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Wikipedia is also very unreliable and full of misinformation when it comes to dharma, Bolding this for emphasis heh. ... Its faults and strengths (it does have some!) both arise from the nature of the content creation and editing practices and (in this case) the subject. In general, anything which ...

What a great conversation-starter!


Kim

By that definition, I am not sure I ever had one. I have never been "overly excited" about it. I knew when I first encountered Buddhism that it was the path that best reflected my values, and that by living by its principles I would become a better person. So that is what I have tried to do ever si...

:good: Just to give quicker answers than you will find there - What materials are they looking at? It can't be just the Pali Canon alone or is it? Not just the Pali Canon. The sutras were transmitted orally for some time, then written down in Sanskrit and Pali (quite early) and some of them translat...

That's much clearer!


Kim

Questions remain: can "engaged Buddhism" support institutional Buddhism on the scale that the old state-suppoeted Buddhism did? Can engaged Buddhism carve out a brighter future history than the old statist model, or will it too fall prey to the siren songs of money and power? Can a non-state-suport...

... even though his mindset is very contrary at the moment. But is it okay to try to "make him a buddhist"? he shows no interest so far. ... Hi, Alastair, perhaps you could look at this from a slightly different angle, i.e. what helps us is not "being a Buddhist" but learning the dharma, and we can...

Due to mental relaxation and/or familiarization with non-conceptual states it may happen that instances of past experiences can pop up spontaneously. Just leave them as they are, fading away and don't self-identify. It can happen during meditation, too, and the advice is the same: just observe it, ...

...but it's not recommended. The site search has always been slow and stupid. Better to use a site-specific search on Google or DuckDuckGo or whatever you use:
site:https://www.dharmawheel.net/ sunnyata [or whatever you're looking for]


Kim

... Other posters elsewhere have pointed me to Nāgārjuna, so I'm listening. Having difficulty so far translating language from another time and place in to every day conversational English. It's not just a matter of translating language but of learning new concepts for which we haven't got exact En...

... I didn't want to be this way because not only society but in general it seems harder to date. A guy hitting on a girl faces less risk than me if I were to guess wrong on a guy. It's a lot of little things, sometimes I feel like life would have been better/easier if I wasn't this way and it make...

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Go for it, folks!

Kim

No, not for an instant. It's a good place to work - if "work" is the right word for what I'm doing.

If you could choose to see and interact with ghosts, would you?

Hi, Padmist,
This forum doesn't have an "Early Buddhism" sub-forum as such ("Sutra Studies" might be the closest match) but our sister site, DW Theravada has one. Start here if so inclined: https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewforum.php?f=29


Kim

Generally better to avoid it, IMO, for the reasons you give.
If you want to inspire someone to good deeds, you can usually point to a person other than yourself who is a good role model.


Kim

I was going to suggest metta meditation in response to the OP but I also agree with the two people who have replied already.


Kim

I've played with small quantities of it (it's easy to make) and it's fun.


Kim

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