Dharma Wheel

SilentThunder wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:26 am If I were you I would go fly with the other birds in your own group. You can come back down to the ground and help out these guys later on, your help will be more accurate.

Momentum is important, don't loose yours down in the mud.

Cheers
Nick

Wow, thank you man.

Lately, I've started boycotting more companies and their products. Not gonna mention who they are, but it's for various reasons like animal testing, employee abuses, and bad customer service. My list of boycotts is not big, so it's easy to do without brooding over it every time I shop. I can mostly ...

Queequeg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:56 pm How can this be anything but the Joy of the Dharma?

Yup, Buddhism is meant to bring happiness. It's not a competition.

It's up to us! I like to say that Buddhism is easy, we just need knowledge and training. But we might create obstacles for ourselves and society can make it difficult too. So if we have difficulties, it's not Buddhism's fault. But this is no reason to blame ourselves either. At this time, I also str...

Does Buddhism condemn those who work in the entertainment industry (actors, singers, dancers)? Is it considered a wrong livelihood to be in such profession? Nothing wrong with being an artist per se. But this occupation also needs ethics, because artists can influence people and should know what th...

My view is that Buddhism in the West is doing well. If we view past the prophecy that Buddhism will decline, I think it looks bright. It's only a century since it was introduced. The most important is that it's accessible to people. No worries about bad organisation or bad teachers or lack of teache...

The old tantrics preferrred to work amongst scum and whores. Well, so do I. I know only losers, drug abusers and bully victims.

I don't say this to brag, but what do you think? The deepest suffering is where we find peace and love. But it's tough.

I believe everyone has infinite potential, So do I, but there could happen obstacles on the way. An example is the Angulimala story, to illustrate that he was able to do something to clean up his act, so he could live a happy life but he did never reach Nirvana. He had to wait till another life for...

Please help me to become a Doctor (MD) so that I can sponsor teachings and retreats! Please pray for me and recite mantras for me and dedicate merit to me so that I may realize my aspiration. :smile: Thank you kindly. :namaste: MD means "managing director" and any health worker using this title is ...

Simon E. wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:28 am This post answered your question fully. All you need do is unpack it..which will take some cross-referencing and a little familiarity with the concepts mentioned.

Thanks, even better! You summed it all up for us and I rest my case about the existence of reality.

Another reality is own idea – fabrication, not an idea by any fellows or any other things, which would be again belief in independence of things-ones. That's riiigghht! The concept of "several realities" is like believeing your dreams are real and parts of "the one and only, singular reality". Wars...

Simon E. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:53 am The idea that there is one reality is not Buddhadharma. You are not getting it.

I'm sooo sooorrrrry, but I won't take your word for it unless you can clarify with a valid argument and follow up with a conclusion. But no need for empirical evidence, buddy.

Man, what do you mean? Do you hold that reality doesn't exist at all? Please elaborate, your statement is arousing our curiousity. All realities arise through interdependent origination. Ultimately, what reality is there to talk about? Indeed, there's only one reality in existence so there is no po...

There is no 'one and only single reality'. That's Vedanta, not Buddhadharma. Man, what do you mean? Do you hold that reality doesn't exist at all? Please elaborate, your statement is arousing our curiousity. :popcorn: It's also still on-topic what you claim, so I will try to prove that reality exis...

heart wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 8:51 am Do you think relative truth is an reality, yes or no?

/magnus

DGA is not me, but a relative truth is also something real = a part of the one and only, singular reality.

DGA wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 10:41 pm
That's OK. I think it's an important distinction, but not all of us agree.

Are you sure that all of us don't agree?

Reality: something that is real = part of the one and only, singular reality
Truth: a fact one is unable to refute.

Beneath that there is an ultimate reality, "Ultimate reality" is a moronic idea, it just means some type of a common truth which is valid for everyone. The "ultimate truth" is that there exists only "the one and only, singular" reality in the Universe. It is a quite normal Buddhist idea, if you thi...

Beneath that there is an ultimate reality,

"Ultimate reality" is a moronic idea, it just means some type of a common truth which is valid for everyone. The "ultimate truth" is that there exists only "the one and only, singular" reality in the Universe.

Where is Shakyamuni Buddha?

He is mostly in Nirvana, but he appears to people on Earth via a dimension door in our solar system. But he is not omnipotent like a creator-god.

DGA wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:55 pm Sure, but lying to myself

Can you hear yourself in your head? Then it's not lies, because Buddha speaks the truth. Even if Mara wants to be Buddha, he is not able to lie to you if he ever manages to become the Buddha - no!