Buddhislm is Absurd
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Khalil Bodhi
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Re: Buddhislm is Absurd
Walaikum salaam! Thank you for your perspective on the issue and welcome to the forum.
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
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-Dhp. 183
The Stoic Buddhist: https://www.quora.com/q/dwxmcndlgmobmeu ... pOR2p0uAdH
My Practice Blog:
http://khalilbodhi.wordpress.com
Re: Buddhislm is Absurd
We are all complex paradoxes so it shouldn't be hard to work out a simple paradox.
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Unfettered at last, a traveling monk,
I pass the old Zen barrier.
Mine is a traceless stream-and-cloud life,
Of these mountains, which shall be my home?
Manan (1591-1654)
Unfettered at last, a traveling monk,
I pass the old Zen barrier.
Mine is a traceless stream-and-cloud life,
Of these mountains, which shall be my home?
Manan (1591-1654)
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PadmaPhala
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Re: Buddhislm is Absurd
someone that doesn't see the 4 Noble Truths as self-evident...
maybe 4 is too difficult to comprehend, try with TriLaksana (Tri = 3).
maybe 4 is too difficult to comprehend, try with TriLaksana (Tri = 3).
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That's the problem with philosophers.
“For those that are blind, the truth always remains crooked”
“For those that are blind, the truth always remains crooked”
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. - B. Disraeli
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Re: Buddhislm is Absurd
To the OP, the writer sees this as a contradiction only because he does not understand it. It's not a contradiction at all.
The Buddha mentions in the Suttas somewhere that it is by craving that craving comes to cease. In essence one has to employ craving to finally come to the realization that rids one of craving. I believe this is one of the reasons that the Buddha refers to the teachings as a raft, that even the teachings must be abandoned when one reaches the other shore, thus how much more so should other things be abandoned.
People have been trying to slander the Dhamma since the Buddha first got some renown, but no person in my mind has ever levelled a true and valid criticism against it, criticisms of the true Dhamma only arise from misunderstanding or from malice. But the Dhamma will always stand up to a few knocks because as the Buddha states: It is free of patchwork.
metta
Jack
The Buddha mentions in the Suttas somewhere that it is by craving that craving comes to cease. In essence one has to employ craving to finally come to the realization that rids one of craving. I believe this is one of the reasons that the Buddha refers to the teachings as a raft, that even the teachings must be abandoned when one reaches the other shore, thus how much more so should other things be abandoned.
People have been trying to slander the Dhamma since the Buddha first got some renown, but no person in my mind has ever levelled a true and valid criticism against it, criticisms of the true Dhamma only arise from misunderstanding or from malice. But the Dhamma will always stand up to a few knocks because as the Buddha states: It is free of patchwork.
metta
Jack
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
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'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta
Path Press - Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page - Ajahn Nyanamoli's Dhamma talks
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suriyopama
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Re: Buddhislm is Absurd
Thanissaro has several talks on this issue. This is just one of them:
Pushing the Limits
Desire & Imagination in the Buddhist Path
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... imits.html
All phenomena is rooted on desire. The only thing not rooted in desire is nibbana. But as Thanissaro says in another talk (i've heard it from a mp3), nibbana cannot be cloned. You cannot emulate it by adopting its characteristics. Therefore, you have to gradually follow a path that will lead you there; a path rooted on skillful desires. Even some "healthy" aversions are necessary to a certain degree in some stages the path, like the aversion to unskilful actions, unskillful states of mind, bad companions, etc.
Pushing the Limits
Desire & Imagination in the Buddhist Path
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... imits.html
All phenomena is rooted on desire. The only thing not rooted in desire is nibbana. But as Thanissaro says in another talk (i've heard it from a mp3), nibbana cannot be cloned. You cannot emulate it by adopting its characteristics. Therefore, you have to gradually follow a path that will lead you there; a path rooted on skillful desires. Even some "healthy" aversions are necessary to a certain degree in some stages the path, like the aversion to unskilful actions, unskillful states of mind, bad companions, etc.