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- Sat Jan 10, 2015 12:47 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Frugal living
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8076
Re: Frugal living
I enjoy my current situation: middle class income with frugal & simple lifestyle. So I actually feel rich, because I earn much more than I need, even though many people earn more and still feel poor.
- Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:55 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Prayers for my mental illness
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4021
Re: Prayers for my mental illness
May you be fine and happy, free from mental illness!
Namo Amida Butsu!
Namo Amida Butsu!
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:38 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Pure Land for the not very faith-inclined?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12889
Re: Pure Land for the not very faith-inclined?
Hey Lazy Eye, I am a bit similar to you in being a rationalist and empiricist, and yet Pure Land Buddhism seems to suit me, to me Amida and the Vow rather than a specific entity represent the embracing of the real, enlightened life in me. Where it's not about the self, but about love for all sentie...
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Western Slave Masters' Enslavement of Other Countries/Races
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6411
Re: Western Slave Masters' Enslavement of Other Countries/Ra
There is like 500 visitors to this forum daily, the most popular English-speaking Buddhist forum on the web and its rank in the US is 209,322 Facebook has 60,000,000 visitors daily and its rank in the US is number 2. 500/60,000,000 = 0.000083%. So there is only 0.000083% of facebook visitors who ar...
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:31 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Archetypal Buddha?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7413
Re: Archetypal Buddha?
If you believe that Amitabha is a creature of flesh and bones somewhere far away in the west, then he becomes unreal.gingercatni wrote:Hello
Does this mean they are not real to some Buddhists?
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:28 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Premature Death and Climate Change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2013
Re: Premature Death and Climate Change
Dire warnings have aways been with us. A classic example is a book tited The Population Bomb which sold over two million copies, scared the bejazus out of everybody, and whose predictions never came to pass. The author predicted in 1968, -a substantial increase in the death rate in the next two dec...
- Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:03 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Economic Hegemony
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6655
Re: Climate Change: We're Doomed
5% of world oil supply is very significant.Dan74 wrote:Thanks, Raksha, though the condescension was not required.
Iraq at the time was supplying 5% of world's oil, hardly significant.
- Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:38 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Would you say that mdma experience of all out love is valid?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5564
Re: Would you say that mdma experience of all out love is valid?
Sorry but this lama sounds like an idiot.Raksha wrote:An elderly Tibetan lama once commented to me about people who smoke marijuana... 'everything they think and everything they say is crap'.
It's really irritating to see people who have never taken any drugs act as if they know what drugs are about.
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32243
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
I think there is no way mankind can avoid the severe consequences of our actions. If we could, we would never learn to love and respect our wonderful livegiver Earth.
We are being evil towards our lifegiver which has produced a helluva lot of bad karma collectively.
We are being evil towards our lifegiver which has produced a helluva lot of bad karma collectively.
- Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:32 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddhism and Peak Oil
- Replies: 177
- Views: 32243
Re: Buddhism and Peak Oil
Aemilius, do you 100 percently trust that you are so free of "seeds of hell" that you can just imagine a better world and avoid the karma?
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:18 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Pure Land thoughts
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2508
Re: Pure Land thoughts
dakini_boy, thanks for that post. I truly appreciate!
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:13 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Pure Land thoughts
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2508
Re: Pure Land thoughts
As for me, reciting the name but not "obsessively". Trying to be aware of the inconceivable light. Trying to integrate nembutsu with daily life!Music wrote:What does it mean to focus on amitabha, just reciting his name?
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:35 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Pure Land thoughts
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2508
Pure Land thoughts
Hi! Until about now, I have been very confused whether buddhas, bodhisattavas, pure lands, hells, etc exist "really" or simply as metaphors. But I realized that there's no way I can figure out which is the true view. What I know, however, is that these things definitely exits IN SOME SENSE...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:44 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Power of Vows of Buddha Amitabha?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3777
Re: Power of Vows of Buddha Amitabha?
Chan/Zen school doesn't teach an Amitabha Buddha outsider our own mind. Some Shin Buddhists, notably professor Shigaraki, believe that Amida should be seen as a symbol. And I think he's right! People can pretend they believe in a "real Amida buddha who resides somewhere far away in the West&qu...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38260
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
Sadly people especially in Asia take anything these "masters" say as truth.
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:33 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38260
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
And by the way, I am not particularly pro-homosexuality. I am dubious about gay marriage and definitely against adoption rights for gay people.
But what Hsuan Hua is advocating here is simply put ridiculous and makes his realization questionable.
But what Hsuan Hua is advocating here is simply put ridiculous and makes his realization questionable.
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:30 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38260
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
One more proof that true Buddhist masters are nearly extinct. Interesting. Do you think that Buddhist teachers of the past didn't hold such views? That they were on the whole freer from prejudice and everyday misconceptions than the contemporary ones are? I certainly hope they were! What's "re...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:24 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Understanding SHINJIN by Paul Roberts
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10724
Re: Understanding SHINJIN by Paul Roberts
I like this guy. He is not shy about having achieved shinjin unlike most other Shin figures. I wish more people were as straightforward as him because it shows that shinjin can be achieved. This gives hope for those of us whose hearts are still clouded by doubt! Wow, I have changed so much after re...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:48 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38260
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
One more proof that true Buddhist masters are nearly extinct.
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:05 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
- Replies: 8214
- Views: 1656356
Re: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Ok, thank, I'll buy that as well!Fa Dao wrote:Gyougan,
just a suggestion but reading Crystal and the Way of Light will probably give you a better overview