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- Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:59 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu's Blog
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4661
Re: Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu's Blog
http://thebahiyablog.blogspot.ca/2015/06/third-anniversary-issue-challenge.html" I just read his June 6 blog entry and I get the feeling that I'm reading the early beginnings of a cult. Not that I'm sure what Pannobhasa is trying to organize should be called a 'cult,' but I think that word as a pej...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:46 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu's Blog
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4661
Re: Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu's Blog
Paññobhāsa is back in the United States after spending a year and a half in Myanmar, and is now looking to organize a group of 'serious' spiritual practitioners (whom he unfortunately calls 'Dharma Samurai--' a term liable to attract inflated egos.) http://thebahiyablog.blogspot.ca/2015/06/third-ann...
- Sun Nov 30, 2014 6:25 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ingram, et al - "Hard Core Dharma" & claims of attainment
- Replies: 1005
- Views: 83347
Re: Ingram, et al - "Hard Core Dharma" & claims of attainmen
That is helpful. So, everyone who claims to be ariya can present their vision of the Buddha's teachings and and it should not be commented upon. Don't like this thread, don't read it. Not that it shouldn't be commented on, just that it really isn't worth the heated exchange that is currently going ...
- Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:36 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ingram, et al - "Hard Core Dharma" & claims of attainment
- Replies: 1005
- Views: 83347
Re: Ingram, et al - "Hard Core Dharma" & claims of attainmen
I hope you all recall that the first schism was (supposedly) caused by disagreement over the fallibility of arahants. We all have an implicit understanding about the nature of arahantship. Some of us inform that understanding through a strict interpretation of suttas, while others will incorporate o...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:50 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: BuDhaGirl Mindful Jewelry
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1704
Re: BuDhaGirl Mindful Jewelry
Thanks tilt. Bought an anklet.
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
Here's a dialogue I had on another forum with a 'teacher' . The teachers' responses are full of crap. This is what I would say: You can only start from where you are, and quite frankly there is no way you cannot have a goal or an agenda in mind when trying to do the practice. Well said. Though, if ...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
It sounds to me like you might be misreading Hakuin's story. First, he is not holding it up as a proper satori - he is extremely self-critical "pride, arrogance, smug." Secondly far from rejecting koans, he was one of the prime systematisers of the koan system. Nevertheless, I'd say that 'no birth ...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
This is perhaps off-topic, but I've been thinking about this for the past few days and don't really want to start a new thread (or a blog): I'm reading this translation of Hakuin's ' Four Ways of Knowing.' In the introduction Hakuin's enlightenment experience is described thusly: He said that he “co...
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
Dogen’s famous passage from the Genjo-koan: "To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by shoho, all dharmas. To be enlightened by all dharmas is to remove the barrier between self and other." [/b] The first thing ...
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
[...] cutting food and boiling rice as enlightenment [...] In case of an arahat (with both personality-view and the conceit "I am" absent), yes. In any other case, no. So, you are saying that you cannot do these actions fully attentive, without being lost in a sense of self. That is sad. Perhaps th...
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: No more ordination for foreigners in southern Thailand?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3210
Re: No more ordination for foreigners in Thailand
Time to build more Western monasteries.
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:43 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3015
Re: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
Do we have "ancient seers" that we need to sneak in through the back door? Is it a matter of applying a film of Dhammic authority onto favored external philosophies/persons/utterances? The whole field blossoms with questions, in my case. The paccekabuddha category probably arose in response to a ne...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Maintaining samvega when things are going well
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1625
Re: Maintaining samvega when things are going well
I wonder how necessary a belief in rebirth is to having a proper sense of samvega.. Dying once is unfortunate. Dying innumerable times in innumerable ways is horrific. The inalterable fact that one is going to suffer in myriad forms, regardless of how comfortable their life is now, is much more cond...
- Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:20 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3015
Re: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
(5) “‘As long as they live the arahants abandon and abstain from liquor, wine, and intoxicants, the basis for heedlessness. Today, for this night and day, I too shall abandon and abstain from liquor, wine, and intoxicants, the basis for heedlessness. I shall imitate the arahants in this respect and...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:22 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Using beliefs for not taking action against wrongdoings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2077
Re: Using beliefs for not taking action against wrongdoings
Religions don't require your respect. If you can provide a good argument for taking action, then do so, confidently. Offend people, if necessary. Reason trumps dogma and shallow superstition.
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:28 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3015
Re: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
I don't agree with your equating of jhana with drinking alcohol. The Buddha says that jhanic states are to be cultivated because they are part of the Path (right concentration). And he says worldly sensual pleasures, such as drinking alcohol, are "base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unprofitable" (SN 56...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: engage with a mystery?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2533
Re: engage with a mystery?
I'll repost my thoughts from the other thread: A mystical practice, in my opinion, is that which evokes a sense of engagement with some mystery, which, when one is striving for enlightenment, is precisely the goal: as novices we've yet to capture the essence of enlightenment (as we don't know it int...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:54 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3015
Re: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
Drinking alcohol wouldn't disquality Socrates from being enlightened per se .. If everyone around him drank moderately, and he was simply engaged in the culture of the time, then his drinking means little. If he was overindulging in drink because he was craving sensual pleasure, or averse to sobrie...
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:13 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3015
Re: Socrates, a Paccekabuddha?
Drinking alcohol wouldn't disquality Socrates from being enlightened per se .. If everyone around him drank moderately, and he was simply engaged in the culture of the time, then his drinking means little. If he was overindulging in drink because he was craving sensual pleasure, or averse to sobriet...
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19314
Re: Zen, Zazen and Dogen
'What makes one a mystic?' is an interesting question which deserves discussion. I'm a little disappointed that the word is being thrown around as a pejorative, as if mysticism is foolish or childish. A mystical practice, in my opinion, is that which evokes a sense of engagement with some mystery , ...