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- Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:25 pm
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Has anyone notice no aid from Islamic country for non Muslims ?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 993
Re: Has anyone notice no aid from Islamic country for non Muslims ?
Today, Muslim countries are becoming more Muslim because of what the West has done, militarily, to Muslim nations. Since it is Western ideology causing many of these problems, why do you think a Western approach will solve them? Often Western charity has strings attached. If Western countries & peo...
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 8:30 pm
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: keep liberalism out of buddhism
- Replies: 126
- Views: 2719
Re: keep liberalism out of buddhism
In an age and culture in which women and girls were in effect the property of the men in their lives, the Buddha not only accepted women as disciples capable of enlightenment, but even ordained them. If the masculine pronoun is mostly used in the Pali suttas, it's most probably for the sake of conve...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2101
Re: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
I don't see why someone can't participate in both Forums at once. Sectarianism gives me spiritual indigestion. I'm more interested in improving myself, than in clinging to the notion that "Only this Path is correct, all others are false (or misleading, incomplete, distorted etc). I'm leaning more n...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2101
Re: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
There are much more profound critiques out there regarding Lamaism but thank you. There sure are. As I mentioned in an earlier post, all of them were written in the 19th century when there was virtually no genuine knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism. The very word "Lamaism" is rooted in that period of al...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 9:16 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: i am so gullible, wow
- Replies: 7
- Views: 356
Re: i am so gullible, wow
Don't pay the scammers another cent, get your bank account details etc changed, and get legal advice asap.


- Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Ajahn Brahm and the strange bottles of Pepsi!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 533
Re: Ajahn Brahm and the strange bottles of Pepsi!
Firstly, what is the source for this story? How do we know this actually occurred? Even in it did, I think it just demonstrates the power of the mind, or positive thinking. Doesn't need to be anything supernatural.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:24 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Inspiring Words
- Replies: 137
- Views: 9270
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 5:51 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Regarding a Tibetan chant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 275
Re: Regarding a Tibetan chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j3akwctH4A is a pretty version and comes with words :smile: but Lama Yeshe seems to be putting an extra word at the start. Asking on the :spy: other :spy: Wheel may be more productive. :coffee: Kim Haha...I will check out your link first, before going undercover to ...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:37 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Regarding a Tibetan chant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 275
Regarding a Tibetan chant
Does anyone here know what these words mean, and is there a guide as to how one should correctly pronounce them?
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:34 pm
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Why being a loner may be good for your health
- Replies: 18
- Views: 499
Re: Why being a loner may be good for your health
Thank you everyone, but this is my particular kamma-vipaka to deal with. I'm sure others, have their own versions of suffering peculiar to themselves, also. I appreciate the good wishes, but really, it helped bring me to the Dhamma. This dukkha is one of the reasons I began searching for answers, ba...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:16 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Inspiring Words
- Replies: 137
- Views: 9270
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2101
Re: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
Tibetan tradition is not really Buddhism. Your opinion? Edit: My first post had a wrong link. Sorry about that! https://dharma-documentaries.net/lama-osel-hita Not only has that child in the video grown up, he has also become a top-notch Buddhist teacher. Indeed he has. In the talk below, he begins...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:16 pm
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Why being a loner may be good for your health
- Replies: 18
- Views: 499
Re: Why being a loner may be good for your health
Isolation causes depression. This has been clinically proven. That is my experience. Being unusual-looking, I cop a fair amount of ridicule from strangers, especially teenagers in groups (and some adults also, which surprises me). I'd say I get laughed at or put down by total strangers, about once ...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:48 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2101
Re: Child Lama. I think it is ridiculous.
Interviewer: "Are you happy being a monk?"
Lama Osel: (pause...) "Better not...answer this question, please. I don't lie."
Interviewer: "Do you think you'll always be a monk?"
Lama Osel: "I hope so."
Whether or not he really is the incarnation of Lama Yeshe, he's honest and likeable.

Lama Osel: (pause...) "Better not...answer this question, please. I don't lie."
Interviewer: "Do you think you'll always be a monk?"
Lama Osel: "I hope so."
Whether or not he really is the incarnation of Lama Yeshe, he's honest and likeable.

- Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:31 pm
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: A Teen Who Regularly Uses Guns
- Replies: 3
- Views: 124
Re: A Teen Who Regularly Uses Guns
I came across this opinion piece in the NY Times, titled "Why I Didn't Join My School's Walkout." I own firearms not only because I think they are cool, but also because they are considered a tool in my family. I have been brought up around guns all my life. Yes, I have used AR-15 semiautomatic rif...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:51 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: RIP Stephen Hawking
- Replies: 30
- Views: 974
Re: RIP Stephen Hawking
His body could not move, but his mind could encompass so much. I really enjoyed his book, 'A Brief History of Time', which opened my mind to new possibilities. Vale, Stephen Hawking. May he journey on well.


- Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:47 am
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Critiquing the life of Stephen Hawking
- Replies: 121
- Views: 2125
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:20 am
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Americans will never give up their guns.
- Replies: 196
- Views: 6311
Re: Americans will never give up their guns.
Journalists? They are political activists and blocked by a conservative govt. And Assange? Why doesn't he leave the Embassy? Indeed, the Embassy he currently resides in, is luxurious as compared with being locked up in a U.S. jail for years on end. No wonder he dare not venture out onto the street.
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:43 am
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Criticism of Islam
- Replies: 224
- Views: 8823
Re: Criticism of Islam
That my government so obediently supports the United States in their foreign wars, who sell weapons to the Saudis, who have created the horrors being experienced by many thousands of Yemeni men, woman and children - the children are suffering the most - appalls and disgusts me. So much for 'Western ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:05 am
- Forum: News, Current Events & Politics
- Topic: Criticism of Islam
- Replies: 224
- Views: 8823
Re: Criticism of Islam
History shows the whole world as butchers par exceclence, and the europeans as the first civilized area of the world who managed to stop slavery, stop wars, invent democracy and improve living conditions for the whole world through the french revolution and industrial revolution. Without the europe...