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- Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:23 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
It is a cosmogenesis story: wash, rinse, repeat. It appears as though they're just different stories, only Buddhism has no creation story that I'm aware of. I don't see how they're mutually exclusive stories. For instance, the same basic outline of how I was dependently originated would apply to Go...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
It excludes prime movers. And there indeed is a Buddhist cosmogony. Endless cycles of development and dissolution? If so, that’s not a creation story. It is a cosmogenesis story: wash, rinse, repeat. It appears as though they're just different stories, only Buddhism has no creation story that I'm a...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 4:01 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
Dependent origination excludes theism as a valid explanation of the world and the beings who inhabit it. Since dependent origination is the Dharma, and since the Dharma excludes theism as a valid explanation of the world and the beings who inhabit it, Dharma is atheist. QED. Why would dependent ori...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:34 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
Dependent origination excludes theism as a valid explanation of the world and the beings who inhabit it. Since dependent origination is the Dharma, and since the Dharma excludes theism as a valid explanation of the world and the beings who inhabit it, Dharma is atheist. QED. Why would dependent ori...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:03 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?
1. The Dharma has nothing in common with the religions of Europe. The Dharma is profoundly atheistic, and values reason and experience over dogma. One essential common ground that all religions share is not necessarily the existence of a God but the existence of an ultimate authority that has speci...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:15 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?
A flat denial with no reasons given and from an authority figure, and even this mere observation not allowed, much less any questioning. A good demonstration of valuing faith over reason.
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 7:19 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?
I’m thinking that the sticky part is judging the concomitant behavior.Bristollad wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:22 pmRefuge in the Three Jewels (and the concomitant behaviour that it entails).
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:03 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Atheism vs Buddhism (was Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?)
- Replies: 219
- Views: 2377
Re: Non Cultural Buddhists: What Made You Stay?
1. The Dharma has nothing in common with the religions of Europe. The Dharma is profoundly atheistic, and values reason and experience over dogma. One essential common ground that all religions share is not necessarily the existence of a God but the existence of an ultimate authority that has speci...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:57 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: Three Types of Zazen
- Replies: 15
- Views: 382
Re: Three Types of Zazen
Funny, doesn’t love and compassion require subject/object?
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:28 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Homeless Mendicant
- Replies: 13
- Views: 310
Re: The Homeless Mendicant
What’s the little hammer for?Queequeg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:39 pmLove that statue. Saw it in person a few years ago.FiveSkandhas wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:13 am Best wishes for safe and happy wayfairing!
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Carved by Unkei's son. Amazing.
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 2:44 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: New here with question on Gay
- Replies: 74
- Views: 2279
Re: New here with question on Gay
This is getting off topic. To bring it back to the post of self compassion or love, which is something I heard mentioned about when it comes to being gay as something that helped people, I still repeat my previous post about how I have tried taking that advice in the past but nothing ever came of i...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:11 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Coup Aerobics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 228
Re: Coup Aerobics
Atmosphere is everything in a good motivational aerobic workout.
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Are Zen teachers awakened?
- Replies: 245
- Views: 16989
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:47 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What would you choose in this scenario?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1043
Re: What would you choose in this scenario?
The point is moot since you should be connecting with a teacher virtually during the pandemic.
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:45 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Are Zen teachers awakened?
- Replies: 245
- Views: 16989
Re: Are Zen teachers awakened?
This is a question for Zen students (not Zen teachers nor about other traditions, only those that follow from Bodhidharma). Is it your understanding that all Zen teachers have had an awakening (commonly expressed in Zen as “seeing one’s true nature”) though to varying degrees? It’s my understanding...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:50 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Zen/Attain True Self
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2476
Re: Zen/Attain True Self
Can someone explain what one's true self is? I had thought that Buddhism doesn't deal with true self but I have been watching some Zen Dharma teachings and they talk about attaining one's true self. I think the source of my confusion came from an Alan Watts video where he says Zen doesn't create th...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Modernity and its many faults and problems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1314
Re: Modernity and its many faults and problems
Our scientific development leads to nowhere. We only add suffering. We in modern rich countries live in comfort, but what about undeveloped countries in Africa and Asia? Before globalization people in such places suffered less. Nowadays these people work for us. The most of clothing are made in Ind...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:16 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Modernity and its many faults and problems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1314
Re: Modernity and its many faults and problems
Maybe not as expedient a solution as a solar flare but I learned about the degrowth movement the other day. Sounds promising.
https://degrowth.org/
https://degrowth.org/
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:37 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Modernity and its many faults and problems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1314
Re: Modernity and its many faults and problems
It seems to me (and others) that modernity is nothing but a psychosis, the Christian religion failed due to the power-hungry church, and we covered it up with what we call modernity. It's easy to see in communist and nazi propaganda, i.e. the state becomes the image of God. But modernity is not sus...
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: CBD oil
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7305
Re: CBD oil
Okay. I agree so far. I have only experience with THC. It's getting stronger these decades, because the plants are pumped up with artificial light etc. I can't even tolerate the smell of it. But if you say CBD is mild - I think I do not get what mild means. Like chamomilla tea or valerian? Yes, act...