Dharma Wheel

I can see how someone who is intending to end their life might say "I didn't ask to be born" but that's just an attempt to rationalize the intention. The elegant solution around understanding the motivation suicide is found in this: that the pain of living outweighs all the other reactions to living...

Sun - "it’s a policy issue I support to make parents responsible for their genetic offspring regardless of marital status, in the form of paternity law and maternity law." Good luck, but as the old saw goes "Morality cannot be legislated." Therefore it is not a 'policy issue'. I'm not planning to l...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02481466 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29807048 This is what proofs look like. Vegan diets saving lives, and reducing deadly disease. No one is saying it is for everyone. No one is promoting a fad. Its just published science. Maybe DGA thought no one wou...

https://www.uclahealth.org/lifestyle-medicine/workfiles/Ornish_LiteratureReview.pdf So, when prescribed by a doctor, some vegan diets are not an eating disorders. It's following a doctors orders to save your life. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219620/ https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT...

It’s not good, because the NIH link is not even about veganism. DGA came to the debate with no evidence. The original Ornish diet scientifically proved beyond a shadow of doubt that his diet lowers cholesterol and reduces heart disease. Ditto for Dr. Jenkins. Currently plant based diets are showing...

Oh MAN, this is going to be good. :popcorn: It’s not good, because the NIH link is not even about veganism. DGA came to the debate with no evidence. The original Ornish diet scientifically proved beyond a shadow of doubt that his diet lowers cholesterol and reduces heart disease. Ditto for Dr. Jenk...

Oh MAN, this is going to be good. :popcorn: It’s not good, because the NIH link is not even about veganism. DGA came to the debate with no evidence. The original Ornish diet scientifically proved beyond a shadow of doubt that his diet lowers cholesterol and reduces heart disease. Ditto for Dr. Jenk...

Oh MAN, this is going to be good. :popcorn: It’s not good, because the NIH link is not even about veganism. DGA came to the debate with no evidence. The original Ornish diet scientifically proved beyond a shadow of doubt that his diet lowers cholesterol and reduces heart disease. Ditto for Dr. Jenk...

I’d like to talk with serious Mahayana people who see the advantage of unifying with Theravada. Personally I don’t see any advantages. And this is in spite of the fact that the Thien tradition I’m in borrows quite a lot from Theravada.

I’m not sure Mahasi Sayadaw will be helpful in a Zen context, but that’s not to say it’s not worth knowing. Zazen is not either Samatha nor Vipassana, however maybe 1000 years ago Ch’an practice was considered to be both calm and insight, but both practiced together not separately. Just not in the m...

When I suggested men play a role in how these pregnancies start, in how families are formed and supported, and in men's responsibility towards their own offspring, here on DW, i was shouted down. Even though i agree with you on rights of unborn, i find this blindness to reality and inability to lis...

https://www.michaelpramirez.com/uploads/3/4/9/8/34985326/mrz052819-color-1-4-mb_1_orig.jpg When I suggested men play a role in how these pregnancies start, in how families are formed and supported, and in men's responsibility towards their own offspring, here on DW, i was shouted down. Even though ...

None of these men ever practiced Zen. Although sometimes Zen monks were accepted as students in their sanghas. Maybe that’s the confusion. But that in and of itself does not show even an interest in. ZEn or Zen practices.

Glad to hear this! I’m in the USA and we no longer have honey bees in our yard, in fact I haven’t seen any in years.

dharmagoat wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2017 12:52 am

Nicholas Weeks wrote:The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.

We have brakes. Do we leave it to spin wildly?

I samsara was a leftist plot. Now I have proof. Nothing tops DW!

Another reason to like Mu Soeng’s translation: he sees these texts as authentic Indian Mahayana culture and not as something like Chinese fractured fairy tales

Emptiness (sunyata) is not the equivalent of “nothing” and to suffuse the mind with emptiness restricts, reduces, and removes craving. There really isn’t another way that I know of

If I was at home i’d upload some jpgs to you, but I’m out in Kentucky right now for about a week

I actually heard a teacher make disparaging remarks about Red Pine. It’s rather pathetic as I feel his translations are very approachable

Thank you all. I think choosing whichever one resonates with you and sticking with it would likely be the most beneficial. The imprint is the same. Good point. Mu Soeng Do you know where I could read a sample of his translation? Not exactly, he is a former Korean Zen monastic, of India national ori...