Dharma Wheel

The way I see it, we use "buddh-ism" as the starting point. We dispense with the "-ism" as we proceed.

So the question is, "how do we recognise our own ignorance"? A tough one. Maybe the buddhanature is learning to solve your own "problems" and not to refer to someone else. I agree that practicing the Dharma is about discovering things for ourselves. But when it comes to pointing out our own ignoran...

How does a student of Buddhism begin to learn to recognize the 'root of samsara' ..? In this book I'm reading it says that the 'root of samsara' is the habit of impure perception. Or the accumulation of bad habits I believe impure perception is ignorance. So the question is, "how do we recognise ou...

Wesley1982 wrote:How does a student of Buddhism begin to learn to recognize the 'root of samsara'..?

By 'root of saṃsāra' do you mean 'i-ness', clinging to a concept of self?

I thought Bhaisajyaguru belonged to the eastern Buddha Land Abhirati, traditionally. What would be the correct way to prounounce the name?.. Bha-aisha-jya-guru Bhaiṣajyaguru (भैषज्यगुरु) is pronounced Bhai-shaj-ya-gu-ru, that is, if it is pronounced as it is written. It might be pronounced Bhai-sha...

Hello Mike, welcome to the forum.

Challenge23 wrote:These experiences will serve to confirm whatever premise you used to begin with. Which one is Really Really True?

None of them? All of them? 'One' seems to be an arbitrary number. From what you describe, it doesn't really matter. This is my point of view too.

Exquisite. The third eye indicates that it is probably White Tara.

Hello DetachedWatcher, welcome to the forum.

It gets even more interesting when you start posting.

mujushinkyo wrote:Love!

Where?

Come on everyone, let's double our efforts to be enlightened. Uh huh but ya know the upgrade from 60 watts to 80 watts alone can sometimes be daunting to some... And sometimes it's hard to tell if there's any remarkable diff between one with a master and one who doesn't especially when there's a bl...

If the Dharma is like medicine, as my lama once described it, and if we trust our physician, then we simply take it as it is given. If it works, we realise that our physician was right in administering it. If not, we may then choose to change our physician. At no point do we actually need to underst...

heart wrote:Interestingly my Guru said the same thing yesterday. He said before there was many realized masters but no disciples and now there are many disciples but very few realized masters.

Come on everyone, let's double our efforts to be enlightened.

Please get rid of the picture of Hsi Yun. It doesn't suit you, and it's a little offensive for me to see this picture of a great Zen Master attached to your words. It is very confusing when members of this forum provide images of their teachers as their avatars. I am just as guilty, my teacher is a...

I get $100.00 USD per hour as a freelance writer. To coach a person full time for two weeks and to make sure they get it right -- that's intensive and it takes a lot of effort. So, of course I have to charge some money, unless I believe the person has such unbelievable potential that I'm driven to ...

Once you apply proper scientific and philosophical rigour and recognise the distinctions between philosophy and science, it's pretty clear that there are issues of philosophical interpolation involved in such assertions. A good point, Anders. Although these issues may seem petty to a scientist, the...

Believe it or not, there are people in the world who will only take Zen seriously, and do the work it takes to get kensho, if they have to pay for it! It's perverse, but that's how it is. I have only heard this justification from those who are making the money. If it has any truth at all, it would ...

Are kensho and satori a matter of degree?

Anders wrote:"The instructor told us to do a 45 minute meditation. I nailed it in ten."

That's my favourite too.

I have a common mistake that beginners make: Trying to be Tibetan... or Japanese, or Thai, or Sri Lankan, or Korean... but especially Tibetan.