Dharma Wheel

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Malcolm wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:22 pm

boda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:03 pm...faith is valued over reason.

Not in Buddhadharma.

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.

Bristollad wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:22 pm

boda wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 6:03 pm
So what’s the minimum practice requirement?

Refuge in the Three Jewels (and the concomitant behaviour that it entails).

I’m thinking that the sticky part is judging the concomitant behavior.

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...

clyde wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:56 am This is mindfulness of no object, nondual awareness, and when immersed in it, this is therefore the cessation of suffering, the end of discontent and grasping and fear, and the source of true love and compassion.
~ Kokyo Henkle

Funny, doesn’t love and compassion require subject/object?

Queequeg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:39 pm

FiveSkandhas wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:13 am Best wishes for safe and happy wayfairing!

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Love that statue. Saw it in person a few years ago.
Carved by Unkei's son. Amazing.

What’s the little hammer for?

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...

Atmosphere is everything in a good motivational aerobic workout.

Matylda wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:29 amhow 'student' may know if a teacher is or is not awakened???

If they’re curious they could simply ask them. Would not an awakened teacher be trustworthy???

The point is moot since you should be connecting with a teacher virtually during the pandemic.

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

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...