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by pink_trike
Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:55 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Regarding the Lotus Sutra if people are truly interested, it may be worthwhile to read the following (a letter by Hakuin, the great 18th Century Rinzai master): http://www.terebess.hu/zen/hakuin1.html#8 One of the interesting things about it is that it is a capitulation to the religious impulses, s...
by pink_trike
Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:50 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

lol. So this whole drama boils down to this: the word "increasingly" is a dangerous word, and not having time to cite sources immediately is suspicious, at best. Or maybe not...let's deconstruct this thread a bit from a group process perspective. :tongue: The debate I referenced exists, ev...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:46 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?
Replies: 44
Views: 10499

Re: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?

edit note: Responding to Pink Trike, here..... In whichever case, most of what we're discussing is therefore hypothesis, speculation and total guess-work (coupled with, I dare say, the odd fragment of wishful thinking....) :juggling: Suffice to say we should gaze at the moon, and not the finger. Hi...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:08 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

We are all still waiting for some names Pink Trike. Tilt provided you with a few names, could you at least provide us with a few? Hope the turkeys were a success. Tilt is well aware of this debate and could probably pop those names in here in a skinny second. :tongue: I'm packing for a week retreat...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Don't drag me into trike's fantasy world, thankyouverymuch. hm...a while back you stated clearly that there is a debate: Is there, and has there been, and on-going academic debate about the existence of a flesh-and-blood Buddha? Yes. If this comes as a surprise to anyone, well... there are plenty o...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:12 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

BlackBird wrote:
I mean isn't the point of the Theravadin institution to preserve the Buddha-sasana and to create environments that allow others to aspire and attain to the path and fruits of the holy life?
Ideally.
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:55 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

I'd be quite interested in knowing how Mahayana practitioners see and or explain the creation of the Sutras. What is the general out look in Mahayana circles? I imagine that critical thinking is not exclusive to Theravada. This is my opinion - Mahayana sutras are certainly not the word of the histo...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:46 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Cafael Dust wrote:Do you understand it and have insight into it, having read that book?
Who knows? I at least have a better understanding of what I don't understand about that sutra.
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:40 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

He put forth his vast and long tongue which reached upward to the Brahma worlds. From all of his hair pores, he emitted lights of limitless, countless colors, all of which pervasively illuminated the worlds of the ten directions. In the same way, all the Buddhas seated on lion thrones beneath jewel...
by pink_trike
Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:31 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: "Luminous mind" was Question Regarding God and Agnosticism?
Replies: 179
Views: 33706

Re: Question Regarding God and Agnosticism?

But I will say that labels in Buddhism are as insignificant as dust on the wind. That's fundamental to Buddhism, and in that I'm a fundamentalist. Calling oneself a Muslim cannot prevent one from practicing Buddhism, and a Muslim can be enlightened as easily as anyone else. I'm sure the above likel...
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:20 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

alan said:Well Well! thought I'd kick up a little dust and see what happened. And dust there is! Yep - I was just going to post you a congratulatory message saying "Yaaaay alan! this is what you were looking for - and what you got so annoyed about when it didn't happen initially". You sho...
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:08 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?
Replies: 44
Views: 10499

Re: Did Christ come to India to study Buddhism, Vedas?

There is some evidence to corroborate the high possibility that Shakyamuni Buddha did in fact, exist. (The Historical Buddha, H.W Schumann) http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Buddha-Teachings-Founder-Buddhism/dp/0140192034 However, there is little or no evidence that Christ did. at best, he might wel...
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:04 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Two Naked Buddhas
Replies: 42
Views: 10512

Re: Two Naked Buddhas

jcsuperstar wrote:oh but California is California and not america or the west per say, it's of in it's own little world in a way.
Yes. Its very unique. Especially Northern California.
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:57 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

BlackBird wrote: Pink Trike, are you angry?
Not in the slightest. :tongue:

M'gawd...non-issue. :rofl:
by pink_trike
Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:51 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Why did you choose Theravada?
Replies: 228
Views: 46620

Re: Why did you choose Theravada?

Given how busy you are with all those turkeys and what you do seem to have a surprising amount of time for the snideness. Dinner is at 9:30 pm. It's 8:50 pm. I've have somewhere around 5000 books in no particular order. Tilt, I'm so very sorry I can't cancel everything, sort through my books and pa...