Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
pegembara Veteran
About
- Username
- pegembara
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,826
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 2,887
Reactions
-
Re: Past lives
(Quote) My concern is the fact that it may strengthen the sense of selfhood in some individuals. The past is a memory. Memories can be unreliable. If one takes ownership of that memory, we become tha… (View Post)
3 -
Re: Past lives
(Quote) You have not troubled me in any way. In fact it is quite consistent with the scriptures despite what some secular Buddhist may have said. Joseph Goldstein mentioned that one of the teachers r… (View Post)
1 -
Re: Right View
There is the so called mundane right view which sides with merit & results in acquisitions. This is what many lay Buddhist practise namely dana(generosity) and sila(virtue). Then there is the tra… (View Post)
2 -
Re: Controversial compassion
(Quote) That is true but speaking for myself, some don't "deserve" them, especially those who are so deluded that they feel absolutely no guilt or remorse and can justify their actions no m… (View Post)
1 -
Re: Reflections on rebirth
(Quote) Yet in the Sabbasava sutta and many places elsewhere eg. Satta Sutta, Mahatanhasankya sutta, the Buddha clearly pointed that the way out of samsara is by appropriate attention. This appropria… (View Post)
2