well enough to hash this one out in any meaningful way. my ego isn't concerned with experience Yo...
by undefineable
Sat Nov 13, 2021 12:12 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 11568

Re: Question about awareness

Inept is enough, regarding phyics, can be alsos dangerous if you intend to manage a nuclear plant or just pretend to fix a power line at home (all these watts, ohms, ampere, I don't give a , just let me do, no emoji for lightning) Fear not - I've no plans on ever -literally ever- going tantric :P Y...
by undefineable
Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:59 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 11568

Re: Question about awareness

Awareness is a function of being conscious. If you are not conscious, you are not aware. The dharma has very precise language with which we discuss the mind and its functions. It's called abhidharma. If people do not ground their discussions of dharma in vinaya, sūtra, or abhidharma, they are just ...
by undefineable
Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:05 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 11568

Re: Question about awareness

Vis a vis reality, wouldn't it be more correct to say that the aggregates insinuate themselves[?!] as objects of awareness, but that awareness arises with them and centers itself within the ones mentioned? This would apply to any level of maturation of/within awareness presumably... I'm not sure wha...
by undefineable
Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Question about awareness
Replies: 82
Views: 11568

Re: Question about awareness

Malcolm wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:04 pm
PadmaVonSamba wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:04 pm Awareness is absolute.
Part of the aggregates or different?
Does it make a difference?

This would be meta-awareness-oriented in any case wouldn't it?
by undefineable
Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:56 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: If there's no self, why does karma matter?
Replies: 27
Views: 1548

Re: If there's no self, why does karma matter?

Without the self/person, why does karma matter? Upon rebirth, how does this karma connect or transfer to that new person? Isn't that unfair? How does it even connect the previous person's karma to the reborn person? It's because there is no self that there is karma. Karma is unfair because most neg...
by undefineable
Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:51 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Did I abandon the Dharma?
Replies: 7
Views: 956

Re: Did I abandon the Dharma?

If you talk to an artist or writer, very often they will walk away from the painting or the book they are writing, sometimes for very long periods, and then they come back to it. Likewise, in battle, sometimes it is necessary to go into retreat. It’s not abandoning anything. It’s how we really-adju...
by undefineable
Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:05 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?
Replies: 289
Views: 18484

Re: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?

Buddhism makes the definite ontological claim that only appearances are real. I’ve never seen such a claim. That's because I made a mistake in wording, as explained. I could equally have overshot in the other direction in trying to support my point, and said "claim[s] *nothing* is real", ...
by undefineable
Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:04 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?
Replies: 289
Views: 18484

Re: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?

give some examples of where suñata doesn’t apply. I don't believe there are any. But that's just a hunch, based on limited understanding and insight as set against limited experience and knowledge of a total set of objects {of consciousness} encountered. There's nothing there to which I'd be wary o...
by undefineable
Mon Nov 08, 2021 4:32 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?
Replies: 289
Views: 18484

Re: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?

Post edited. The principle of suñata is only “Buddhist” because some guy called the Buddha happened to point out the fact of it, which can actually be determined by anyone. You might as well say that gravity is only a belief held by Newtonists. Maybe it's more like knowing how to prove the nature of...
by undefineable
Mon Nov 08, 2021 4:14 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?
Replies: 289
Views: 18484

Re: I'm confused about Buddhist arguments against a creator God and what that entails for buddha activity?

anything identified as a substrate can be reduced infinitely into smaller components. Not in principle. Yes, by the principle that all phenomena are composed of aggregates. What “substrate” cannot be reduced to components? Your principle is Buddhist, rather than the broader philosophical one that I...

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