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Is a shrine important
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This stupa conflict illustrates why DW is not a substitute for a teacher that one trusts with these kinds of questions.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
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Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
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Yeah, otherwise everybody in Afghanistan would still be Buddhists.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:21 pmI don't care how you say stuff, I'm just not accepting an argument based on the idea that an individuals Karmic disposition towards Dharma makes Asian people somehow "more capable" Dharma-wise.Queequeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:19 pmWhat would be the acceptable terminology to identify the distinction?Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:16 pm Right well, it is no more a part of you than it is of a "convert".
There is more than enough of that kind of attitude in some circles, and I think it's the last thing people should be advocating for..that's why I piped up. I mean, you do you, but I'm not buying a claim like that.
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...which is why I said to consult with a teacher, and why I shared things taught by my teacher.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:25 pm This stupa conflict illustrates why DW is not a substitute for a teacher that one trusts with these kinds of questions.
And that is the opposite of “oh don’t be so elitist with all your rules and stuff”.
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So did I. My teachers talk about this kind of stuff in the seeming opposite way as yours do. That's the trouble with trying to get "official" answers for Buddhism from a forum.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:27 pm...which is why I said to consult with a teacher, and why I shared things taught by my teacher.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:25 pm This stupa conflict illustrates why DW is not a substitute for a teacher that one trusts with these kinds of questions.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
-Khunu Lama
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared
-Khunu Lama
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Re: Is a shrine important
True!Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:29 pmSo did I. My teachers talk about this kind of stuff in the seeming opposite way as yours do. That's the trouble with trying to get "official" answers for Buddhism from a forum.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:27 pm...which is why I said to consult with a teacher, and why I shared things taught by my teacher.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:25 pm This stupa conflict illustrates why DW is not a substitute for a teacher that one trusts with these kinds of questions.
EMPTIFUL.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
Re: Is a shrine important
I didn't say that. How many ways can I say this?Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:21 pmI don't care how you say stuff, I'm just not accepting an argument based on the idea that an individuals Karmic disposition towards Dharma makes Asian people somehow "more capable" Dharma-wise.Queequeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:19 pmWhat would be the acceptable terminology to identify the distinction?Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:16 pm Right well, it is no more a part of you than it is of a "convert".
I have friends who are 100% non-Asian, who have grown up in a Buddhist community. There's a palpable difference when a person grows up trying to reconcile the world they live in from the beginning with notions like karma, rebirth, Dharma, than when they grow up trying to reconcile it with atoms and photons, or alternatively, God and personal relationships with Jesus.
You guys are the ones who glommed onto a part of a comment and just saw red and apparently can't get off of it. That's your problem, not mine.
I don't need an answer to this, but consider how your life would have been had your parents been devout, practicing Buddhists, as your grandparents, as your aunts and uncles, and your neighbors. If you don't think it would have made a lick of difference in who you are, then we'll just have to leave it at that.
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There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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Re: Is a shrine important
About being born into Buddhist family.. one of my teachers said, more or less..”No one is born Buddhist, and no one is born into a Buddhist family..if our karma is right we meet Dharma. If not we don’t”...something like that.
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