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Re: Dalai Lama: 'It's better for you to keep your traditions'.
The DL said, that he used to think Buddhism was the best path to follow, so he felt his job was to proselytize. But later he realized, that the world's religions each evolved out of a specific cultur… (View Post)
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Re: Did the Buddha address whether or not his teachings were new?
Although some of what he taught (karma, rebirth, IF indeed that's what he taught; regarding his concept of rebirth, it's debatable) were familiar concepts, in other respects, he was contradicting som… (View Post)
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Re: The link between sex and peacefulness
Would love to read that material on matriarchal societies. I wonder if Tibet had such a brutal form of feudalism before Buddhism came, back when their traditions were more matriarchal. Though I think… (View Post)1 -
Re: The link between sex and peacefulness
(Quote) From the article: Prescott found that societies characterised by “permissive premarital sexual behaviors” had a low level of adult physical violence, We can find examples of groups with a hig… (View Post)
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Re: I can't open one of the threads
(Quote) Thank you. It's kind of frustrating (dukha!), because it's a good topic, that thread, but we can't access it. Oh well. Just one of those techie things. We can wait it out. An opportunity to p… (View Post)
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