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- Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Knower: Self and non-self?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 236
Re: Knower: Self and non-self?
If I follow you, I think that's right. Alayavijnana is defiled. It's the seed from which samsara springs. Manas Vijnana (7th), observing the expressions of the alaya conceives a notion of self. As I understand, alaya is known only through it's appearances and can't be know directly.
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:15 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: 100,000 candles??
- Replies: 38
- Views: 656
Re: 100,000 candles??
Just thinking of the logistics... would you try to light all of these at once? By my napkin calculation, if you could light 60 candles a minute, it would take you like 28 hours. I remember visiting a temple in China where someone was making offerings and the entire floor of the chamber was covered w...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Wanting and Suffering
- Replies: 24
- Views: 518
Re: Wanting and Suffering
Well, with you, that goes without saying.LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:11 pmNothing you can understand!

- Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Wanting and Suffering
- Replies: 24
- Views: 518
Re: Wanting and Suffering
What are you talking about?LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:57 pmWhat are you talking about?
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Wanting and Suffering
- Replies: 24
- Views: 518
Re: Wanting and Suffering
He can make a choice. Of course, the Buddha gave advice not only to monastics, but also to laypeople with lower aspirations (basically for a happy re-birth, not necessarily for final liberation). But the very essence of the Buddha´s teaching is the gradual transcendence of the senses, not their gra...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:01 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Users' Avatars
- Replies: 17
- Views: 300
Re: Users' Avatars
My son is of that age where when he goes to a friend's birthday party, well, back in the pre-covid days there were birthday parties... I digress... the kids get a goody bag of candy and trinkets (I really hate this custom - we end up with lots of useless plastic toys that either don't work out of th...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:02 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Brunnhölzl on Buddha Nature as a radical teaching.
- Replies: 98
- Views: 2240
Re: Brunnhölzl on Buddha Nature as a radical teaching.
Nobody addressed this. It never made much sense to me how Buddhism apparently finds it totally acceptable to assume the definition of "individual minds" while going on and negating the existence of any such thing as jiva, atman and the like. Buddhism does not define “individual minds” as such, but ...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:47 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: How to die softly.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 149
Re: How to die softly.
I've heard somewhere that you can die without suicide and be reborn in the pure land of Amitabha Buddha. You just lay down and die. Is this possible and how do i do it? I'm tired of this corrupted and false world. I want to go now. Now. Please help me. Friend, even if it is possible, your present s...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:53 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Tree of World Religions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 325
Re: The Tree of World Religions
Jokes aside, I agree with you. On one hand, we all follow the voice in our heads. Monotheism covers this over with a single pole social structure, as you point out, which can tend to authoritarianism. I actually argued something along these lines over Passover with a group of not particularly theist...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:38 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Wanting and Suffering
- Replies: 24
- Views: 518
Re: Wanting and Suffering
a little of both. although trapping the rabbit would probably be easier to deal with... When I read: “...is the solution to get the girlfriend by whatever means necessary or is it to not want the girlfriend in the first place?” That tells me your whole approach to romance needs some adjusting. Firs...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:57 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Holiday in Burma
- Replies: 4
- Views: 113
Re: Holiday in Burma
Not saying it can't go that way. Let's hope it doesn't get substantially worse. The rohingya genocide is bad enough.
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:40 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Tree of World Religions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 325
Re: The Tree of World Religions
Interesting Idea with some errors but a huge project Created by by Dzvenislava Novakіvska and her team at Funk & Consulting "The Tree of World Religions" is a stunning chart that maps the ramifications of an incredible number of religions over the last 3,000 years. https://000024.org/religions_tree...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:37 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Holiday in Burma
- Replies: 4
- Views: 113
Re: Holiday in Burma
It's not polpot level.
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:46 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Wanting and Suffering
- Replies: 24
- Views: 518
Re: Wanting and Suffering
im hoping this is the right place to post this. so ive been pondering something in my meditation time that im having a hard time wrapping my head around. my basic is that wanting causes suffering. so the less you want things in life the better. well ive been wanting a girlfriend as soon as i was ol...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:36 pm
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: lockdowns on Nichiren site .
- Replies: 24
- Views: 516
Re: lockdowns on Nichiren site .
The lack of ability to maintain decorum is a compound phenomenon. More importantly there lies a really interesting rationale that exists here. The internet isn't "real" yet the efforts to moderate Buddhism (not just here) is arduous. The buddha did not find human discord arduous, he found it to be ...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:01 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Tree of World Religions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 325
Re: The Tree of World Religions
Interesting Idea with some errors but a huge project Created by by Dzvenislava Novakіvska and her team at Funk & Consulting "The Tree of World Religions" is a stunning chart that maps the ramifications of an incredible number of religions over the last 3,000 years. https://000024.org/religions_tree...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:34 pm
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: lockdowns on Nichiren site .
- Replies: 24
- Views: 516
Re: lockdowns on Nichiren site .
If someone disagrees with a locked thread, ask a mod to reopen. All mod decisions are appealable... Until they're not. At some point the mod decision does become final. It's all a matter of reasonability.
Keep things civil and there should be no problems.
Keep things civil and there should be no problems.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:51 pm
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Not getting results - what to do !
- Replies: 21
- Views: 404
Re: Not getting results - what to do !
Everything i wanted i got.. Yeah, but you're a wild eyed warlock. That's only partly a joke. You are a type that tapped into something back when the world was going through a wilder, open phase. People were tapping into real alchemy. The bureaucrats and ideologues took over the world and no one rip...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Two Truths in Mahayana
- Replies: 70
- Views: 1051
Re: Two Truths in Mahayana
Relatively speaking, absolutely.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:40 pm “Absolute” truth and “relative” truth are probably not very good terms.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:51 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Two Truths in Mahayana
- Replies: 70
- Views: 1051
Re: Two Truths in Mahayana
That is, it is correct to say that according to the Ultimate Truth: Every person is composed of the five aggregates, or skandhas: matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness which are constantly changing and form an illusion of self for each person? Well, kind of. But see, in...