Atlantis

[cappuccino]

[Sam Vara]

I gave it 3 minutes, but there was no mention of a link to Theravadan Buddhism. Does one get outlined later in the video?

[DooDoot]

I watched it all.

[Sam Vara]

I watched it all.

Any Theravada?

[cappuccino]

just Atlantis

[Coëmgenu]

This thread is Connections to Other Paths on so many levels.

[LG2V]

Not Buddhist, but really provocative. This vid has been sitting on my recommended list for a while but I never got around to watching it until now.

[Kim OHara]

This thread is Connections to Other Paths on so many levels.

I think it's a natural Lounge topic but the DWT Lounge has gone the way of Atlantis.

There's always DWE.


Kim

[chownah]

This thread is Connections to Other Paths on so many levels.

Indeed. Plato asserted that the story of atlantis was true and that should be enough to quiet skeptical minds....after all, plato, having lived near the mouth of the cave but not being limited to its confines, had escaped the delusions of the cave although he had perhaps not yet reached full awareness of the real actions whose shadow so enthrall the mass of cave dwelling humanity.
chownah

[DooDoot]

Any Theravada?

Cause & effect (idappaccayatā) and impermanence (anicca).

[Sam Vara]

Any Theravada?

Cause & effect (idappaccayatā) and impermanence (anicca).

I was hoping that big round thingie in the desert might be a massive diagram explaining paticcasamuppada, but alas...

[cappuccino]

For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well-affectioned towards the god, whose seed they were; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, uniting gentleness with wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another. They despised everything but virtue, caring little for their present state of life, and thinking lightly of the possession of gold and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury; nor did wealth deprive them of their self-control; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtue and friendship with one another, whereas by too great regard and respect for them, they are lost and friendship with them. By such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, the qualities which we have described grew and increased among them; but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Zeus, the god of gods, who rules according to law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honourable race was in a woeful plight, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows-* The rest of the Dialogue of Critias has been lost.

Critias By Plato