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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
Reactions
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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
(Another good one, source apocryphal) The Novice: "I have seen and heard, studied and known, within these five aggregates of binding there is no one to be found and nothing to own." The Mas… (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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Re: How do you not hate a Hitler or people who rape young children
If a man came to you on fire and you had a water bucket, however small, perhaps it was only a cup of water, even if your water cup could never dose the extent of the flames covering his body, would y… (View Post)1