Dharma Wheel

So I guess the common deluded man is screwed. This is the view of "namdrol" not the great sages. The "common deluded man" is definitely screwed. At least until he finds the methods necessary to unscrew himself. This is my view and its fairly common. Such as being reborn in a Pure Land. Which appare...

So I guess the common deluded man is screwed. This is the view of "namdrol" not the great sages.

The body of light aka rainbow body is simply the body reverting back to the five lights of wisdom. The sign of this is that at death the body shrinks to a very small size. Probably a dumb question. I don't know much about Vajrayana. Once rainbow body is achieved does it revert back to human form if...

Do you think the stories represented in Chinese Pure Land are just that...stories? I mean they're aren't really comparable stories in Japanese or even Tibetan Pure Land. Though there are stories of maha siddhas being whisked away by Vajrayogini. \ That's what I've always wondered. You never hear ab...

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I think I remember reading from Paul William's book Doctrinal foundations of Mahayana that int the Lokottaravada school it was thought that if there were infinite sentient beings liberated there would be an infinite more deluded sentient beings still in samsara. So according to this belief Buddhas/B...

Hi, This came up in an earlier thread but it was a bit of a tangent so I would like to raise it again here. Buddha name recitation, on the surface, sounds like the simplest of methods, except that it should be supported by 信心/shinjin. Otherwise, isn't it just a method for calming the mind, no diffe...

Thank you Venerable for clarifying

Is there any way to empirically verify such a claim besides dying and seeing if you end up in the Pure Land? Once you reach a higher bodhisattva level you'll have no problem seeing buddha-lands far far away. Or perhaps even on the 1st bhumi you can converse with buddhas. Also, the Pratyutpannasamad...

Yeah, good old pureland. The beauty of it is, when the philosophical arguments come up, the attitude seems to be like "Dude! Relax! Have a little faith!". End of problem. Serve tea. Watch flowers. Your liberation from suffering is on the line. Such a carefree attitude is not advisable. It is better...

Enlightenment in the bardo meaning instant full Buddhahood and skipping all the bhumi levels a bodhisattva has to go through or enlightenment meaning one's consciousness is transferred to a buddha field and attains enlightenment there? The first one. My understanding is that in the bardo one has a ...

Hi Luke,

Enlightenment in the bardo meaning instant full Buddhahood and skipping all the bhumi levels a bodhisattva has to go through or enlightenment meaning one's consciousness is transferred to a buddha field and attains enlightenment there?

What's the difference between Nirguna Brahman of advaita and shunyata? They both seem to be very similar.

catmoon wrote:The spirit sitting on the lotus is seen at 1:26 in the video, occupying the left half of the screen. Yes, it's pretty impressionistic, but try looking at it for a while. A surpising amount of detail fits.

Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't looking carefully. It is very surprising indeed.

I found video footage of these same clouds that were posted. They are definitely not a hoax. Chung Li's spirit on a lotus flower is no where to be seen in the video though.

Hi remm those are some very nice pics. Did you take them all yourself? Are those types of clouds a common occurence there? And who's Mrs. Chung Li Chung?

Thank you all for all the great replies. I now have a better understanding of Buddha Nature.

Hi, didn't get any response in the previous thread. I'd appreciate if anyone can answer these. If something with an awakened nature can suffer, what good is it? How could something innately awakened become defiled? If your original Buddha nature became deluded, what’s to prevent it from becoming del...

Huifeng wrote:Was it that your "this" was referring to what came next? whereas I took your "this" to refer to the post that you had quoted above it, which I had written?

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

Funny stuff. The site I got it from didn't name you after the quote. I was thinking it was written by Thanissaro Bhikkhu to refute Buddha nature. If that's not the case then I'm curious to know how you would respond to your own inquiry?