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Alex Veteran
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- Username
- Alex
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- UK
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- Zen, Theravada
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Re: What are your experiences with Samatha (Theravada) and Zen (Soto) ?
@herbie yes, that’s precisely how my Sangha operates, same structure. In fact I attend 2 x Soto Zen meetings, some crossover of folks between the two. I find some of the elaboration a little overwhel… (View Post)
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Re: Trust Me I'm Buddha AKA "Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels"
“I don’t really have an issue with taking refuge and whether that qualifies one as a Buddhist, I’m completely ok whether someone does or doesn’t. What makes me uncomfortable is the notion that one mu… (View Post)
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Re: Trust Me I'm Buddha AKA "Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels"
@Kundo I am new, so I hope you’ll indulge my young and impudent beginnings. I do hear what you say........but......doesn’t point 1 above, pretty much allow for rather fundamental challenge of point 2… (View Post)
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Re: Trust Me I'm Buddha AKA "Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels"
@Kerome I don’t really have an issue with taking refuge and whether that qualifies one as a Buddhist, I’m completely ok whether someone does or doesn’t. What makes me uncomfortable is the notion that… (View Post)1 -
Re: Zen.......self-taught or via a Teacher ?
@seeker242 Thank you ? I do wonder about people who live remotely with no access to a Master......and I also wonder whether it really all just feeds in to satisfying the egos of members of a hierarch… (View Post)1