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We talked at length about reincarnation and the soul. These therevada people definetly believe in past lives, future lives and reincarnation and the soul, but he told me the soul dies with the body, …
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Who says, that Buddha was enlightened? How can we know? Do we, accepting this "truth", not just blindly follow anything which was repeated over centuries? Do we not just blindly follow teac…
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I would say there's (technically) many paths to liberation; however, liberation, being the supreme goal of any path (let's ignore bodhisattva dialectics), by its very nature implies that unnecessary …
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Didn't read the comments, but....
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Didn't read the comments, but....
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bodhisattva tries to help beings. The best way to do this is to become enlightened. In the mahayana tradition the goal of buddhism is liberation from both nirvana and samsara.
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I've had an interesting experience over the last couple of days at the university that I attend. Occasionally you will see different spiritual or religious people coming to the school and just setti…
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My logic certainly was wrecked says Thanissaro:
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I don't have much direction in life, in terms of work or having long-term goals, so I figured I could do a degree in something. I like philosophy, learning & arguing, so I thought I could do unde…
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This is what happens when mahayana and vajrayana get involved. Energy, eternal buddha nature flowing around, and lions and trees. Where were the actual teachings of craving, aversion, ignorance, the …
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