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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
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- 1,612
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- 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: Literal or figurative?
(Quote) So, I see rebirth and karma as largely the same thing. I believe in karma, so I believe in rebirth, but does that mean I believe everything the Buddha is supposed to have said about karma and… (View Post)3 -
What do we take from the "Buddha's" dharma?
I would like to open this post with a quote from the Gnostic exegete Ptolemy: (Quote) (Ptolemy, Letter to Flora, ~100 A.D.) I would suggest there is a similar threefold division of truth in Buddhavac… (View Post)
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Re: Can plants gain enlightenment?
I don't understand. I'm sorry. Ven Dōgen, the way I am reading above, is questioning the division between the objects and the mind. If the mind attains enlightenment, what has happen to that which th… (View Post)
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Re: Can plants gain enlightenment?
(Quote) Well, the way I read it, he didn't say the rocks, trees, nation, sun, and moon had "their own" minds. He is coming from an East Asian Yogācāra background of mind. This was presented… (View Post)1