Dharma Wheel

Rick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:31 am Are human beings like thunderstorms: arising not from an individual agent (Self, Zeus), rather from a confluence of causes and conditions?

…which, in turn arise from more causes and conditions

floatingbubbles07 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:10 pm I was wondering, if the law of karma says we have to repay it

Repay it to what it whom?
No, that’s not what karma is or how karma it works.

I don’t think it’s how the 18th vow works either.

Yes. Communicating with people who have disabilities has improved a little bit over the last 2,600 years.

When you are dead, why hurry?

Manchuria

The precepts can be very powerful. I used to get very drunk almost every night for about a decade, often falling down, or passing out, or throwing up. I was a real mess. I tried many times to stop, but the craving was too strong. Then when the occasion arose, I took the five precepts from my refuge ...

I am making several points. 1. Buddhism says that the outer world is impermanent. 2. The sutras do not explain the mechanisms how for example mountains and continents are impermanent. 3. Geology explains clearly the mechanisms how mountains are formed and how they are destroyed. Same with continent...

That is true ofcourse, but it does not take away the importance of Steno and those that come after him. Coming back to Buddhism, if you look at the pali texts, the agamas, or Mahayana sutras, mountains are often mentioned, but there seem to be no idea how they come about and how or when they cease....

Technically if you break a precept, you break a precept. The 5th one, as it was explained to me, is more of a safeguard for the previous 4 as well as to not cloud the mind. But ultimately you create your own consequences. Nobody else is holding you to it. I have been in the same situation. It all de...

I have listened to podcasts and videos of Christian Shorey, there several tens of them. He says that Nicolas Steno was the first person or the first geologist who discovered the basic laws of geology. They are called Steno's laws of stratigraphy. Also, Christopher Columbus discovered America. (In o...

Do you mean no cost to produce them? No, sorry, guess I wasn't clear, had some surgery today. Question is addressed to OP. Do they think all dharma and resources should be free, or just "live" teachings, and why? Right. But I think the question “Do you mean to produce them?” still applies...

We are told in the history of geology By whom? Just because geologists developed scientific methods that revealed the causes of erosion, that doesn’t mean others couldn’t figure it out, especially in the east where mudslides often reshape mountainsides many times within the span of a single lifetime.

Should dharma texts also be free? Do you mean no cost to produce them? No, sorry, guess I wasn't clear, had some surgery today. Question is addressed to OP. Do they think all dharma and resources should be free, or just "live" teachings, and why? Right. But I think the question “Do you me...

Market thinking : give the less possible, and take the maximum you can Intention : profit, pleasure, me, myself, my big car Spirituality : giving more than you take Intention : service For the two there is money. In market thinking it is the goal. In spirituality/dharma, it is a tool. Intention is ...

What do you mean by inconvenience? And really, zero pain, must be zero karma then too? Inconvenience because they’d have to go get antibiotics. Someone can be experiencing karmic fruition without it necessarily being pain. On karmic fruition: what if its especially that kind of fruition that the pe...

justsit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 1:41 am Should dharma texts also be free?

Do you mean no cost to produce them?

What exactly do you mean by “real”? Do you mean in the same way that you are real? Yes, that's a good way of putting it. Well I think that’s the trick. The first step (or next step, maybe) is to examine ‘in what sense does “me” have any real existence? It’s the same with the six realms, various Bud...

There are already more than a few dharma books publishers in the world who print Buddhist texts to be distributed free of charge. And there are plenty of places where one can go to receive live dharma teachings without having to pay for it. And there’s all the free stuff on the internet. I would rec...

In all honesty, how do you feel when you flip through an issue of Tricycle? How would the Buddha have felt? He got funded by the ‘ruling class’. It was Jesus who threw the money lenders out of the temple. Considering how terribly awful a Buddhist magazine catering to popular culture in the 1990s mi...

I accept that the only possible way I could reach the Fulfilled Pure Land is by Amida's Primal Vow, assuming the Pure Land is real. But I'm not always confident of that assumption, and sometimes it feels like a mere hypothetical. There are moments when I feel that it is very real, and this brings r...