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Hi Snoop.

Actually, Thomas, my notion of "original sin" is based on Buddhism in that Buddhism posits that there are 6 worlds or rather realms 1 can be born into based on the level of one's spiritual awareness, some subhuman, some "godlike." They feel the human level is the 1 most auspicious for achieving...

The traditional Buddhist notion of Maitreya, the future Buddha, an embodiment of universal compassion, is the he/she would not arrive until the dharma was no longer taught and available here on this plane. It's still being taught and judging from some of the comments I've seen you make here...

In a general sense of the notion of "original sin," not necessarily a biblical one, I have no problem with the notion in that I believe for the vast bulk of humanity born into this worldly plane we can only "see through a glass darkly" as to the full and true Reality and that all...

I, too, recently stopped in after a long hiatus.

Hi Thomas. Been awhile. Got a hankerin' for the ol place again. Earl

I would agree that study of traditional Buddhist cosmology is largely irrelevant to Buddhist practice. As to whether Buddhists see it as solely metaphorical depends on the Buddhist. Far more likely for Western, "modernist" Buddhists to see it only as metaphor. Personally, while I don't...

Well, it was only written by a couple of distinguished Buddhist scholars. Earl

http://www.tricycle.com/blog/god-or-human Not quite true. Earl

Sounds like a description of the theory that consciousness does not emerge from brain processes so much as the brain "receives" consciousness from "somewhere else." Earl

Well, children, particularly younger ones, seem to often display quite an array of what we might refer to as parapsychological abilities which may fade with age. Earl

"In the beginning was the Word." To me that speaks to Primordial Consciousness. Earl

Guess, it might depend on your definition of God as in http://www.alanwallace.org/Is%20Buddhism%20Really%20Nontheistic_.pdf Earl

Sin is separation. earl

No. My personal finances have "gone to hell" though the rest of me is still around.:D earl

We stumble semi-blind through our lives bumping into the suffering in others, which reminds us we suffer, too. Are we so different from those "others?" Apparently not- we foregive others as we must forgive ourselves. Metta, Earl

I thought this was about pot. In the early 70's when I was a lad, Acapulco Gold was a name for 1 type of cannabis.:D earl

Well, Iowaguy, as to other explanations, Erwin Lazlo has theorized a form of what the ancients referred to as the "Akashic Record" as an explanatory model for such recollections-a field that contains the "information" from every human who ever lived that some folks can tap into. Of course, I...

Dr. Ian Stevenson was a well respected researcher into the possibilities of reincarnation and came up with some highly suggestive cases: Scientific Proof of Reincarnation: Dr. Ian Stevenson earl

IMO quantum physics cannot explan the mystery of consciousness, though, perhaps, it is attractive to some as an explanation simply because it is a useful analogy to the action and nature of consciousness. Have certainly read a number of Q physicists chastising those in this camp for...