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It's better not to take advice from this forum.
If your new to Buddhism, please don't ask this or other internet forums for advice. YOu'll just become more confused and egotistical. And non of your bad habits will go away. It's better to learn from websites by established temples and even better, be paitient and learn from centers with all qualified sangha. Otherwise you will end being more foolish than athiests.
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Are you leaving us NOTaGangsta?
I think advice is like anything like, it's just that. Take what you want and leave the rest. Remember that people have a lot of opinions and just go with it.
"It's better to learn from websites by established temples and even better, be paitient and learn from centers with all qualified sangha."
And what I would like to add is in regard to "Buddhism for Beginners" and the statement "No question is too basic here". There really does need to be at least an understanding of the fundamental ideas before beginning to ask questions.
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"Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent. Take the example of the Buddha himself-- he wasn't a buddhist."
Trungpa Rinpoche
CW -- gentle, gentle.
Actually, I thought N-a-G made a good point. I'd only qualify it by saying: it depends on what kind of advice someone needs. And on who is giving the advice. We've had members asking for medical or mental health advice. This is not the right place for that. And I can't disagree that a sangha, if you can find a good one, is the best place to ask questions. I think that if someone can find a sangha that will help "make your bad habits go away", that would be a rare and precious find. Maybe N-a-G has been fortunate that way.
Why renounce good advice?
Be wise in your choosing
Namaste
Spiny
This is perhapes one of the nicer forums i have come across but there is a mixture of alot of wrong views and new age concepts confused with Buddhist thought.
So visiting a centre is always a good option.
"Authentic" or "inauthentic" -- still, it's up to you. You can knock yourself out with praise and blame, analysis and belief ... the facts don't mind: Your life -- all yours.
says who? says me, of course.
I wonder what you mean about bad habits though. I didn't come here looking to stop bad habits. I came here to learn a little bit about Buddhism through the eyes of others. So far, I have gotten what I came for.
In total agreement with the OP and inclined to take his advice - and not take his advice......
i feel like i've learned a lot more from this forum than from my old sangha. at that point, they had been my only experience with buddhism and they were very encouraging of questions in the beginning, but as time went on, i guess they felt that i had gotten to a point where i wasn't supposed to ask questions anymore. their replies came almost irritatedly at times, as if to say, "why haven't you figured this out yet?" but my questions didn't revolve around logic, rather, i was struggling with belief and faith, which they just seemed to take for granted. when stuck within a group mentality, it can be very comforting to find any sort of people who ask the same questions as you do so you can appropriately realize it's "them" not "you"