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by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 6
Views: 156

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

In any event, I hope Japanese Buddhism goes in the direction of less sectarianism and more cross pollination. I see this happening quite a bit in American Zen. I have several dharma siblings who have a Pure Land practice in addition to zazen. There are a number of Zen teachers who have studied with...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

I thought it was kind of funny that David was confused with Domain Name System.

David can correct me, but my sense is that he is Center-Center-Right on the American political spectrum. All this conspiracy thinking about a leftist cabal running this site is ridiculous.
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 31
Views: 773

Re: Favourite Professional Sports

I think just this year you can no longer grab ball carriers around the hips and pull them down. That sounds like the standard tackle in Rugby - how do you tackle someone if you can't tackle them around the hips? I just looked it up - what is illegal is what's called a hip drop tackle. Its a new rul...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 6
Views: 156

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Its interesting - you go to many temples and they are nominally one sect or another, but then they have ancient unique practices that make them something else. This might be more so with temples associated with Vajrayana, either Shingon or Tendai. In any event, I hope Japanese Buddhism goes in the d...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

Pot, meet kettle. I'm not singling you out, but, many of your critiques in this thread could apply to you in this thread... Oh yeah? I don't think I have voiced any conservative or alt-right opinion in any of my thread. I've just voiced concern about the ease with which some manifest hatred towards...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:16 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

Maybe its your tone? Maybe it's the exasperation rising from reading the hatred spread in lounge, as if it was justified because of a divergence of opinions. Pretty sad and bodhcitta-wise totally appalling... Pot, meet kettle. I'm not singling you out, but, many of your critiques in this thread cou...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 6
Views: 156

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

There are a lot of books that present a survey of Japanese Buddhism. Foundations of Japanese Buddhism is a good one. Very quickly - I think a few of the original 6 Nara schools still exists - Kegon (Flower Garland centric) and Hosso (Yogacara). Tendai is a mix of ordinary Mahayana of the Tiantai var...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

I perceive alt-right people - everywhere - whining about how they were not free to say the the things they want to say. But actually, they cannot stand that opponents call out their speech as misanthropic, unfair and dangerous. One could laugh about this twisting of facts, if it wasn't so demagogic...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 31
Views: 773

Re: Favourite Professional Sports

The NFL has been taking significant steps to protect players from severe head and other injuries. For one, leading with the head and using the helmet to take a ball carrier down is illegal and has been for many years - its called spearing. Incidental head contact is not a penalty. It can be a fine l...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

If there’s no bias, it wouldn’t be a debate, would it? There were bias, so there were debates. There still are (in a certain form, in lounge mostly with a constant slight distillation of hatred, Kim O'hara, Queequeg come to mind...) Not sure what that means, but if I'm in Kim's company, I think I'm...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 61
Views: 854

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

Some of this has been voiced above, so please pardon if this is repetitive. I am against the idea of requiring all posts to be directly about dharma. This is more than just a Buddhist discussion board, it is, in a broad sense, a sangha of householders (for the most part?), and as householders, not e...
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
Replies: 22
Views: 743

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

The differences are enough that it would be an unnecessary source of conflict to be in the same sandbox. As a Mahayanist, I don't need to constantly be told I'm not Buddhist. Some of the folk over there are quite intolerant. Alright I would hate to stir up some heated discussion, especially since I...
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:09 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 31
Views: 773

Re: Favourite Professional Sports

1. NFL (American football) - Pros: Perhaps the most use of strategy in any team sport. Complex plays are developed and used. Each play is like a chess move, in a strategic play. The wide variety of positions also make it like chess. The linemen are like the pawns. The offensive and defensive backs ...
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
Replies: 22
Views: 743

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

natusake wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:38 pm
Queequeg wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:33 pm The differences are enough that it would be an unnecessary source of conflict to be in the same sandbox. As a Mahayanist, I don't need to constantly be told I'm not Buddhist. Some of the folk over there are quite intolerant.
Enough of that already happens here :rolling:
Indeed.
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
Replies: 22
Views: 743

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

The differences are enough that it would be an unnecessary source of conflict to be in the same sandbox. As a Mahayanist, I don't need to constantly be told I'm not Buddhist. Some of the folk over there are quite intolerant.
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
Replies: 53
Views: 1498

Re: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"

[ Oh yes it is, but it is the only way I can proceed in this life! I wholeheartedly admit that my claims are partly sentimental & partly dogmatic, but this is my way to go: put into words a viewpoint that seems fertile for discussion hoping that some clarity could emerge along the way. I do not...
by Queequeg
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!
Replies: 2
Views: 139

Re: Happy Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva's Birthday!

南無観世音菩薩 
南無観世音菩薩 
南無観世音菩薩
Namu kanzeon bosatsu
Namu kanzeon bosatsu
Namu kanzeon bosatsu

:smile:
by Queequeg
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:31 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
Replies: 53
Views: 1498

Re: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"

What would your take on this be? :anjali: Wasn't sure what you were asking, but now I think I get it. Wallace, as far as I know, is not talking about some common ground of being out of which we all arise. That ground of being, the tathagatagarbha, the buddhanature, is the real nature of each of us....
by Queequeg
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Sports
Replies: 25
Views: 617

Re: Favourite Sports

Yep - the fun factor. I forgot to add, I like the local high school sports, too. Its fun to see kids you've seen grow up from youth sports playing at the JV and varsity level.
by Queequeg
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Sports
Replies: 25
Views: 617

Re: Favourite Sports

Side comment - attending professional sports has gotten outrageously expensive so I've stopped seeing events live unless I get free tickets. I've instead started attending semi-pro and college games and find it as entertaining as well as reasonably priced. Of course, the star power isn't there, but ...

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