Dharma Wheel

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.

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...

LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:11 pm

Queequeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:09 pm

LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:57 pm

What are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

Nothing you can understand!

Well, with you, that goes without saying.

LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:57 pm

Queequeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:51 pm

LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:44 am
Does OP want to pursue enlightenment?

He's asking in a Buddhist forum, so we can presume he's soliciting a Buddhist perspective on his dilemma. If all he wants is tips on being a rapture engineer, there are better places.

What are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Not saying it can't go that way. Let's hope it doesn't get substantially worse. The rohingya genocide is bad enough.

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...

It's not polpot level.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:40 pm “Absolute” truth and “relative” truth are probably not very good terms.

Relatively speaking, absolutely.

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...