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So I need a buddhism that will accommodate by brahman view. Buddhism cannot accommodate the brahman view. If all beings come from a brahman, then when one being attains enlightenment, all beings must also become enlightened at the same time since the brahman is shared by all beings. It is like drop...

Since we are playing the blame game, let us not forget about the Japanese zen buddhists during hte 2nd world war. But blame who? The people involved or the religion? There is an important difference between a war or battle that can be justified by what the religion taught and a war or battle that c...

Here's the view of someone who had practised Sufism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooOgXkY-7Oo

This is a deep philosophical conundrum. The fundamental problem is that the verb 'to exist' has a limited scope of applicability. Strictly speaking, only conditioned phenomena exist, but they have no intrinsic being . So they neither truly exist (=eternalism) nor do not exist (=nihilism). But this ...

Hello everyone, I know that tibetan buddhism as it is taught is peacefull and as it practiced by the vast majority tibetan buddhists, I know they value peace and compassion, but it occured to me that most of my favourite tantric buddhist masters of all time were actually technically killers accordi...

A huge paradigm shift in how people live is all that will change it. It can come through us being forced to by the cataclysmic stuff one can imagine, a gradual shift to more sustainable ways of living, or both. I imagine it will be some degree of both, but can't predict the ratio, and neither can a...

This is kind of a sister post to the one in the Mahayana forum about Buddhas and Bodhisattvas being real, because I figured the Tibetan/Vajrayana approach was different enough to maybe give a different answer. Are Buddhas like Tara or Vairocana, bodhisattvas like Manjushri or Chenrezig, Dharma prot...

You have not explained why arhats need to be awakened by the Buddha. I have not even touched that topic, so what explanation do you want? Because I used it to argue for a non-causal path. I was suggesting previously that Arhats following a causal path attained only temporary liberation and need to ...

If analytical cessation is all that is needed, then the Buddha need not awaken arhats so as to lead them to buddhahood. It is a type of cessation, and as such can apply to both the complete elimination of klesavarana and jneyavarana, as the provided quote from the Cheng Weishi Lun states. It does n...

Thanks to the 84,000 translation group this magnificent sutra is now in English. For those who can read the Tibetan original of this sutra, what is the Sanskrit equivalent of 'intrinsic nature' ? The sutra seems to make it a synonym for suchness or reality etc. chos nyid (dharmata) To be crystal cl...

Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 4:10 pm Thanks to the 84,000 translation group this magnificent sutra is now in English.

For those who can read the Tibetan original of this sutra, what is the Sanskrit equivalent of 'intrinsic nature' ?

The sutra seems to make it a synonym for suchness or reality etc.

chos nyid (dharmata)

The cessation achieved by arhats is from following a causal path. That is why the Buddha has to awaken them subsequently from their temporary cessation and lead them to buddhahood. Analytical cessation applies to both sravakas and bodhisattvas. If analytical cessation is all that is needed, then th...

The path to permanent liberation is non-causal. Among the three unconditioned dharmas (AKB I.5-6, vol 1, p 59-61) there are two types of cessation: with and without analysis, of which the former means nirvana, and the latter just ordinary cessation of things. So liberation has not only a cause in g...

SunWuKong wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 4:19 pm In samadhi, the "conditioned" and "unconditioned" don't look any different at their source. That's why it's called samadhi.

"Conditioned" and "unconditioned" are merely labels, conventions for communication in the relative via language. The state of buddhahood is ineffable.

there is a path to temporary liberation and a path to permanent liberation. So, there is agreement on the matter of there being a path one needs to follow in order to become liberated. The path for temporary liberation is causal. The path to permanent liberation is non-causal. That is how I look at...

Yes, but why should this imply that the relative is all there is? No such implication was made. The point is that there is no unconditioned apart from the conditioned, furthermore, that there is a path to liberation. It is actually the other way round, there is no conditioned without the unconditio...

As I mentioned before, logically speaking, there is no path that can take a practitioner from the conditioned to the unconditioned. This is because what is conditioned and what is unconditioned are mutually exclusive. That is an erroneous logic that fails to take account of what conditioned and wha...

Accumulation of merit and wisdom is not denied. then it is very much a relative and causal path to buddhahood Without the unconditioned there is no liberation from the conditioned. Udana 8.3 'Good son, the term 'unconditioned' is also a word provisionally invented by the First Teacher. Now, if the ...

Accumulation of merit and wisdom is not denied. then it is very much a relative and causal path to buddhahood Without the unconditioned there is no liberation from the conditioned. Udana 8.3 'Good son, the term 'unconditioned' is also a word provisionally invented by the First Teacher. Now, if the ...

There is a path to cessation/liberation and there is a 'path' to buddhahood. Only if you do not accept the ekayana doctrine is there three paths. Not if the path of liberation must be travelled before the path to buddhahood. The former path is a path in the relative. The latter path is a 'path' in ...