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Re: Atheism and the original teachings
The realms of rebirth in Buddhism can be understood as worldviews, with hell representing a worldview based around hostility. The Buddha was quite explicit about the importance of understanding these… (View Post)
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Re: How important is sitting meditation as a part of Buddhist practice?
Judgement is a problematic word, here. Discernment might still convey what Spiny means, without the moral connotations. (View Post)1 -
Re: How important is sitting meditation as a part of Buddhist practice?
Most browsers come with a search function which you can use to pick out relevant material. It's worth learning to use, very effective. Here is the relevant section on making merit with meditation, an… (View Post)1 -
Re: Hell Realm
There's an interesting section in The Buddhist Religions about how those stories of generating merit by giving to monks became popular around the time Buddhism took off as a wealth-extraction engine. (View Post)
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Re: Should i stop doing sitting meditation? please suggest.
It's not you who are confused, it's a general confusion arising from a tendency among Buddhists to throw away skillful desires, goals and discernment before the practice naturally takes you beyond th… (View Post)
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