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entered into a sexual relationship with a student during a retreat. Sexual relationships between consenting adults are fine with me. Even when one is supposed to be a monk and participating in a retreat in an authoritative role? Doesn't bother me. started impersonating a monastic and claiming he wa...

Admin_PC posted an excellent link to a Buddhist bookstore in another thread. https://bcabookstore.mybigcommerce.com/books/ Yong Hua is not a legitimate student of Hsuan Hua, as he claims to be. If this is true, that's a problem. He shouldn't lie. entered into a sexual relationship with a student dur...

What I was trying to say was see what's local to you first and if there's a local community to support your practice, that'll be a lot more beneficial than wracking your brain trying to chose a school over finer points of doctrine. I see your point, but it's done now. The biggest hurdle, really, wa...

Traditionally, it was super uncommon to practice ... Pure Land alone, in private, without a community. But it's not uncommon now. Since Pure Land, according to the book Pure-Land Zen , "does not stress the master-disciple relationship and de-emphasizes the role of sub-schools, roshis/gurus and...

Sennin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:44 am Go no paradigm. No need for limitations.

I won't limit myself totally. Some limitations are quite useful.

How is anyone able to choose a school... Digging through scattered resources for the past week trying to understand what differentiates Jodo Shu, Jodo Shinshu, and Chan was tedious and discouraging. I wanted to give up and just pick anything, but I knew that I couldn't settle on a choice without som...

The book has exactly that, so I think you'll like it. I'll see what I can do and I'll get a few pictures posted. Thank you so much for the information and pictures. It's been extremely helpful. (...) I greatly appreciate the information you've shared. Thank you. The important thing is to get a prac...

In regards to The Daily Practices of Western Pure Land Buddhism, I do not believe there are any previews online. I could perhaps take some pictures, as long as it isn't enough to infringe on copyrights. Is there anything in particular you are looking for? One or two screenshots would be really help...

Just As You Are: Buddhism For Foolish Beings by Kaspalita Thompson and Satya Robyn provide instructions as well. This thread on Honen and Shinran has been helpful in differentiating Jōdo-shū from Jōdo Shinshū. I'm still trying to decide which of these traditions to choose. Promise of Amida does con...

Aside from Taming the Monkey Mind: A Guide to Pure Land Practice ( PDF ) by Cheng Wei-an, which is excellent, and The Pure Land Handbook by Master YongHua, which I'm about to start, are there any other published books that detail Pure Land practice? I'm looking for the best physical book that I can ...

Thanks, I'll have to check that out! Finished (re)reading Pure Land, Pure Mind ... I liked this exchange in Pure Land, Pure Mind: Question: Can women recite the buddha-name and get to be born in the Pure Land or not? // Answer: What kind of talk is this? Even the birds can get to be born in the Pur...

Reading the Pure Land Sutras is dispelling some of the concerns I had about the depth of the practice. It's not solely devotional as some summaries had led me to believe. Virtue and compassion are essential factors to making progress as well. It's probably linked above, but you can check out the 3 P...

My favorite Pure Land books so far: * River of Fire, River of Water by Taitetsu Unno * Taming the Monkey Mind by Cheng Wei-an * Pure Land Buddhism: Dialogues with Ancient Masters I started Pure-Land Zen, Zen Pure Land . There's a nice quote, presumably from J.C. Cleary, that succinctly illustrates h...

I would choose based on the teachers available. Thanks. Chan and Pure Land should not really be thought of as separate schools, they're rather Mahayana methods that can be used either together or apart. This is good to know. Pure Land Buddhism: Dialogues with Ancient Masters I started reading Dialo...

Seishin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:27 pm Have you heard about Tendai?

Yes.

It may be what you are looking for

I wish it was. Thank you, though.

I've narrowed down my school selection to Chan, Soto Zen, Chinese Pure Land (Jìngtǔzōng), and Japanese Pure Land (Jōdo Shinshū), and I'd like to combine the practices of Pure Land with Chan or Zen; Chan and Ōbaku Zen appear to integrate Pure Land practice by default. I was thinking about reading the...

They're nice resources, and thank you for them. No problem. :namaste: I really like the Itipiso (Buddhanussati) chant from Theravada. Me too. Buddhānussati was the first chant I memorized in Pali. Bhikkhu Bodhi taught it in a class on the four protective meditations . As a recent Mahayana convert, ...

According to scholars, buddhānusmṛti (Pali: buddhānussati; English: “Buddha-mindfulness” or “mindfulness of the Buddha”) was one of the original objects of meditation for lay followers in the Theravada tradition. In the Pali texts, Buddha Gautama often prescribed Buddha-mindfulness as a means to que...

I was just looking for a place to post this book. I started reading it today. It's been immensely helpful in clearing up some questions I had.

A good thing about a thread like this, is that it brings a lot of good info onto the table and folks can inform themselves. Of course. My point wasn't that these discussions shouldn't be allowed, but if they make you frustrated, passive-aggressive, and angry, perhaps—for your own sake, and for othe...