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Re: Being a Buddhist doesn't mean renouncing social engagement.
The Buddha taught both monastics and laity, but much of what has been passed down was preserved by monks, so what we have was primarily of interest to and directed at them. However, this fact doesn’t… (View Post)
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Re: "The Deathless" (Pali: Amata) in Buddhism
Given its indescribability and our linguistic limitations, perhaps it can feebly be described as freedom from all psychological and physical necessity that is neither considered a state, ground, or n… (View Post)
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Re: Is Pure Land Buddhism entirely faith-based?
I became very interested in the Tibetan Buddhist interpretation of Pure Land after reading Kalu Rinpoche's book "Luminous Mind", and then began to investigate other Buddhist sources about i… (View Post)
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Re: Arhats Still Conscious After Parinirvana?
I think one of the factors that make nibbana and parinibbana difficult to grasp is the embellishments of core doctrines attributed to later forms of Buddhism, and it is these later forms that we are … (View Post)
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Re: Arhats Still Conscious After Parinirvana?
Between the two extremes of annihilationism and eternalism the Buddha was far more critical of the former, and it is not difficult to see why. In annihilationism the self correlates directly with the… (View Post)1