Dharma Wheel

"...I try to avoid getting my mind involved in discursive thoughts. I endeavour not to get involved in judgmental decisions of right and wrong. As such, I do not approve or disapprove of the Nazi's killing millions of people during the Second World War. I therefore stand neutral as to the death of ...

mindyourmind wrote:Would you agree that 'non-duality' is not 'neutrality'?

What do you mean by 'neutrality'?
In what context?

My understanding is that the reason why all beings strive for happiness, or to be free from suffering, is because the original nature, or original condition of the mind is clear and luminous, naturally free from all confusion and striving. In other words, the Mind's original nature is already the sa...

I always thought madhyamaka was that little cap worn by Jewish men.

Shunya (shunyata, frequently translated as "emptiness") is not a thing in itself. It is a word that describes, ultimately, the way things are, meaning that things have no self-arising essence, or possess qualities which are not relative to other conditioned things. So, for example, a rock doesn't ha...

Does a stone Buddha have rock nature?

From now on, I'm not settling for less than 100,000 of anything. Once you get used to it, the usual quantities just aren't quite as fulfilling. Money, pizza, love, whatever...serve it up on a three - tiered platter with extra onions!

It is good to set reasonably high goals for yourself, top achieve whatever it is you define as success,
but if you look to the fruits of that success as bringing you lasting happiness,
then that is where clinging is most evident, where problems arise.

What I find silly is when people see a good example of a human being (Jesus, Mother Theresa, Lao Tzu, etc) they say "oh they're so compassionate and wise they must be a Bodhisattva!" Isn't a bit arrogant to assume that Buddhism is the only religion that can produce kind and wise people? Yes. Well, ...

he was a jee-zo-sattva.
I mean, we might as well just make up a new category and maybe everybody will be happy.

may all beings be happy.

I guess 'nailed' could be taken to mean a number of things.
I should have said, "stapled".

My understanding is that thoughts arise but have no substance of their own. Concepts, conceptualization, is just a way of arranging thoughts. I think the point is to not get all wrapped up in the various arrangements, especially to the point where the thoughts start to be 'real things', taking on a ...

1.Christ died nailed to a cross.
2. Crosses are made of wood.
3. Wood comes from trees.
4. Buddha sat under a tree.
5. Buddha was enlightened.
6. Therefore, Christ was a Buddha.

That's all the logic I need to prove that Jesus was a bodhisattva.
Now excuse me, I am going to go drink a hippopotamus.

o say it over and over again. Dogs love their pups. And we make a religion of that kind of love? My quote is proper as I see it...the religion of the barbarians. Jesus is the barbarians king. If I was a barbarian I would call him king. "Those of my enemies who do not want me for their king, bring t...

Jesus was a bodhisattva, that is definite. Why? Because Amaterasu is an emanation of Vairocana, etc. It is common Buddhist practice to "tame the local spirits". How is that a problem from a Buddhist perspective? The story of Jesus tells the story of a person whose behavior was that of a bodhisattva...

What we know of Jesus, assuming that he ever existed, is essentially legends, many of which have been changed in the course of translation from Greek to Latin to English. So whether or not a person ever existed, perhaps named Jeezus or whatever who later became the basis of the legendary person in q...

denice wrote:examples of intentional ignorance ....your driving you throw a plastic bottle out the window....

Thank you. I think that is a pretty good example, and definitely a good example of stupid behavior!
But then, do you mean that ignorance is essentially not being mindful?

Ignorance that is relevant in relation to samsara is not simply not knowing - it is a darkness of the mind that creates the setting for wrong views, some argue that they (darkness and wrong views) are pretty much the same thing. in samsara, we definitely have wrong views. What does "darkness of the...

Ignorance is a term that refers to something you don't have (wisdom), not something you have. But there are different aspects of ignorance. Suppose you are going some place, but you are headed in the wrong direction, but you don't realize it. You can go on for a long time this way, which is basicall...

Traditionally, a buddhist mala (sanskrit="garland") has 108 beads. Divide by 4 and you have 27.
I don't know anything about tassles.