When your own defense of natthattā (Pali, for there is no ātman) runs out of gas there is nothing like a good old ad hominem attack.asunthatneversets wrote:Ok so Koji = Ardent = songhill... which explains a lot.
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- Wed May 13, 2015 12:55 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 200233
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Tue May 12, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 200233
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
We need to always keep in mind the use of "self" for ātman is a calque. Why is this? First of all self is a pronoun, ātman is a noun. ātman is almost impossible to render into English, adequately. We should also keep in mind that ātman is probably one of the most important words in Indian ...
- Tue May 12, 2015 5:13 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 200233
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
Oh, I see, Ardent, now you equate atman with jiva? Something conditioned, impermanent and mutable? Strange. Yo Nam! Do I equate atman with jiva? Not on your life, dude. Everyone knows that jīva—not ātman—transmigrates. Death is like a rest stop where jīva changes vehicles. Jīva is similar to Buddhi...
- Tue May 12, 2015 3:34 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 200233
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
After 40 plus years the scholar K. Bhattacharya's French edition has been put into English. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=The+Atman-Brahman+in+Ancient+Buddhism I just got the book the other day. I am about a quarter through it. It is great. The Buddha never categoricall...
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:58 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Bought: The Truth Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma & Your Food
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7999
Re: Bought: The Truth Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma & Your Foo
It appears that the mechanism for ASD has been recently discovered. Nothing to do with vaccines. http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org ... k-230.aspx
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Bought: The Truth Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma & Your Food
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7999
Re: Bought: The Truth Behind Vaccines, Big Pharma & Your Foo
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- Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:53 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Shikantaza
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8664
Re: Shikantaza
Is shikantaza something Dogen made up?
- Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:23 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
Open the Suttanipâta and check out the Khaggavisâna Sutta, Atthakavagga, and the Parayanavagga.Konchog1 wrote:What is Early Buddhism like?Whence the OP: given the Early Buddhism weltanschauung, which Mahayana traditions are most similar, and most different?
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:48 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
It's illusion all the way down. Infinite regression occurs when you posit a ground, and when asked what that ground stands on you claim there is another ground. I don't say there is a ground. The orbit of the Earth is influenced both by the Sun and other planets, not to mention its own mass and oth...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:26 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
Well put, and also what I was trying to say. Where does dharmakaya fit into this causal chain of illusions? We dare not go here. If you can burn this book for saying this (wink...wink...): "This Mind includes in itself all states of being of the phenomenal world and the trancendental world. On...
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
Let's look at conceptual appearances. Upon what, specifically, do these "dependent appearances" depend? The six senses depend on mentality-materiality, mentality-materiality depends on consciousness, consciousness depends on formations. In short, interdependence, and not dependence on an ...
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:11 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: I have some proof here that there's no afterlife
- Replies: 109
- Views: 21945
Re: I have some proof here that there's no afterlife
I don't see how this is proof of no afterlife as none of these people actually died! You can't prove there is no afterlife, it's impossible. what can you prove? All I can prove is that it is impossible to prove there is no afterlife. One can speculate until their face turns blue, but proof is an en...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:51 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
When you have relinquished all traces for rebirth, automatically the twelve āyatanas will cease at the break up of the body. This is classic "hināyāna" nirvana. Peter Harvey's books suggests that after the eradication of affliction there is a tiny shred of evidence in the Nikayas that Bud...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:16 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
But religion can also be this: "All religion expresses itself in such an awareness of something outside and beyond nature." ~ Schleiermacher As I said, smoke and mirrors. Pablum to feed the confused and ignorant. As the Buddha pointed out, there is nothing outside of the twelve āyatanas. ...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 3:28 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
The question is, why would anyone believe your testimony. You need a NPOV on the matter. This is religion, baby, it is all just smoke and mirrors. But religion can also be this: "All religion expresses itself in such an awareness of something outside and beyond nature." ~ Schleiermacher
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 3:20 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
When you said ealier: There is neither an experiencer nor an experienced, there is just experience, and even that is empty , does this pertain to "a presumption, a hypothesis, a fantasy, an idea"? As Cone replied already, yes. Whatever is said here is always and inevitably a conceptual cr...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:53 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
This leads to the question: for those who feel they have "had an experience" or "experienced" Wisdom or Buddhamind or whatnot, and have somehow consequently conceptualized that experience as a sort of "Self," is that "experience" really the experience of Wisd...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:34 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
This leads to the question: for those who feel they have "had an experience" or "experienced" Wisdom or Buddhamind or whatnot, and have somehow consequently conceptualized that experience as a sort of "Self," is that "experience" really the experience of Wisd...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:27 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
This leads to the question: for those who feel they have "had an experience" or "experienced" Wisdom or Buddhamind or whatnot, and have somehow consequently conceptualized that experience as a sort of "Self," is that "experience" really the experience of Wisd...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:26 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 134868
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
I am just wondering, but how does one personally know "there is just experience"? Of course we all know that anyone can imagine such as state but what the imagination concocts doesn't mean it is either real or attainable. If there is something that is not an experience you don't experienc...