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- Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:51 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5591
Re: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
Taking the unilateral decision to lock a thread without consulting or advising the OP that it is being considered is authoritarian and bad mannered. I wish to voice my strongest objection. this is curtailing free speech. you are moderators, not censors. the fact that this has caused such heated deb...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:49 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5591
Re: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
The ( at the moment ) ALL MALE MOD team are behaving like the government of a totalitarian state. I am appalled. The other threads in question are dealing with some personal experience issues regarding men, not Dhamma Wheel or its moderators. You are the only one I see trying to turn this into some...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5591
Re: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
I said the ( at the moment ) all male mod team. I didnt say all of that team.tiltbillings wrote:I am doing that? Goodness.Sanghamitta wrote:The ( at the moment ) ALL MALE MOD team are behaving like the government of a totalitarian state.
I am appalled.

- Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:46 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5591
Re: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
The ( at the moment ) ALL MALE MOD team are behaving like the government of a totalitarian state.
I am appalled.
I am appalled.
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5591
Re: OpenDhamma Hot Topic Posts being Reviewed
Perhaps David you could demonstrate your commitment to egalitarianism by allowing women to share their hurt at the way that they are frequently treated without that expression being subject to male censorship as on the Hot Topic thread. I consider the suppression of the Dealing with Anxiety thread i...
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:03 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12776
Re: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
rowboat wrote:It's pretty disappointing but not very surprising to see that there is so little understanding of gender issues among the men at this website. The discourse here is at the level one would expect to find within military culture.

- Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:58 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Is the food revolution just a great big fat lie?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1608
Re: Is the food revolution just a great big fat lie?
Well it should be. Marie Antoinette is not a Buddhist role model.
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:07 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12776
Re: Not 'man bashing' but legitimate protest.
Yana if you do not exist...who wrote your original post ?
Delusion results in many behaviours...including an unfair discrimination involving gender.
But I am sure the males will be delighted that you have just given them a free pass.
Delusion results in many behaviours...including an unfair discrimination involving gender.
But I am sure the males will be delighted that you have just given them a free pass.
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:06 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Hostility to Ananda
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5067
Re: Hostility to Ananda
These stories appear to me to be characteristic of the way that lives become mythologised. This does not render them pointless. The process happens for a reason..usually to stand as examples , role models and cautions to others. But they generally need unpacking. A literal reading seems to be to sma...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:58 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
Absolutely.
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:51 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
The right foundation is I think the company of those who read their own hearts.
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
Well that assumes that I have not read the suttas Retro.. :smile: In reality I attended I.B. Horner's classes on the suttas at the London Buddhist Society for several years. I also attended the classes given by the great Pali scholar Dr Ven H Saddhatissa at the London Buddhist Vihara for a year. On ...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
Greetings Sanghamitta, Believing is pointless when that which is believed is untrue. Even more when it is true. That is not an attempt to sound " Zenny"...its just a fact. Can what you say here be resolved with MN 60, or do you believe MN 60 is in error? Metta, Retro. :) I think that when Luang Por...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:06 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
Believing is pointless when that which is believed is untrue. Even more when it is true.
That is not an attempt to sound " Zenny"...its just a fact.
Buddhadhamma and belief systems are incompatible.
That is not an attempt to sound " Zenny"...its just a fact.
Buddhadhamma and belief systems are incompatible.
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
I think whatever label we apply to ourselves, secular, traditional, it is vital to support each others efforts.
Not to make anyone feel that they are excluded if they feel unable to sign a particular pledge of allegiance.

Not to make anyone feel that they are excluded if they feel unable to sign a particular pledge of allegiance.

- Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
Interesting how they rarely (in my experience) mention it in Dhamma talks, other than in passing. From this I suspect one or two things; it's not central to the teaching like the four noble truths and noble eightfold path etc but a background to them, many of monks are actually agnostic on the topi...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
If they left the path behind...then it all came out in the wash. 

- Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
If they were a " bumbling idiot "Then it wouldnt be " proper instruction "....would it ?
Likewise someone who does not live the Dhamma cannot, by definition, give proper instruction.
Relating to previous life experiences is neither here nor there imo.
Likewise someone who does not live the Dhamma cannot, by definition, give proper instruction.
Relating to previous life experiences is neither here nor there imo.
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
If the instruction is proper, liking or disliking this or that approach or teacher is as frivolous as liking or disliking a given fireman when the house is on fire....it really doesnt matter.
Its our response and application that matters, nothing else.
Its our response and application that matters, nothing else.
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Secular Buddhist
- Replies: 289
- Views: 23466
Re: The Secular Buddhist
On " it all comes out in the wash " I have been on a number of Vipassana and Metta Bhavana retreats involving participants from the spectrum of western Buddhist orientations. From devotees of the Suttas to those exclusively preoccupied with practice. As far as I could see any major difference in wh...