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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Rebirth in the past
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1744
Re: Rebirth in the past
What is the use of eating food or paying your rent and paying your your debts, because they exist only conventionally? Explain what difference “only conventionally” makes. What’s the use of feeling hungry conventionally? You are purposefully forgetting the original claim to which I was replying. Th...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Rebirth in the past
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1744
Re: Rebirth in the past
"Tibetan beliefs" include the works of Nagarjuna. There is a whole chapter in his Mula Madhyamaka Karika devoted to refuting truly existing time, which quite short and worth reading. The great tibetan scholar TsongKhapa has written a commentary on the Mula Madhyamaka Karika, which is call...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Rebirth in the past
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1744
Re: Rebirth in the past
Thank you, everybody (especially Kim and Rick), for your thoughtful replies. Please note that the key part of my posting is "Is this based on any actual Tibetan beliefs? " Best regards, MarWes "Tibetan beliefs" include the works of Nagarjuna. There is a whole chapter in his Mula...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1769
Re: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
One of my all time favorite quotes regarding non-self. :smile: To understand not-self, you have to meditate. If you only intellectualize, your head will explode. Once you understand not-self in your heart, the burden of life will be lifted. Your family life, your work, everything will be much easier...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2089
Re: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
Speaking as moderator here; dharmawheel cannot offer medical/mental health advise. I suggest you would likely be well served by consulting with a doctor with respect to sleep and a teacher with respect to meditation. Personally I have found that isolated do-it-yourself efforts are not productive in...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Online or in person Sangha
- Replies: 8
- Views: 640
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:13 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Avici hell karma
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1247
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Ignorance in a practical sense
- Replies: 63
- Views: 2961
Re: Ignorance in a practical sense
Hello, as topic suggest, what is ignorance in a practical sense? If it is a quality or a group of qualities, are there some qualities which are the exact opposite? I don't want to hear that the only solution to ignorance is enlightenment, that is ultimately true, but I want to know the relative tru...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
- Replies: 171
- Views: 6767
Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
"To understand not-self, you have to meditate. If you only intellectualize, your head will explode." ~Ajahn Chah: A Still Forest Pool. My all time favorite quote regarding non-self. :lol: Isn't the point to make your head figuratively explode? Isn't the teaching having its intended effect...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
- Replies: 171
- Views: 6767
Re: Anātman, the Buddhist Doctrine of No-Self
"To understand not-self, you have to meditate. If you only intellectualize, your head will explode." ~Ajahn Chah: A Still Forest Pool.
My all time favorite quote regarding non-self.
My all time favorite quote regarding non-self.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Looking for Zen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 720
Re: Looking for Zen
Looks like there are more than 20 places in PA.
http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/search.ph ... D=mahayana
http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/search.ph ... D=mahayana
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen less intense than Zen?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2336
Re: Is Dzogchen less intense than Zen?
FWIW, I've been practicing zen almost 30 years, have met a bunch of teachers but have never had one shout or scream. The "hard style" type of training that happens at Eiheiji Temple in Japan is not typical of most zen centers in the west. Zen is not inherently intense. It can be hard, like...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:50 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: anyone knows where I can find buddhist mentors?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 760
Re: anyone knows where I can find buddhist mentors?
Lots of the time they are at the local Buddhist temple or center, if there is one nearby. Even if there isn't, less frequent visits to some temples further away are still good.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
If it was easy to work out what was going on with the meme I shared in the OP then I wouldn't have needed to share it and ask. Its similarlity to authentic practice is precisely what makes it troublesome to pick apart and problematic to people who might need some self-care. That's why I like the id...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 3:31 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
For example, Thich Nhat Hanh’s “abundance” is referring to an inner wealth of happiness, satisfaction and peace. In most new age and wellness circles, “abundance” is referring to external, material wealth and the satisfaction brought about by not being poor. Eg. Having a good job that pays a lot of...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:52 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
Do you know much about contemporary new age thought? Overlooking statements like those is to completely miss context, it’s not just a general statement about compassion, due to the inclusion of “manifesting wellness” type language, which is a pretty specific thing in this day and age. Focusing all ...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:18 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
And to trust your intuition, and that doing this will “make an amazingly good world of wellness and abundance unfold with ease”..etc. I have a decent nose for the overall message because I’m around this stuff regularly. Like I said, I don’t think it’s terrible compared to lots of other stuff out th...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
I don’t think I’m being too charitable. I just don’t think Facebook posts should be, or are intended to be, dissected with a fine tooth comb word for word, like it’s some kind of doctoral dissertation. It’s a Facebook post. And what’s the message? The message is you should show compassion to yourse...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
I don’t think I’m being too charitable. I just don’t think Facebook posts should be, or are intended to be, dissected with a fine tooth comb word for word, like it’s some kind of doctoral dissertation. It’s a Facebook post. And what’s the message? The message is you should show compassion to yoursel...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Self-care or just selfishness?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5574
Re: Self-care or just selfishness?
As someone who is (at least theoretically) aiming for compassion to all beings and (perhaps more relevantly) has been a teacher for decades, I'm somewhat concerned by the direct effect of the advice on the struggling person who tries to put it into practice. To the extent that it encourages unreali...