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"Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
This may have already been mentioned in another thread but on Facebook, at least here in America, I have seen a big rise in popularity of social media pages with names like Buddha's Teachings or even just The Buddha.
Unsurprisingly they are full of quotes that are not from recognized teachings but are mostly just self-help nuggets. Many of them are benign and may even be good advice, but I realized that this whole large language model, or whatever AI is supposed to do on the research side, is not going to be able to differentiate between this stuff down the road.
Obviously Buddhism looks very different for us than it did for people 2,000+ years ago, but I think even just a few centuries from now, the concept of Buddhism may not look like anything we would recognize today.
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
"Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Thus have I heard:
Through realisation, as they have known throughout the millennia.
The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path...
the nature of suffering and the way to its cessation.
We all stray from the path at times, and most of us come to see that we have.
Some realise it sooner than others, yet the light of awareness always finds its way through.
Shoshin1
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Books last quite a long time, in paper form. There are people who have bought all the volumes of the translated Pali Canon. In digital form, who knows how long the files will be copied and re-copied.
But perhaps online archives like Access To Insight will stay the course and provide the authentic words of the Buddha to LLMs.
Jeroen
Re: "Buddha's Teachings" - in 1,000 years, how will they know?
Buddhism has changed and will continue changing until the world has forgotten the Buddhadharma. Then, a new Buddha will arise, and turn the Wheel of Dharma
Re: Theravada & Mahayana Buddhism: Differences & Similarities
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Re: Similarities between Buddhism and the Tao Te Ching
An elder Zen master is sometimes given the title of Roshi which literally means Laozi or Lao Tzu.
Re: Comparing the teachings of Jesus and Buddha? Jesus is still the way?
I'm not sure if your intention was anything beyond charing a good article, but if you were trying to convince Buddhists that Christ is better, then....*yawn* .... I won't be pulled into another one of these debates. It's getting tedious.
Buddha compared the "way" to a raft for getting across an ocean - to get to the other side. Once you have reached the shore, you would not carry the raft on your back. Do not become too attached to your religion.
But thanks! :bigclap:
Re: do Buddhists believe in ghosts or spirits?
I think whatever happens to consciousness when you die is probably so alien to human existence that there's probably no real way to fully explain it in any human language and with any human concepts.The dalai lama believes they are psychological. My understanding of his view is that everyone has an aspect of themselves which is hungry ghost which manifests to lesser and greater degrees. I have times when I think I am like a hungry ghost, such as when I am having a sense craving. Trying to get the right thing, try a glass of coke, and then a walk, and then a snack yet not really enjoying anything. That sounds like a hungry ghost.The common folk in Tibet interpret the ghost realms literally. I've seen this concept presented both ways. But there are other types of spirits in Tibetan belief, too--nature spirits, plus those Himalayan demons that were tamed and became dharma protectors.
Taiwanese buddhists belief in ghosts and spirits.
