Dharma Wheel

All the comments were super helpful! I got the general idea of it now :3 I really wish to reach Vajrayana teacher, but there are many flavors/paths/schools(?) of it(according to google). Sadly, Vajrayana communities are not so close to where I live and I will have to travel in real life. Therefore, ...

As a new follower of Dharma, reading about Buddhism can sometimes feel overwhelming. I was very curious about the main differences between Therevada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. After searching google for a while, I have stumbled upon this article . To my surprise, I found the following statement: An ad...

Keep in mind, there is no ‘self’ that takes rebirth. In a sense, you could say that tanas, or cravings, you could say, “coalesce” as the samsaric illusion of “sentient beings”. Yeah, I keep this in mind all the time! That's why I used term "personalities". Im still very confused about this problem ...

Keep in mind, there is no ‘self’ that takes rebirth. In a sense, you could say that tanas, or cravings, you could say, “coalesce” as the samsaric illusion of “sentient beings”. Yeah, I keep this in mind all the time! That's why I used term "personalities". Im still very confused about this problem ...

As Im discovering Buddhism, one problem appeared upon me. New people are being born all the time, and so are Tanhas with them. Now, all those personalities would need another body after death. However, we have older ones too which had not reached Buddhahood yet. So whats the deal with this? Populati...

Thank you so much Astus, it all fits nicely now

Thank you both on your reply This has been truly insightful for me!

Astus, I have a question for you: people form fetters by clinging/avoiding things, based on emotional response that arises from contact?

Dear Astus and PadmaVonSamba, thank you both so much for reading my post and taking your time to reply to it! Astus, your clarification was amazing! I grasped it immediately :) Now, I still have one more question left, and its regarding emotions/feelings. When we cognize something, does that cogniti...

Dear members, I am new to Buddhism, but I have a long history of practice in other tradition. By profession, I am clinical psychologist. I read few books on Buddhism, including The Three Pillars of Zen, The Undying Lamp of Zen, The Rinzai Zen Way and What the Buddha Taught. So far I really dig what ...