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by LastLegend
Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:14 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Wrong practise?
Replies: 8
Views: 2153

Re: Wrong practise?

Don't beat yourself too hard. It's not that bad. That's how most Asian lay Buddhists practice. I think as long as she is a decent person, it's all good man. Not everyone wants liberation, so being a decent human sounds pretty good to me.
by LastLegend
Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:08 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great Nibbana = annihilation, eternal, or something else thread
Replies: 2423
Views: 595376

Re: Why has annihilationism proliferated Theravada so profusely?

How can you annihilate something that cannot be seen or touched? :D
by LastLegend
Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:48 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Are theravada practicioners more accomplished?
Replies: 21
Views: 6341

Re: Are theravada practicioners more accomplished?

Zen is hard work
So is Theravada
by LastLegend
Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:43 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
Replies: 156
Views: 35464

Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?

Maybe, maybe not...all the time actions, and thoughts, get lumped into a single category of, or universal to, human behavior, and that just isn't so...(in my experience)... [ You are right. It may or may not arise. But I am talking about the mental habitual reactions that we have been used to for s...
by LastLegend
Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:05 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
Replies: 156
Views: 35464

Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?

ok point taken.

however, prevention or caution is also important as a certain consciousness arises when there is a certain contact with the object of that consciousness.
by LastLegend
Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:55 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
Replies: 156
Views: 35464

Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?

And Theravadin monks do follow strict Vinaya rules. Not directly looking at women or touching women is like one of those rules. "Like" one of those rules? It is not one of those rules at all, the way you've written it here - it is a matter of intention, not ritual avoidance. Yes...ritual ...
by LastLegend
Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:44 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?
Replies: 156
Views: 35464

Re: Richard Gombrich - Comfort or Challenge?

From my understanding, there exists no female monks in Cambodian Theravada tradition in Vietnam. Note that there is also Vietnamese Theravada tradition which is constituted of mostly ethnic Vietnamese while the Cambodian Theravada tradition is constituted of ethnic Cambodians. Vietnam has many peopl...
by LastLegend
Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:50 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Where are you from?
Replies: 138
Views: 206184

Re: Where are you from?

I was born in Vietnam. Currently, I live in United States. So United States.
by LastLegend
Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:48 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
Replies: 36
Views: 11534

Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)

tiltbillings wrote:
LastLegend wrote:
tiltbillings wrote: So, how do we experience the mind?
Right now you experience mind, do you not?
But that does not tell us anything useful.
If the mind is empty, then phenomenal things are interdependent as described in Dependent Origination.
by LastLegend
Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:42 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
Replies: 36
Views: 11534

Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)

So, how do we experience the mind? Right now you experience mind, do you not? Just not directly. When you become an Arahant, you will also experience mind at a different level. ...is to give us a large load of conceptualization about the mind. Yes what you said is true. But it is also true that you...
by LastLegend
Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:33 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)
Replies: 36
Views: 11534

Re: Tathāgatagarbha & Buddha-dhatu (DFFA version)

Hello folks.

I just want to say the mind is empty, cannot be conceptualized, touched, imagined. It's what we experience everyday. But it is nowhere to be seen or observed even at subatomic level because it is empty.
by LastLegend
Fri May 20, 2011 3:20 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Replies: 205
Views: 45928

Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature

With reference to your original statement. You need to relearn what sakkāya diṭṭhi is. No thanks. Wow!!! Willfull ignorance. You don't understand Buddha-nature from a Mahayana standpoint and you do not want to learn what the Buddha has to say about things. I will now back out of this room. Thank yo...
by LastLegend
Fri May 20, 2011 3:14 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Replies: 205
Views: 45928

Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature

If Buddha nature is defined as something that all beings have or some capacity that all beings have then what is wrong with Buddha nature is that it is just one more way of constructing a doctrine of self....Buddha nature seems to be a doctrine of self based on the illusion that there is a self whi...
by LastLegend
Fri May 20, 2011 4:25 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Replies: 205
Views: 45928

Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature

alan wrote:LL,
You are officially reprimanded on two counts.
One, not knowing that of which you speak.
Two, being a person with no sense of humor or awareness.
I punish you to being banished until further notice.
I don't know what you are saying either...it's all good man. But let's stay on topic friend.
by LastLegend
Fri May 20, 2011 4:25 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Replies: 205
Views: 45928

Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature

I am sure they are, but I was just avoiding the confusion in what I was trying to say.

And there are some Dhamma police here.