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Toraldris · -`-,-{@ Zen Nud... Buddhist @}-,-`- · Veteran
Good night sweetheart, well it's time to go!
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Re: Free will - An illusion?
@SpinyNorman Conventional vs. ultimate. :) Choices are being made. Conventionally we're making them... but in an ultimate sense, it's a completely interdependent process, an empty process. Right Effo… (View Post)
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Re: Meditation Needed to become Buddhist?
To be perfectly clear if it hasn't been brought up, you don't need to meditate to be considered a Buddhist. There are Buddhists who don't meditate at all. There are others who chant. There are those … (View Post)
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Re: Free will - An illusion?
@Tosh I'm with you. The more I've been inclined to Buddhist thinking, the less "free will" makes sense. It assumes some independent agent, when that's the last thing Buddhism is teaching. I… (View Post)
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Re: Meditation Needed to become Buddhist?
You don't need to sit on the floor. If you can sit still on a chair (breathing comfortably) and observe your breathing in-and-out, and not get attached to your thoughts or feelings (watch, don't &quo… (View Post)1 -
Re: Free will - An illusion?
Ah much better! I'm not saying we don't have free will, I'm just saying free will hasn't been defined. What is it that's free? Who has free will? It always comes back to how masters prod students to … (View Post)1