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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
I really don't think those guys know what their talking about. They look like tech workers. And outer appearances are everything, right? ;) https://youtu.be/cLwtdZSQXSU?feature=shared They get old country harsh sometimes. You are lucky that this isn't happening IRL, 'cause I would have stabbed you ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Not saying exclusively, do try to contain your disdain... ngak lineages have always been adjunct to teaching monasteries and there are many ordained in terma lineages where the terton was not ordained. You always are into us vs them and some imagined conflict or imagined special position. The Mahas...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1086
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1133
Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Apologies to everyone in this thread for my.......well, snootiness/annoying nature. Part of my internet 'tude stems from real-life stress recently. ANYWAYS I've been looking into this more (just to calm my own mind over the last couple days), and perhaps I've had the wrong take on the The Lotus Sut...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 573
Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
To follow the rules/example/practices of another caste.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:53 amSo, where does “…than to do another’s dharma” fit in?
In this specific case Arjuna would be doing another's dharma (a Brahmin's) if he were to (as a Kshatriya) refrain from taking life, which is part of his duty as a warrior king.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 573
Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
"It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one’s innate duties, a person does not incur sin." I love this quote, but it's hard for me to understand exactly what my dharma is since the world is different now a...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1086
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1133
Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Well first off, it's not Revelation[s]. If you ever meet someone talking about Revelation and they tack 's' to the end, they know so little about it that they mispronounce it.[ First of all, it is not Revelation or Revelations, the title is Η Αποκάλυψη του Ιωάννου (in modern Greek) and/or Ἀποκάλυψι...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1133
Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
...is equivalent to my former Christian self reading Revelation when compared to the rest of the New Testament. Just a quick aside: Revelations is an apocryphal text, this means that if you do not know what the symbolism is referencing, you cannot understand it. Once you know the symbolism, then it...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 6493
Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Let us say that it was part of ganachakra, what does that mean to you?
Let us say that it was not part of ganachakra, what does that mean to you?
Let us say that it was not part of ganachakra, what does that mean to you?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3447
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. It is of interest that the words “anarchism” and “revolution” were bo...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3477
Re: Personal account of Shine
Imagine priding yourself on NOT reading books...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6469
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
"Dharma is not just about getting Enlightened. It's about shaping and taming a place for dharma to endure." Excellent point. I was taught never to neglect promoting the Dharma or benefitting sentient beings. Compared to these two, benefitting oneself comes third. If we do not insure the c...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1086
Re: My last will and testament
Yep, time to rewrite it. The actuarial tables give me an expectancy of 12 more years. Now my wife is not a Buddhist, but is very sympathetic, and I trust her to deal with my dharma stuff responsibly. The statistical expectation is that she will outlast me. But I might outlast her, and I want to see...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6469
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Look people, let us not overestimate the efficacy of pilgrimage and offerings. These are beneficial practices, and/but they are not exclusively Buddhist practices. All religions have pilgrimage and offerings as part of their practice. According to some of the "logic" being bandied about ar...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
- Replies: 19
- Views: 523
Re: Poll idea - male / female / other
I do not know how value is measured in social sciences. But for me, value is simply in the fact that I am interested in that information. So the question is - am I allowed to be interested in that information, without being able to back-up my interest with some fancy-worded justification? Maybe the...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
- Replies: 19
- Views: 523
Re: Poll idea - male / female / other
I would like to compare my experience with real life dharma events with my perception on this forum. And what is the value of that? How is that helpful? I am not saying you have an agenda. I am saying that (in the social sciences) when we take a poll, we do it in order to extract information that w...