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You should also consider the numerous Jatakas and Avadanas. There are many stories in which the Bodhisattva or sometimes a Deva or even a Rishi takes rebirth as a human, or as an animal, as many different kinds of animals. Are these created bodies? In some Jatakas Indra/Sakra appears in a magically...

I would love to see Zen and Mahamudra and Dzogchen masters writing or talking together about that kind of things with the spirit of understand the common grounds. Not trying to make their differences greater. That's something I dont understand. You should read Nubchen, Longchenpa, and Jigme Lingpa....

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tingdzin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:49 am Perhaps we should allow Meido to respond.

No one’s stopping him.

Given your first-hand acquaintance with Soto Zen teachers in the Suzuki lineage, perhaps you will share your observations and opinions about SFZC teachers, teachings, etc. Do you agree with Matylda that Soto Zen teachers in America are not realized? And also what was presented about “the cultural a...

Given your first-hand acquaintance with Soto Zen teachers in the Suzuki lineage, perhaps you will share your observations and opinions about SFZC teachers, teachings, etc. Do you agree with Matylda that Soto Zen teachers in America are not realized? And also what was presented about “the cultural a...

Given your first-hand acquaintance with Soto Zen teachers in the Suzuki lineage, perhaps you will share your observations and opinions about SFZC teachers, teachings, etc. Do you agree with Matylda that Soto Zen teachers in America are not realized? And also what was presented about “the cultural a...

But when you have so-called Zen teachers who deny kensho as the gate, and negate the path itself in favor of what is essentially an intellectual conceit regarding original enlightenment Specifically in light of the fact that Dogen categorically rejected the Tendai doctrine of original awakening.

Sharf has shown that the New Buddhism was distinct from traditional or classical Zen on multiple levels. He disputes the notion of a “pure experience” that can be uncoupled from its institutional and doctrinal constraints, noting that classical Zen is one of the most scholastic and ritualistic form...

Please do. I like films that use the medium as allegory, whereas at points this was like listening to a speech and monologues. I think you can get the same points across better by using allegory without literally telling the audience the actual point of the story. Now GG should do an evil barbie mo...

I was planning on watching it. I expected it to not just be all fun and poppy, as I can’t see Greta Gerwig doing a fluffy, traditional Barbie thing. I’ll comment once I’ve seen it. Please do. I like films that use the medium as allegory, whereas at points this was like listening to a speech and mon...

Yes. Categorically. If they are aware when they are asleep, it isn't deep sleep. Not only that, people can claim anything. But how can one test the claim, "I am continuously aware in a state of deep sleep"? I thought there were Buddhist practices that had correspondence to this experience...

Further, Dosho Port writes: When the Meiji Soto reformers first began collaborating with each other to determine what they could identify as the central practice they offered householders (in order both to shore up their congregations and hopefully convert some of those at the gates who were carryin...

If you look at my original post, I was noting the structural difference between Japanese Soto Shu Zen and American Soto Zen. I didn’t say one was better, only that American Soto Zen may be seen as a distinct tradition. Real? That’s for the students to determine. (I’m not affiliated with any Zen tea...

If you look at my original post, I was noting the structural difference between Japanese Soto Shu Zen and American Soto Zen. I didn’t say one was better, only that American Soto Zen may be seen as a distinct tradition. Real? That’s for the students to determine. (I’m not affiliated with any Zen tea...

For me...the Third Turning is definitive. If this is the case, do you accept the true self taught in the Nirvana Sutra literally? If not, how can you say all Third Turning Sutras are definitive? If so, how can you claim to be anything other than an eternalist in Buddhist drag? I think the Yogacara ...

Are you denying the experience of those who claim to have a continuous sense of a 'knower' into deep sleep? Yes. Categorically. If they are aware when they are asleep, it isn't deep sleep. Not only that, people can claim anything. But how can one test the claim, "I am continuously aware in a s...

Are you denying the experience of those who claim to have a continuous sense of a 'knower' into deep sleep? Yes. Categorically. If they are aware when they are asleep, it isn't deep sleep. Not only that, people can claim anything. But how can one test the claim, "I am continuously aware in a s...

Where is awareness? Perhaps, enjoying placidly because the grossest levels of the mind are not working. It is a fact that all living beings experience bliss (Ananda in Sanskrit) in deep sleep, Yawn. Boring. Turiya is just an Advaita:imputation, Are you denying the experience of those who claim to h...