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How can you tell if someone is "Faking" spiritual wisdom. because in a lot of places I'm seeing how easy it is to fake it, you can pretty much give anything the appearance of it without understanding. Yes, it is easy to fake and people have been doing it for thousands of years. Like I don...

master of puppets wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:32 am for the sake of saving everybody's

okay, now you are being a bodhisattva.

I call myself a bodhisattva too. a bodhisattva is also a buddha. I can be a buddha. if I study hard. Before, you said that you are a Bodhisattva. Now you say a bodhisattva is a Buddha. But now you say you are not a Buddha? Please explain how if you are a bodhisattva and a Bodhisattva is a Buddha, t...

Do you know this situations where you meet a new person, and they start creating a story of their self and who they are? What should you do in such situations? The same? Especially when they want to play the game of status, figuring out where they are on the imaginary social hierarchy. I never know...

Thank you I am happy of where I stand. a bodhisattva is also a buddha. If you are happy misappropriating concepts specific to the Mahayana Buddhist tradition to bolster your fantasy, and that’s really all you want to do, then it’s where you are right now, and that’s that. Everybody starts somewhere...

Thank you I am happy of where I stand. a bodhisattva is also a buddha. That’s simply incorrect, in Theravada or Mahayana. [/quote] Insofar as Theravada referring to the Buddha in previous lives prior to Gautama, the term bodhisattva is sometimes used. I don’t think they ever use it to refer to anyo...

As it is said in Dharmapada 14:183 "Do good, don't do evil, purify your mind." This is the Buddha's defitinion. I put my sign under it. Not blowing to the wind. :popcorn: Obviously you ignored or simply dismissed the fact I shared with you already, which is that this quote from the Dhamma...

master of puppets wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:30 pm a bodhisattva doesn't have to cultivate anything. even his irrelevant actions etc find his target like a bullet fired from a gun. whatever the distance is and wherever you're so just be alive is enough for him.

Also, cheese is a vegetable.

As it is said in Dharmapada 14:183 "Do good, don't do evil, purify your mind." That’s a wonderful quote and very much sums up the Buddhist path in general. And while it is often quoted by Mahayanists, it is not a Mahayana teaching. It is from Pali texts. That’s fine. There’s nothing wrong...

It's a reductio ad absurdum because it's the easiest way to make the point. You don't know the lama's level of realization, you never will. 。。。。。 I think it's potentially dangerous to propagate the idea to casual readers of this board that there's some kind of route to vajrayana practice that doesn...

You're introduced to your minds nature by having it explained to you. It's a pointing out. This is pretty straightforward. It's introducing you to something you can actually experience for yourself and then use on the path. I was referring more to the before/after difference between going to a temp...

It's like trying to grow crops in concrete versus in carefully prepared, tilled, and fertilized soil. Thanks, but “it’s like…” doesn’t really answer the question. Nice metaphor, however. I already answered the question, it creates a positive cause with your body speech and mind towards the path, pu...

stoneinfocus wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:19 am It's like trying to grow crops in concrete versus in carefully prepared, tilled, and fertilized soil.

Thanks, but “it’s like…” doesn’t really answer the question. Nice metaphor, however.

master of puppets wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:44 am I don't understand why he needs donate..

he says it’s how he makes his living

Empowerments align the dependent origination of a practitioner's body speech and mind to the path. They also introduce the nature of mind. Thank you, but that doesn’t really do it, because now you have to explain what “align” and “introduce” mean. They clear out the gunk from your body speech and m...

stoneinfocus wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:50 pm Empowerments align the dependent origination of a practitioner's body speech and mind to the path. They also introduce the nature of mind.

Thank you, but that doesn’t really do it, because now you have to explain what “align” and “introduce” mean.

What I find curious about practice empowerments is that although people say they are absolutely necessary, I have yet to meet someone who can explain precisely what they are. People say things such as “blessing of the lineage” or “transmission of mind” of simply “point of continuation” but the answe...

By being a Bodhisattva, and waiting for everyone else to attain Enlightenment first . :shrug: https://www.lionsroar.com/the-bodhisattva/ That's an insult. Say your sorry and apologize :jawdrop: I believe I have an understanding of the truth non egotistical enough to understand that compassionate en...

:tongue: Dharma is nobody’s property. True, but you are still paying for internet to access online stuff. Instead of paying FPMT, you are paying Apple or Verizon or whoever. Your choice. The only difference is digital and paper. Otherwise you argue that when accessing Dharma material, your phone or ...

Throughout the history of Buddhadharma, copying of sacred texts was viewed as a meritorious activity. It was a far more common than having texts produced by large printings at places like Derge. That activity doesn’t cease to be meritorious because business interests have convinced governments over...