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Añjali icon

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Hi,

Someone on this board suggested that it would be useful to have an "añjali icon". Here is one:
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Not that I use them, but it is nice to have an actual Buddhist icon rather than using a Hindu one.
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piotr wrote:Hi,

Someone on this board suggested that it would be useful to have an "añjali icon". Here is one:
Great! I agree, it's great to have a Buddhist one.
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:anjali:

I added it.

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Hi,

Great! I'm glad you like it. :smile:
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Thanks you!
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piotr wrote:Hi,

Great! I'm glad you like it. :smile:
I have refrained from using the other one so thanks.

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Can we pass it around? Share it with Zen Forum International folks?
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

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Sure, why not? :smile:
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Call me stupid (I'm sorry for my ignorance) but what does Anjali mean? Is it an exclusively Buddhist term? How is it different from Namaste?
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Hi Mawkish,

Take a look here: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philol ... 1:293.pali" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Namaste has just different spiritual background.
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Namaste = I bow to that (divinity) inherent in you.

That is why it is not Buddhist.


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Love it! :anjali:
but is their a Buddhist equivalent to Namaste?

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I haven't minded using the "namaste" one too much, because I figure it's a nice sentiment even if it might be flavored with mundane wrong view. I've also heard it translated as "I recognize the Buddha in you," and loosely that could mean, I recognize our potential to be enlightened. If we drop the whole me/you duality, then "namaste" becomes a little more "Buddhist." And if we also drop the whole divine/ordinary duality, it becomes even a little more "Buddhist." But the most important part of the emoticon in my mind was the hand-to-hand bow.

Regardless, this new icon is better.
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On second thought the Buddha did not deny divinity and he also recognized the value to be found in acting out of divine intention.

So there is no reason to say that using "namaste" somehow contradicts Buddhist principles except the part about the divinity being "inherent" which Im not sure it means. I got that from wicki.

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