Dharma Wheel

My brain has a habit of turning such things into the negatives: Gardening: manipulation of nature Building: not really making anything new at all Volunteering: you are part of the problem, a band aid and really only making things worse You get the idea. Same with role models, they never worked for ...

Hi there, apologies for the title but I wanted to put in the core parts of this. New on here but not exactly new to Buddhism. To be honest I don't know too much about it. I began reading it by chance to learn about religions of the world so I could understand people better and the stuff there shock...

May they be well. May they be free from suffering. May they know peace.

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JoaoRodrigues wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:52 am Ahahah,
Seriously?

I'd say almost certainly a nun.

Why take the Dharma as anything other than a guide to liberation?

Then we actually use it as intended and not tie ourselves in unnecessary knots over these apparent contradictions.

It's a great quote, thank you for the reminder! :D To me, he is urging us to dedicate ourselves 100%. This doesn't necessarily mean it has to be dramatic, with extreme conditions, beatings etc. Maybe for some this is what 100% dedication means and it is exactly what is necessary, I don't know. For ...

It's a great quote, thank you for the reminder! :D To me, he is urging us to dedicate ourselves 100%. This doesn't necessarily mean it has to be dramatic, with extreme conditions, beatings etc. Maybe for some this is what 100% dedication means and it is exactly what is necessary, I don't know. For o...

He is a Rinzai teacher and they are very dynamic, physical even when sitting; they gave all kinds of little body and movement tricks. Rinzai is a fantastic path that takes a lot of effort...you gotta sweat blood, take those whacks with the staff, get down on the mat and wrestle with it all...they s...

There's an excellent video I saw a little while back from Meido Roshi that is potentially of use to people of all traditions and indeed outside Buddhism as well (sorry it's free access but I'm not sure how to embed a vid from patreon page - if a Mod knows, please edit). https://www.patreon.com/posts...

Really good replies above, I think. Whether gay or straight, most of us have issues with accepting who we are and just feeling we deserve to be here, deserve to take the space we do. Often, we think it's because of a particular trait or attribute but I think it's the deeper existential angst. Perhap...

Most of the biological, physical, seismological and cosmological assertions don't measure up. Even if the Big Bang theory is correct, it doesn't prove anything about time having a beginning. I'm not sure what you're talking about when you mention other categories of assertions. Whether there were p...

The Big Bang implies a beginning of time. At least, as you say, for this universe. Whether there were prior universes is a different question, I think, since they would not have a clear causal connection to this one, as far as I can tell. All that is very interesting stuff for cosmologists and phil...

The trouble with that is there is very strong cosmological evidence that time does not stretch into the infinite past. Not quite. There is strong evidence for time stretching back until a specific finite moment in the past. Beyond that, it is true, there is no evidence. But, as they say, absence of...

1.an infinity can never be reached and it cannot be reached in the past. It is true that infinity cannot be reached. That is the point. If you go back in the past, you just keep on going back. there has to be a starting point to every causal chain like rebirth and karma. Why? If there is a starting...

that the Buddha and all people who have written or edited Buddhist texts must be perfectly omniscient I don't know anyone who holds this view. The Buddha is viewed as omniscient in texts like the one I cited above. Editors and authors may not have been enlightened. reinterpret the teachings to make...

If you start from a premise that the Buddha and all people who have written or edited Buddhist texts must be perfectly omniscient, then there maybe some factual issues. But if you start from a premise that the texts are spiritual guides and the authors, while qualified to guide us on a spiritual pat...

I really am not trying to be provocative, but I am finding the lack of a coherent and rationale explanation to this without ambiguity hugely frustrating, to the extent that I am on the verge of abandoning this practice altogether. Thanks for your time all clarification welcomed! :namaste: The probl...

Can someone explain to me "not self"? I saw someone post this on it: "Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's...

The Agamas are virtually identical to the Pali canon, so to say that the former are authoritative while the latter is not, is kinda splitting hairs, it seems to me.

Theravada is a beautiful tradition in itself and if you feel drawn to it, why not study it?

Plus, drinking heavily, or taking drugs and anti-depressants can also make some people feel better.....they could 'resonate' with that - doesn't mean its right or helpful? Depends on what your priorities are. These things may be more helpful in the short term. But I don't know if Buddhadharma is pr...