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- Mon Aug 19, 2019 4:42 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Socialism & Communism
- Replies: 231
- Views: 41511
Re: Socialism & Communism
To me, an economy that is based off of consumption and those who can potentially consume the most, i.e. the wealthy, hold the honor of "success" and/or "power" already seems to be starting off on the wrong foot. In a globalized, technically sophisticated world where abundance is ...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What brought you to the dharma & what's your biggest challenge?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2593
Re: What brought you to the dharma & what's your biggest challenge?
I personally think I was brought to the dharma from a connection in a previous life. I have long been frustrated with a search for a spiritual teacher which eventually led to a vision in which I saw in a former life that I was either a monk or a student and that my chocolate lab (in my current life)...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:05 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Interesting New Yorker Article on Buddhism
- Replies: 3
- Views: 903
Interesting New Yorker Article on Buddhism
The New Yorker: Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/out-of-e ... r-of-india
Just found this today in the news and thought I'd share it
https://www.newyorker.com/news/out-of-e ... r-of-india
Just found this today in the news and thought I'd share it
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:05 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen Practice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9457
Re: Zen Practice
Thanks all!
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:12 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen Practice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9457
Zen Practice
Hi all, I am continuing some preliminary readings on Zen. In particular, I am reading Alan Watts' The Way of Zen . I come from several years of serious Tibetan Buddhist studies via books and a couple of different masters. My Tibetan studies were primarily in Dzogchen. The parallels between Dzogchen ...
- Tue May 28, 2019 3:45 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Who do psychics talk to?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2942
Re: Who do psychics talk to?
I don't know that rebirth has to happen immediately, correct? At any rate, time is a mental construct of man to arbitrarily divide "events" from one another. Such a division is not a part of reality - it is a function of language and the way the human mind has evolved to grasp the echoes a...
- Mon May 27, 2019 1:36 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Sanskrit Lexicon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3208
Re: Sanskrit Lexicon
Great responses, thank you! Intellectual sectarian scholars which rely only on empirical observation and divisive facts are so boring..... I fear I may have asked the latter of the two questions out of context. Watts was a Taoist/Zen Buddhist (I'm not really sure which and I don't think he would dra...
- Sun May 26, 2019 7:52 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Sanskrit Lexicon
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3208
Sanskrit Lexicon
Hi all, I am reading Alan Watts' The Way of Zen , and he mentions at one point that the lexicon used for Sanskrit (in 1957) is by Bothlingk and Roth from the latter nineteenth century. I assume in this day and age more accurate and modern lexicons are now in use, correct? Additionally, he mentions t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:51 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen // Middle Way
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3220
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:18 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
If you want your Buddhism without dependent origination, karma, dukkha, or a clear theory of anicca and anatman...is it even Buddhism anymore? I would look at it this way - those are all just names, even in Buddhism. What counts is your experience - not a book knowledge of what certain terms specif...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
Daoism and Buddhism are totally compatible... If you want your Buddhism without dependent origination, karma, dukkha, or a clear theory of anicca and anatman...is it even Buddhism anymore? I would look at it this way - those are all just names, even in Buddhism. What counts is your experience - not...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:14 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
Daoism and Buddhism are totally compatible, if you mean East Asian Buddhism. They grew up together and were eventually integrated together. The Complete Reality School (Quanzhen) assembled Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian practice. The Secret of the Golden Flower is more Buddhist than Daoist in my v...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:14 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
That boat may not float for everyone, but it works for me. I guess this pretty much sums up what this thread is before it goes on for another 50 pages :tongue: Am just curious, if you don't mind sharing... a. Have you studied / practiced 道教 with any of their living lineages / teachers? Last I check...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 7:04 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
Thanks PeterC. I'm sure I'm not there yet and don't know that I will ever arrive per se :) I also realize that the meaning of emptiness in each tradition are not equivalent, to be sure. To me, in my little opinion, I don't think that means that they are mutual exclusive or cannot be understood via u...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
For me the acme..the acid test... for determining closeness to the Buddhas' Dharma, is 'Does this teaching endorse or promulgate Dependent Origination?' I have seen no evidence that Taoism does. In one of the previous re-runs of this topic on this forum there were various attempts to show that vari...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
I have some sympathy for the OP's project, but ultimately I agree that creating our own structure of spiritual meaningfulness will lead no further than just that: having a sense of meaningfulness. I think that largely depends on how dogmatic one might be about one's own spirituality. I am a subscri...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 4:12 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
No, because I'm not really interested in that discussion. My OP was more for obtaining resources that balance Taoist and Buddhist thought together. How Buddhism might compare to Taoism and vice versa might fall into that by default due to context, but I've been participating in a digression in this ...
Re: Advice
My wife and I went through a similar experience about 12 years ago. We had some unintentional codependency going on with each other, and we each had our cycle of this type of thing (me being jealous of her at one point and vice versa). The "cure" so to speak for me was to divorce myself em...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
Feng Shui is taught by the Wisdom Academy (at Wisdom Publications) by a Tibetan monk if I am not mistaken. So, yes :) It's taught at Wisdom by Ven Jampa Ludrup because Lama Zopa Rinpoche likes Feng Shui, in my experience most Tibetans don't take it seriously. I have never met a lineage-holding Lama...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: In between Taoism and Buddhism
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18345
Re: In between Taoism and Buddhism
Despite your several disclaimers you write that the foundation of Buddhism lacks personal experience.This is absurd. I certainly do not mean to indicate personal experience does not exist in the foundational principles of Buddhism. Perhaps my new found zeal for Taoism is coming out more than I inte...