Recent content by Dharmaatmaa

No one knows..? Eh, "philosophers"...

Hi people! Soon it'll be Christmas and I translate some Christmas songs for a Russian site. And I decided to ask you, the English-speakers, to explain me an interesting moment from a song. The question is: Who is that sergeant-major and what is he doing in this song? :) Maybe it's a part from a...

>So what is Medusa with all those serpents growing out as hair? What's that about? It's a really difficult question, woodsyroots! ;) But the story of her life's a real chef-d'oeuvre :)

>Nothing of the original teller, yet something passes on... karma. It's not a contradiction. I've already told that misunderstanding of terms is taking place in this issue. Anyway, if we imagine that there's no a being to have karma, we can't deny the fact that all the world karma exists...

>Enemies can cloak their identities and hide their attacks amid the cascade of data >...because attacks can come from anywhere and take only seconds. Who are the enemies, bhaktajan? And what they're going to attack? I do not see any enemies... ;)

About this Snoopy's text there's an unusual theme by Thomas. Unfortunately, I cannot post there, and the reason for that I know not... So, I'm gonna answer and respond in here. ============================== >>Central to the Buddha’s teaching is the profound and subtle insight that permanence...

>Your ideas strike me as being very zen-like. Hmm.. I'd say "theravada-like" :)

An interesting extract did you propose, Snoopy. I read it avec plaisir. I've never heard of the "redeath". But I heard of the "second death". This concept says that after the body done, the psychical body is to die, then only Atma remains finally. But could you explain en detail what is meant...

>>re-birth is the second birth of the same personality bhaktajan>There is a term also used in Hinduism ['dvija' second birth] where similarly, yet with older provinance, refers to a young man taking 'brahman-initiation' I think, no. This "re-birth" doesn't belong to the "re-birth" en question...

Z>Well we don't know if the astral body craves for things What "craves" then, if it isn't the Astral body? Our desires must be collected somewhere, and this "somewhere" isn't a body or a physical brain, it's obvious. Z>it [soul] is necessarily a divine being Yes, in its origins. But...

>>not "reincarnation" ---but "rebirth" >Yes. Re-birth. Could you explain the difference? I thought re-birth is the second birth of the same personality. Reincarnation is re-birth of the same Atman.

Gatekeeper>don't know that I'm either good or bad. Good and evil are a great deal like light and dark We can't say so. Good differs from bad, so to say. We can't say "I don't know". Even if we discuss only the ethical side of the question, we must be certain about that. You say - like light...

>Perhaps they have 'first-hand' information worth considering? Maybe their visions are subjective? How you think, their visions agree to one another? As I think they must have seen different things according to their own karma.

chakraman>meh- indifference Listening to the radio, I heard that this word "meh" was already put into official English dictionaries :)

>What do they call it? Some Tibetan name I suppose :) . I think it may be called the term "Atma", something eternal, unlike the temporary "personality" being illusive and non-existing in reality. The "personality" is only a fluctuation, disturbance in the eternal flow of the consciousness...