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Re: Shamanism and Buddhism?
According to Beautiful Painted Arrow, a shaman of the Ute and Pueblo Indians, in their tradition human beings have two states in which they can be conscious. In translation these are 'Believing We Ex… (View Post)
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Re: Why meditate?
Overcoming craving without any meditative practice or the realisation of any 'new age' self-knowledge? I don't believe it can be done or even what the point of trying would be, but good luck. Overcom… (View Post)
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Re: Attaining enlightenment for the sake of all beings
(Quote) This is my conjecture. It's not an exclusively Buddhist idea that our thoughts and mental states have an impact on some sort of global consciousness. There's even a vaguely scientific theory.… (View Post)1 -
Re: How To Practice The Right View
(Quote) Oh boy. I think maybe you are getting ahead of yourself. You crave jhana yet are already planning to teach other people about it; you have rejected Buddhism for your own form of theism; you r… (View Post)
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Re: How are we chairs?
Heisenberg concluded that in physics we must learn to live with the simultaneous truth of two statements 'Here is a table' and 'Here is-not a table'. The existence of chairs would presumuably be just… (View Post)1