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Re: Buddhist Technological Shabbat
You may consider taking the eight precepts on occasion? They can be taken weekly (new moon, full moon and half moon) or fortnightly on the new moon and full moon.
1, No killing
2. No stealing
3. No sexual activity
4. No lying
5. No drugs or alcohol
6. No eating at inappropriate times (after noon)
7. No application of perfumes or watching of entertainment I.e, tv, non dhamma books, computer or phone
8. No sitting or sleeping in luxurious places.
Bunks
Re: first letter to Dharma Students -
@Silouan said:
It’s mentioned that there is no goal in Buddhism. I’ve heard this quite a lot, and wonder if it’s related to a modern interpretation of Buddhism.If it is true, then what is the reason for the 4th Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path, if not the purpose of authenticating and fulling the 3rd Noble Truth?
If there is no purpose, then wouldn’t the 4th Noble Truth actually be untrue making the 3rd Noble Truth reciprocally untrue?
Of course, the key is even one step ahead.
The origin of the Second Noble Truth is, in the Mahayana is Duality.
Everything that is said here must be studied and practiced in depth.
Re: My library
I found a brochure of the Vajrayana Foundation that was sent to me in 2001. It was published under the name of Lotus Light.
let's start sending letters and postcards to each other again!
Re: Buddhist quotes
War exists only because people are willing to kill others for a soldier’s wages, on the orders of some politician. If people were to say no to that, on principle, the world would look quite different.
Jeroen
Re: Rules to becoming a Bodhisattva?
@FleaMarket said:
How many weeds in the garden are too many?
How many ants in the kitchen are too many?
How many bacteria on the skin are too many?
How many angels/bodhisattvas can dance on the end of a vaccination needle?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin?
… meanwhile in another dimension …
Part of us is ignorant/sleeping and we also are partly boddhisattvas. How to wake up and dance?
- Empowerment from the four jewels. (Boddhisatvas get a bonus invisible ring - at least.)
- Bow and call on the 'gone before'. Personally I call on the yet to come, other dimensions and religions. I need all the helpers available.
- Look out. Look in. Shine.
lobster
Re: first letter to Dharma Students -
It’s mentioned that there is no goal in Buddhism. I’ve heard this quite a lot, and wonder if it’s related to a modern interpretation of Buddhism.
If it is true, then what is the reason for the 4th Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path, if not the purpose of authenticating and fulling the 3rd Noble Truth?
If there is no purpose, then wouldn’t the 4th Noble Truth actually be untrue making the 3rd Noble Truth reciprocally untrue?
Silouan
Re: My library
Because i am pre-internet
Luckily I am internetanised.
http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com
https://wbu.world/buddhist-libraries-centre/
lobster
Re: first letter to Dharma Students -
@how Right, but you are providing a description of awakened mind. Is it not correct to say that preceding this awakening and the cessation of suffering there must first come belief in the possibility and purposeful struggle?
Yes, you can correctly say that as long as you can see that either a goal or a purpose if one attaches to it, will eventually be the cause of more suffering.
I described a sleeping mind/heart and an awakened mind/heart and the transition from one to the other. The first is filled with innumerable goals, the latter with none.
The practice is about learning how not to be attached to anything (that includes goals). Some Buddhist schools lead one through a succession of ever subtler goals while other schools just have you approach any goal as a potential attachment. Either way, they all end up at the same summit.
how
Re: Rules to becoming a Bodhisattva?
I set my alarm for 2:22 today and cheered! But I guess that time was only at that moment in my time zone
Jeffrey