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Toraldris · -`-,-{@ Zen Nud... Buddhist @}-,-`- · Veteran
Good night sweetheart, well it's time to go!
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Re: Soka Gakkai? I'm searching for guideness.
All I know is that it's a Nichiren sect, which focuses on chanting and the Lotus Sutra over a more meditation-based approach. I've always valued calming and insight meditation... chanting wouldn't &q… (View Post)
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Re: How does a person qualify to be identified as a Buddhist?
I just frown a bit when people say things as if they're certain, like a car mechanic saying "you'll never fix that unless you've gone to mechanic school". Things are rarely so black and whi… (View Post)
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Re: How does a person qualify to be identified as a Buddhist?
(Quote) That's what I'd say happened to Eckhart Tolle. He had a major existential crisis that his mind couldn't deal with, except by seeing the truth. (View Post)1 -
Re: Is "Enlightenment" the correct term for obtaining Nirvana (in Theravada tradition)
Enlightenment, Awakening, Nibbana, all good. All referring to the cessation of suffering. It's really not an attainment, or that's a bad way of thinking about it, but rather a change in perspective a… (View Post)
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Re: Who or what becomes enlightened ?
"Mind". With delusion and craving there is suffering. Without... not. (View Post)1