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You could become a renunciate sramana-sadhu, but you'd still be engaged with the world, albeit to a lesser extent, with receiving lunch alms from lay people, medical care, housing, books, etc.

Not sure if this counts as "muscular buddhism" but Zen has had a history of connection to the martial arts, going back to Shaolin in China and later in Japan; the mixing of Zen with the martial arts was sometimes latent, sometimes obvious. I don't see that so much apparent or at all with Theravada t...

bhikkhuification of lay people. Lay people can wear whatever they like. In certain jobs a dress code is required and you don't have much choice, for example uniforms or professional looking clothes, office-type clothes, etc. It would be a pretty boring world if all lay people wore the same things, s...

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I do recall one Sutta where the Buddha or one of his chief disciples was about to give a talk at a lay woman's house and she was wearing a head cover. The bhikkhu considered this disrespectful and only gave the talk after she removed the head cover.

I know this is a superficial questions, but I've been thinking; when I grew up boys had crew cuts and women long hair; boys pants, women skirts. I know in Islam there is a lot of crossdressing/transvestivism and what not. Does anyone know of any Buddhist dress code for laypeople other than the colo...

Then there is the WW2 joke and anatta, :oops: :focus: Not off topic and good joke. :thumbsup: It is related since it's dealing with the parts of a human and what makes a "person." Moderator note: some off topic posts, comparative religion discussion moved to the connections to other paths sub-forum...

The if there is soul, there is something for sure. And Jesus brought dead alive according to Bible and cured blind and incapacitated if i remember correctly. You don't believe that though, do you? It is clearly hagiography. There are currently seven billion people alive today and the Population Ref...

Jesus was as deluded as Epicurus For a deluded guy, He sure did a lot of miracles... :thinking: Did he though? Or was it just hagiography? See also our comparative religions site: https://dharmapaths.com/ Buddhism has some of that too, for example a Sutta saying the Buddha walked and talked at birt...

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See also our comparative religions site:
https://dharmapaths.com/

Other traditions (Zen) emphasize the importance of posture, giving reasons from simple stability and comfort needed for longer sits to enabling right energy flows, conducive to a clearer and more vigorous meditation. Yes, I've noticed that too, especially in some Chan traditions. This tradition req...

“Another person has practiced the making of merit by giving as well as by moral discipline to a high degree; but he has not undertaken the making of merit by meditation. With the breakup of the body, after death, he will be reborn among humans in a favorable condition. Or he will be reborn in the c...

cappuccino wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:39 am

Buddha refuted wrong views, why can I not?

You can make your case in the other threads, great nibbana thread, etc but not here in the Classical sub-forum.