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- Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:21 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: animal liberation
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8332
Re: animal liberation
Aye yai yai! :crazy: Every so often these news stories pop up again and again. Actually, quite regularly... Why aren't more Buddhist leaders speaking out about this? From the latest: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/wildlife-watch-mercy-release-buddhist-china-illegal-trade/ But according t...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:19 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Story: Falling Beads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2055
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:35 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Story: Falling Beads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2055
Story: Falling Beads
Is anyone familiar with a story of beads falling from the sky and a person attempting to pick them all up, but the more they pick up the more they drop as they overflow? One can imagine the moral of the story, but I don't remember the details and can't find it.
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:26 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Heart Sutra question
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9397
Re: Heart Sutra question
I think we lost Bonsai Doug...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:20 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Heart Sutra question
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9397
Re: Heart Sutra question
In Sunyata, there is no abandon. If you abandon, you just dont get what sunyata is. A good prescription for rebirth in the lower realms. How so? The meaning is that in śūnyatā there is "nothing" to be abandoned, and to hold that there is something to abandon is to necessarily partake of t...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Heart Sutra question
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9397
Re: Heart Sutra question
That's pretty rude. Who and what are you even talking about?Jnana wrote:Sorry peeps, but this isn't the pseudo-zen bullshit forum.
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:09 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Heart Sutra question
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9397
Re: Heart Sutra question
My readings/study are primarily Theravada. But I try not to limit myself, and appreciate other traditions. The Heart Sutra may be short, but it's a tough one to understand. For example, in all the things that are negated in that sutra, it seems to me that it also negates the Four Noble Truths and t...
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:32 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Please Identify
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4701
Re: Please Identify
I can't see it. It seems a broke img code.
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:13 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
- Replies: 240
- Views: 45303
Re: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
What real, hard evidence is there that bodhisattvas exist, that enlightenment is possibility or that rebirth can happen either? In my experience, many skeptical doubts I've had concerning the very things of bodhisattvas, rebirth etc., were erased when I studied these things and realized they weren'...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:35 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Can foreigners ordain in China?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5110
Re: Can foreigners ordain in China?
Thanks. I "learned" something too! (I thought you were originally American..?)Huifeng wrote:Sorry, by "few" I was thinking "no more than a few dozen". Again, relative to other traditions.
As for abbotcy - thank you, learnt something new today.
~~ Huifeng
- Wed May 30, 2012 5:45 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Can foreigners ordain in China?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5110
Re: Can foreigners ordain in China?
The basic reason is that non citizens cannot study at Buddhist colleges there, and in a way, really can't even live in the monasteries in the same way as the monastics (would have to be in a separate guest house, or equivalent). That's odd... How many do you count? <-- not a rhetorical question, I ...
- Tue May 29, 2012 6:06 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Can foreigners ordain in China?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5110
Re: Can foreigners ordain in China?
Lately I've seen some pictures of both black and white monks in China. I know a lot of them actually ordain in Taiwan, and may perhaps go to the mainland. But I wonder if it is possible for a foreigner to ordain in mainland China and continue a monastic life there. Might anyone know? I suspect they...
- Mon May 28, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Is taking medication a sin?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3466
Re: Is taking medication a sin?
Knotty Veneer wrote:Only if it doesn't belong to youIs taking medication a sin?
- Sat May 26, 2012 6:41 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Server Error
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1389
Server Error
Not sure if it's just me (I'm in China), but sometimes while navigating the site I get an error screen saying "no data received" because the server sent no data, which sounds like an overload. Reloading the pages later, or coming in through another page will get it going again. But this ha...
- Mon May 21, 2012 7:24 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: dharma ending age?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7326
Re: dharma ending age?
Christianity mainly has only one book, yet look at how many different sects there are that interpret the same words in vastly different ways. Dharma ending does not have to mean texts disappear, but their interpretation and practice can become quite different than initially intended. In other words,...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:00 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Can foreigners ordain in China?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5110
Can foreigners ordain in China?
Lately I've seen some pictures of both black and white monks in China. I know a lot of them actually ordain in Taiwan, and may perhaps go to the mainland. But I wonder if it is possible for a foreigner to ordain in mainland China and continue a monastic life there. Might anyone know? I suspect they ...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:29 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My cat suffered a stroke today
- Replies: 94
- Views: 16835
Re: My cat suffered a stroke today
How am I not responding to you in this discussion? How are my posts more ignorant? They seem to be talking to what you've talked about, and I quote what I'm responding to you in your messages. Not quite sure where your confusion is coming from. Because you keep arguing against things I've never sai...
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:48 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My cat suffered a stroke today
- Replies: 94
- Views: 16835
Re: My cat suffered a stroke today
Plenty of Christians make the same kind of claims about their creator god, their direct experience of him and scores of others who claim the same experience. They also have NDE case studies to support their theory. Is that valid knowledge? What makes your case different? :namaste: hahaha come on ma...
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:31 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Dorje Chang Buddha III
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10955
Re: Dorje Chang Buddha III
Saw him on one of those Buddhist Cult listings years ago.
Here's another website with such listings: Buddhist Cults
Also "How to Spot a Buddhist Cult".
Here's another website with such listings: Buddhist Cults
Also "How to Spot a Buddhist Cult".
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:07 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My cat suffered a stroke today
- Replies: 94
- Views: 16835
Re: My cat suffered a stroke today
Just giving you the benefit of the doubt that everything you've tried to explain in your last post is what you originally meant in the earlier post-- then you are still claiming that direct experience is the only form of valid knowledge. Of course I am not. I have always said "claims of knowin...