Dharma Wheel

FWIW The power grid is safest under blockchain technology the IEEE discusses this. Blockchain offers solutions to all the things you mention. I work in energy regulation. People have been telling me that blockchain is going to revolutionize the way we manage the grid for ten years. It hasn't happen...

That's my fault, brain rot from peer review all day. (Apologies to DNS and others for driving this so far off topic). If you consider the I=PAT equation (Impact=Population*Affluence*Technology) then the majority of efforts focus on improving efficiency (Technology) to reduce over-all impact. Suffic...

enjoy meaningful discussion on inclusion and equity in the energy market, particularly as it pertains to investments in efficiency improvements and renewables back in the States. Any one in your field mentioning sufficiency? I'm not sure what you mean by sufficiency in this context? I apologize if ...

FWIW The power grid is safest under blockchain technology the IEEE discusses this. Blockchain offers solutions to all the things you mention. I work in energy regulation. People have been telling me that blockchain is going to revolutionize the way we manage the grid for ten years. It hasn't happen...

The solutions are simple, the US is the only country with this rate of incarceration...its' not complicated, we criminalize being poor. Just so. According to the BBC , the world's prison population is about 9 million. Of that, about 2.2M are in the US. We certainly don't have a quarter of the world...

My Zen teacher, who was very much "Western Zen" did Dokusan..but I always got the impression he was a outlier in his way of doing things. I've never heard of a western Soto Zen temple that doesn't offer dokusan, tbh. I mean, let's be honest here, Dokusan can just be people sitting in a room with th...

I've never heard of a western Soto Zen temple that doesn't offer dokusan, tbh.

I help moderate r/zenbuddhism (NOT r/zen which, as mentioned, has issues), so I'm obviously biased. I think we do really well at addressing newbie questions and concerns. I think that, although we have some very experienced practitioners, and although I've certainly learned a lot from some of those ...

They're taught, but again with less emphasis (and definitely not as an object of meditation). In my experience, how they're treated range from "this is a provisional teaching" to "this is a standalone teaching, it's one that we don't really do, but it can be an interesting lens through which to view...

karmanyingpo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:25 pm
We have things like the 4 Immeasurables in Tibetan traditions (even Bon!) but not sure about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese mahayana.

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In Soto Zen at least we place more emphasis on the paramitas.

The Shingon Risshu tradition is supposed to be extant and if so, they should, in theory, be following a full vinaya system. I could be wrong about this, but my understanding is that, the same as the other Japanese Buddhist schools, the Risshu school was forcibly secularized during the Meiji-era hai...

I think the key test of religious music is that it has to be good music first. There's oodles of great music dealing with Christian themes, but there's also dreadful "Christian Rock." Unfortunately, most of the modern Buddhist pop/rock/rap/etc. that I've heard just isn't that good--or at least, not ...

I'm not a Dzogchenpa, and nothing Malcolm posted in this thread contradicts my understanding of Nagarjuna.

Minobu, if you believe that Nagarjuna supports your view, it would be helpful to provide some quotations or citations to back that up.

In the Soto Zen temples with which I'm familiar, priest ordination is between the teacher and the ordainee. The Soto Zen Teachers Association has some recommended guidelines, but at the end of the day, if the teacher performs the ceremony, then you're a priest. None of this requires a four-year degr...

:good: Last year, Jay Garfield and the Sravasti Abbey recorded a lecture series on Yogacara's understanding of emptiness. You can easily find it on Youtube . I cannot think of a more accessible yet informative and philosophically interesting introduction than this. Also, since both parties come from...

Lot to try to respond to here. Matylda certainly has her point of view about western Zen. I'm an American Soto Zen practitioner, so I have my point of view, too. I dunno, maybe she's right, maybe not. I think it's more correct to say that western Soto Zen de-emphasizes satori/kensho than that it den...

To the best of my knowledge, there are no English-language translations of the entire Record of Bankei. The Waddell translation includes a series of Dharma talks that he gave. IIRC the Haskel includes all of those same talks, plus some other material. So why not just get the Haskel? Well, because th...

The Waddell is a somewhat more felicitous translation, the Haskel includes more material (e.g., some of Bankei's poems and calligraphy). It's hard to say whether one is "better" than the other.

Eh... Le Carre wrote good dialog, and he was a fantastic plotter. I don't think he was a particularly artistic writer, but his prose never got in its own way, which is more than you can say for a lot of writers who are considered "good." I was an editorial assistant at a publishing house for a littl...

Nicholas2727 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:30 pm
I was specifically referring to views on emptiness and Buddha Nature

None that I'm aware of. There are differences in how we see Buddha nature manifesting, but I think that goes more to your distinction between practices rather than any basic ontological conflict.