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Re: Creating a 'Climate' for Meditation: A Case for the Eight Precepts
What? No one wants to talk about temperance, renunciation, and moderation? I'm shocked! :P (View Post)
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Re: Yuppie Buddhists?
In the Pali suttas, the Buddha and his crew were often invited to stay on the vast grounds and gardens of rich householders. He didn't mind imparting a little dhamma on the wealthy. Yuppie Buddhism, … (View Post)
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Creating a 'Climate' for Meditation: A Case for the Eight Precepts
As lay practitioners, we often struggle with the results of lives inconducive to touching samadhi in meditation. There is no Pali word for what we call meditation. Instead, the Buddha spoke of bhavan… (View Post)
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Re: Enlightened or not - nothing changes and the earth still spins...
One of my early problems with Buddhism that has persisted through the years of my practice is the issue of anthropocentrism. Here we are: a precocious race of hairless apes seemingly alone in our int… (View Post)1 -
Re: Going beyond dualities
There are two dialectics going on in Buddhism that are relevant here. The first is the teaching on upekka -- balance or equanimity -- which is about being unswayed in the midst of the ups and downs o… (View Post)4