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Re: A very useful resource

I once considered becoming a Buddhist monk. Then I read Stephen Batchelor’s Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist in which he talks about his decade as a Buddhist monk, and it seemed to me it wasn’t for me.

But the more resources the merrier!

Jeroen

Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!

@Jundo said:

100% of the proceeds will go to Buddhist and other charities, nothing to me. I would never sell Dharma.

I don't care about the money from the book. You're still trying to sell it. You're selling Dharma. You just aren't keeping the money. My guru earns his living from his books. What he doesn't keep are the annual offerings made by his centers and the national organization. He sends the checks back. I don't care if you keep the money or not, Jundo. I care about seeing things for what they are, and you sir, are, for whatever reason, trying to sell a book.

Good luck :-)

IdleChater

Re: A Buddhist teacher admits ... BUDDHISM HAS FAILED!

@IdleChater said:
Strange - I don't really think we have failed in our mission. I don't even know what sort of mission I/we are supposed to be on. I don't recall being asked to accept one.

And it sounds like Jundo is just trying to sell his book.

Nice one, Jundo.

100% of the proceeds will go to Buddhist and other charities, nothing to me. I would never sell Dharma.

The mission is in the Vow is to save all sentient beings, though numberless, from Dukkha as well as, for us engaged folks in this modern world, war and violence, hunger and poverty, and the like.

Gassho, Jundo

Jundo

Re: How to Change Your Mind

Only if our Government suddenly becomes rational.

zorro

Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual

Having an open heart is not simply blind acceptance of what is written. The correct approach is synthesis between what you feel to be true, and the truth of what is written.

Jeroen

Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual

@Jeroen said:
keeping your opinion intact.

That's the problem. Your opinion.

My guru told me that true devotion was an open heart. In Buddhist parlance, this is the same as open mind. Clinging to an opinion, keeping it intact, as you say, is not having an open heart. This will present difficulties, making attainment of the path all the more difficult.

IdleChater