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- Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:21 am
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: For Madam C
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1519
For Madam C
My heartfelt gratitude, Madam C. You had a hard life but with filial children and now a quiet passing.
May the Three Sages grant you a lotus seat in Sukhavati and swiftly attain anuttara samyak sambodhi for all parent sentient beings!
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:58 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Analysis or Nothing
- Replies: 265
- Views: 36127
Re: Analysis or Nothing
So why not look into the veracity of that claim? Sure, no problem. But Astus, let's come down to us, the level of non-Sages, unlike those you quoted: how many Buddhists and their teachers actually engage in analysis as recommended by the texts and teachers that you quote in here? And to what extent...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:32 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Is Buddhism too hard ?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6493
Re: Is Buddhism too hard ?
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition here! Hey, neither did I back when I first signed up here years ago, just going with the flow man. Stay a bit longer and you will see... Yeah, the Spanish thingy was bad but I can't afford to ignore what Luther and the Reformation did who were just as bad ass...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:23 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Analysis or Nothing
- Replies: 265
- Views: 36127
Re: Analysis or Nothing
So, analysis serves no purpose, we are to seek a guru? Is that the point? Kind of makes having the need for an internet forum moot, doesn't it? Well, the gist as below confirms your point isn't it, after 4 pages? You have to receive them from a guru. Then you will understand. Until that point, ther...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:57 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Is Buddhism too hard ?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6493
Re: Is Buddhism too hard ?
They say there is hard in the easy & easy in the hard.Is Buddhism too hard ?
What is 'easy' and what is 'hard'? Training one's own mind to transcend duhkha or rolling around the triple burning worlds?
Think about it....
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:54 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Is Buddhism too hard ?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6493
Re: Is Buddhism too hard ?
Not all of Christianity is like that. The Catholics say that "faith without works is dead ". No, it wasn't. It was the Elder Apostle James in his Epistle. Centuries later, the infamous anti Semitic German heretic named Martin Luther coined his sola fide crap, wanted to purge the Epistle a...
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:29 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Slow server problems?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3314
Re: Slow server problems?
Why hello there Sara H and welcome back. Long time no see!
Yes, occasionally, it's slow even from my side when it comes to opening up DWM & DWT but I guess that's online samsara huh
Yes, occasionally, it's slow even from my side when it comes to opening up DWM & DWT but I guess that's online samsara huh
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:29 am
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Bardo for Theravada Buddhists
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8197
- Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:28 am
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Baby Kitty went to the heavens today!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2603
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:13 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: bless mala before use
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3232
Re: bless mala before use
There are other mantra for blessing the mala which do require transmission. Try to get at least one of these if you can. Every Lama knows at least one. They will multiply the effect of every mantra you say. Some practitioners only bless their malas during the first session of the day. Some bless th...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Blessed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Day
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4428
Re: Blessed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Wg8yowsxc Bowing Repentance rite of Avalokitesvara's 12 Vows at The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in California Today, the 19th Day/6th Lunar Month, 3rd August 2015, the Chinese Mahayana world celebrates the second of the tri-annual celebrations, the Enlightenment o...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: May be its time to ban discussion about Homosexuallity...
- Replies: 224
- Views: 36842
Re: May be its time to ban discussion about Homosexuallity..
So I guess what it boils down to is this: traditionally the institution of marriage is between one man and one woman, one man and one tree, one women and one fruit, several brothers and one women, several women and one man and so on. That reminds me of Mel Brooks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 10:55 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Anti-Tibetan Buddhism Signs
- Replies: 242
- Views: 55982
Re: Anti-Tibetan Buddhism Signs
Right...then there's Ra Lotsawa...Can a monk have sex? No. Full stop. End of discussion.
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:21 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Basic questions about Nichiren
- Replies: 84
- Views: 20690
Re: Basic questions about Nichiren
Good one rory, concise but a question remains, how sustainable is it for an average Joe or Jane for the "realizing Buddhahood in a single moment... especially when it's after the glow, comes the laundry to quote Kornfield...
plain and simple. Yes and no, I guess...
plain and simple. Yes and no, I guess...
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:14 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you get reborn as a deva/animal in Mahayana?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2566
Re: How do you get reborn as a deva/animal in Mahayana?
I guess 99.99% of humans are going to the lower planes. That's super depressing. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.102-113.than.html Really? Let's look at what the texts have to say about its causes and conditions... As Dighajanu (Tiger Paw) answered back then... not too differen...
- Tue Jul 14, 2015 5:03 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightened yet fat
- Replies: 93
- Views: 18557
Re: Enlightened yet fat
If these are of any use in here... Link PARABLE 047: FAULT-FINDING (GOOD SPIRITUAL ADVISOR) According to the Brahma Net and Avatamsaka Sutras, we should ignore appearances and external forms when seeking a good teacher. For example, we should disregard such traits as youth, poverty, low status or l...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:04 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Sexual and physical abuse in religious institutions
- Replies: 224
- Views: 38638
Re: Tibetan institutional religous violence
Children should not be placed in monasteries from the start. Religious education is one thing, but children need their parents. In my worthless opinion, It's not so straightforward as some would like it to be... Firstly, yes, in an ideal world, they should not. In a not so ideal world back then and...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:11 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: May be its time to ban discussion about Homosexuallity...
- Replies: 224
- Views: 36842
Re: May be its time to ban discussion about Homosexuallity..
Here's my worthless opinions... It will not help educate anyone, people have made up their mind. But there are others who may wish to be educated and access both sides of the debate. For those who 'have made up their minds', either way... One: There's no compulsion to read topics that's not conduciv...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:43 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: in need of support
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2812
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:39 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Sermon by 25th HBS Head Priest
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7612
Re: Sermon by 25th HBS Head Priest
I was just reading this the other day... Link I agree: it is difficult. I'd say that the highest percentage of disputes and moderation activities at boards like this (choosing my words carefully) involve misunderstandings of where those boundaries lie, and mismatched expectations of the same. Examp...