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Buddhism on reddit tends to heavily slant to Theravada but that doesn't mean it should be dismissed entirely. It's an excellent place to help people who are new and learning. Stay the heck away from /zen though.

When the ordinary becomes the profound.

It really depends on how you define "okay" and how strict you want to be with your practice and training. “Don’t run back to the past, don’t hope for the future. What’s past is left behind; the future has not arrived; and phenomena in the present are clearly seen in every case. Knowing this, foster ...

to what degree can that suffering be successfully managed by any of the philosophies, all of which are of course made of thought?

It can't be, which is why Buddhism is a set of practices that you actually do and don't do, rather than a mere philosophy.

I would not categorize it as either. They are both too extreme. It's really a mixture of both. :smile: Although, traditional Buddhist philosophy is generally not challenged because most all Buddhists accept it, which is why they are Buddhists to begin with. However, if one tries to give some kind of...

Most Korean monks go to study 4 yrs after they apply to ordain. The education is part of the ordination process, not a prerequisite. Training System Summary Jogye Order’s training system can be broadly classified as: 1) Elementary Training (기초교육), 2) Basic Training (기본교육), 3) Specialized Training (전...

It would be a right livelihood yes because any livelihood that is not a wrong livelihood is a right livelihood. Right livelihood = not wrong livelihood.

So, saving all beings from suffering is the goal of practicing. :smile: However, is this the goal in an ultimate sense? Or, just a conventional or relative one? If it is an ultimate goal then why does that even need to be done to begin with? Given that all things, including ignorant perceptions, and...

Thanks for the handy tip about B12 - I think that's the only thing missing right now. I found vegan drops you put on your food; was thinking of trying those. I guess there's no really easy way to check if your levels are low or not. I find the easiest/most convenient to take is sublingual liquid. L...

If you can't answer the questions, why are you attempting to? That's just misleading people... Why are you even asking the questions? Do you actually want to know or do you just want to play internet dharma combat, which is a fools game? Seem to me it's just the latter. Am I supposed to just blindl...

When the monk related this to Mazu, Mazu said, “Zhizang’s head is white; Baizhang’s head is black.” What does that mean? Why does it need to mean something other than what it says? It means Zhizang’s head is white and Baizhang’s head is black. Maybe Baizhang was out in the sun a lot and had a reall...

Zen is what's right here in front of you. All the rest is just a bunch of ideas. Zen is what's left when ideas are dispensed with.

but how can one even become an Arhat without being a Bodhisattva? Here, if you read this definition of Arhat from the SGI Dictionary it says that the term was originally synonymous with the Buddha, and also, I have read a book called The Teaching of Buddha where "Arhat" was used as a term to praise...

So in a sense Nirvana is an Expedient Means doctrine that leads to Buddhahood. But in what way? Nirvana is a step towards Buddhahood, but what has to be realized inbetween? Seems Chapter 2 is referring to previous teachings of Nirvana, AKA nirvana of an arhat or specifically hinayana nirvana. What ...

How do you make sound a 'neutral' experience (vs. noise)? Just by practicing not pushing it away. The only thing that causes sound to be noise is the wish to not hear it. If the dog is barking just practice allowing the dog to bark. When you fully allow the dog to bark and stop wanting to push it a...

Dgj wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:27 pm The reasoning was something like: "All is one" is incorrect because it implies that there is a one in the all.

I don't think that's true at all, because that implication is added by oneself. If one does not add it, then there isn't any implication.

Not exactly advice per say but the single most helpful think my zen teacher said to me was "Nothing I can say can help you!"

I hope your dad has a fortunate future. Prayers for your dad.

For a monk, yes. For a layperson, no. However, that doesn't mean it's good. I just means it's not bad enough to be called a broken precept.

Its frustrating to hear the following: "...you are already enlightened but just ignorant to the fact. There is nowhere to go and nothing to do but equally Zazen needs to be done in order for you to experience the fact that you are enlightened..." It's not fundamentally flawed simply because it has ...