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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,612
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
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Re: Literal or figurative?
There are also many, many, Buddhists texts who say that being born in a woman's body is unfortunate karma on account of their menstrual bleeding, that they need to reborn as men to attain awakening. … (View Post)
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Re: Can plants gain enlightenment?
The sentience of plant life is a lively and active debate in Buddhism. In some Buddhisms, plants are denied sentience and are form without consciousness. In some Buddhisms, plant life and simpler org… (View Post)
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Re: The Bodhisattva Attitude
(Quote) That could be true, but also consider that in one of the most popular movements (in the West, at least) that take on bodhisattva precepts, Zen Buddhism and it's various schools, it is very po… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhist quotes
(Quote) -Venerable Vimalakīrti (Also a good one:) (Quote) -Ven Vimalakīrti in responce to Venerable Śāriputra's knock upon his door. (View Post)
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Re: Om Mani Padme Hum - A Novel Interpretation?
(Quote) When Venerable Maitreyanāthasāramati wrote his commentary on the Tathāgatha-womb scriptures, he included this parable about the Buddha's gnosis, which is gnosis of the persistent dharma, the … (View Post)
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