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My question is although the whole is made of parts, and is seen as not inherently existing because it is a composite that is basically empty, on what level must we understand the whole that the parts work so diligently to create? Is there no merit to what this is? Or is the merit given as the expla...

Oh come on now. :lol: Padmavomsamba. The point is, this conclusion is wrong: The knower is still self because it still knows itself which suggests self or that it knows it’s own existence which suggests self. The knower isn’t a self. There isn’t an “it” that still knows. The “it” and “self” are imp...

Mr Potato Head isn’t there until you stick the face pieces into the potato. The knower isn’t the self. The knower is like the potato and The self is like the composition of plastic face features stuck onto the potato. The problem is, when Mr. Potato Head looks into a mirror, he only sees the composi...

Zen is the Japanese word for Chan,
which is the Chinese word for Dhyana.

It might be helpful if you also posed this question in your native language.

Sorry, but it doesn’t sound as though anything has been given up at all. Still holding onto everything. More like having one’s shoes on the wrong feet. They are on, but somehow it’s not right. Buddhism doesn’t teach that ‘nothing is real’. Buddhism does teach that because phenomena are composites, t...

Nihilism is the notion that nothing exists, no form of Buddhism teaches that nothing exists. What are some of the important things that Buddhism Teaches dont exist though, as well as, what is the philosophy that certain things aren’t “real” that the Buddhist Dharmic perception is expounding? Rabbit...

Hi In my intuition and throu Pâli and Samskrit sûtra I rekon that Buddha never spoke of no-self. I see that some scholars also see like that, a minority. I see Buddha teaching using a Via Negativa kind of way, (which He say was often misunderstood for a nichilistic one by peoples in His times) keep...

truthb wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 4:16 amIf we were to let go of everything the different schools say. Everything that Bichiren Said, And just read the Lotus sutra.

I know it was a typographical error,
but I’m just really liking the name, “Bichiren”

Why not just burn one candle a hundred-thousand times?

Professionally, I am in the laugh business. My when lama friend visited the United States on two separate occasions, he gave me little statues of “Laughing Buddha” so I figured maybe there was a reason, and that maybe I should use that as an avatar too. This “laughing Buddha” is regarded as an image...

LastLegend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:53 pm How is aware of awareness aware?

The same way that you can see you are seeing!

An easy experiment anyone can do to demonstrate the separation of awareness and conceptuality is to focus on hearing, and then when one is focused on hearing, to simply observe what is happening with seeing or with the other sensory functions. For example, if someone suddenly says, “Shhh! Listen! Do...

One can be aware (of the fact that) one is aware. You obviously know you are aware. But then, are you aware of awareness itself, or simply aware of the fact of awareness? (I am aware of the fact of dinosaurs even though I have never been aware of a dinosaur) Everything is either awareness, or an obj...

I am eager to take a jab at another post that I read in a sub forum on Dharmawheel if that doesn’t make people upset. The question was asked whether “the knower” is different from “the known” ( cognitions). The knower is in meditation which emptiness is seen, that knower simply knows and that is, n...

Psychedelic experiences can open your mind to a lot of things (hence the name, ‘psychedelic’ meaning ‘mind expanding’) but it’s still the same mind. It hasn’t really gone anywhere. Psychedelic experiences can also allow one to experience the Dharma teachings in a seemingly more profound way. I say, ...

LastLegend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 4:00 pm The impression I get is perception is non-conceptual and conceptual. I agree with this if that’s true. Conceptual here means including language arises in mind right?

Where else would it arise?

Wrong answer. Which appearance isn't a convention? Which convention isn't an appearance? This point is explained correctly by Gorampa. In brief, conventions do not generate appearances, for example, calling the appearance of sand “water” does not change that appearance into water. First there an ap...

"Refrain from denigrating other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and from attacking Shingon and Tendai...refrain from indulging in disputes with men of wisdom or when encountering people with other [Buddhist] practices...Toward people of other [Buddhist] persuasions or practices, refrain from saying, with ...

a little of both. although trapping the rabbit would probably be easier to deal with... When I read: “...is the solution to get the girlfriend by whatever means necessary or is it to not want the girlfriend in the first place?” That tells me your whole approach to romance needs some adjusting. Firs...