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The Buddhist canon is amazingly consistent if one takes the time to actually study the canon. Christianity, with its OT and NT is totally inconsistent. Buddhist scholars can, pretty much, tell us wha… (View Post)
Pollyanna83: Boredom is not an easy subject to tackle. Erich Fromm in his book, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, has a lot of interesting things to say about boredom. We have to be careful about… (View Post)
Surely if God exists, he doesn't help his creatures. Speaking with candor, with such power why does God seldom uses it for good? Justice is lacking in this world. And why are all God's creatures cond… (View Post)
From the OP, sitting in a formal posture on a cushion is not actually meditation—and most Asian Buddhists don't sit on a cushion like Westerners do who believe such a practice is meditation. Real med… (View Post)
According to Buddha in the Relays of Chairots Sutta (M. i. 149–50), like King Pasenadi of Kosala's seven relays of chariots, purity of moral habit is of purpose as far as purity of mind, purity of mi… (View Post)