Dharma Wheel

Welcome. May you be happy.
I like this forum too. There are many intelligent persons around here.
I am looking forward to dharmic exchange...
Ayu

Seems to be not so hard to recognize. That what is a hindrance to dharma can be called "bad". That what closes the curtains of the mind. If it's so easy to recognise ego, and we know it's clouding the mind, why is it so difficult to eradicate? Habit accumulated since beginningless time I imagine. Y...

Happy New year to everybody.

I don't know what tradition you are practicing in lolwlydog, but for me prostrations will bring anything "bad" in me to the surface almost immediately...it gives me a good baseline of what I will be dealing with in mediation generally. That's great, but the question is how do you recognise the "bad...

No. I don't have such parts.

Did you ever see the future?

May all overcome suffering.

Once i had a job feeding lumber into gang saw. The job was excruciatingly dull and i suffered from the same thoughts going round and round hour after hour. One day I decided I would stop thinking entirely and see if it made the work go faster. It didn't. I just felt sort of dead. I expect this woul...

Yes... but i made it true afterwords.

Do you enjoy your work?

No, secretly it was never possible.

Did you ever climb a tower although you were afraid?

Reminds me of Nagarjunas "judgement-square", point 4:

1. Something is like this
2. Something is not like this
3. Something is either like this or like that
4. Something is neither like this nor like that.

Often it comes out that things are neither/nor.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/purpleslinky/2008/02/12/90021_0.jpg Sorry! Personally i'm quite happy that christmas is over. This hype every year is too much for me. :tongue: ... The true meaning of Christmas is that the very Being that you are is Truth. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “I a...

For example, if a reader seems to find only instructions on how to increase their merit, and he or she is uncertain about the rest of the contents, then the text is telling this person something very directly: “You lack the merit required for further teachings, and so you should carry out such-and-...

Johnny Dangerous wrote:What is it again, "Loving Kindness saves one from nihilism, emptiness saves one from absolutism".

Don't remember where I heard it.

Anyhow, it's good.

Then: why compassion is inseperable from emptyness? A self doesn't exist, but the phenomenons exist somehow. They don't come into appearance. Otherwise there's no need for compassion. There is a thin devision line between nihilism and the view of emptyness. :smile: There is compassion for those who...

Let's settle this down...
(Mein Englisch is so mies: wie sagt man "Lassen wir das sich mal setzen?")

Have a nice holiday.

... One consciousness succeeds another. Is there a "thin devision line" between two succeeding consciousnesses? Or is "thin devision line" just another consciousness? :sage: :smile: It always sounds nice. But the division line is in practical life - between false and less false. Is there another ne...

Then: why compassion is inseperable from emptyness?

A self doesn't exist, but the phenomenons exist somehow. They don't come into appearance.
Otherwise there's no need for compassion.

There is a thin devision line between nihilism and the view of emptyness.

The "truth" is in seeing how cittamatra and madhyamaka are the same. Things only exist to the extent we think or name them, outside of which they have no existence. Madhyamaka is simply a refinement of the idea that there is nothing outside of "mind". Hm, maybe "truth" was the wrong keyword i used....

The phenomenons are mind-made by appelation and concept. Concepts are illusions, they are only names, and if the name isn't given, the concept will not exist or could be named completely different... The basis of the phenomenons (the true existence) is not formed and it doesn't appear. (In German: ...

The phenomenons are mind-made by appelation and concept. Concepts are illusions, they are only names, and if the name isn't given, the concept will not exist or could be named completely different... The basis of the phenomenons (the true existence) is not formed and it doesn't appear. (In German: D...