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Do you agree with Gabriel's prayer for annihilation?

Hence, there are multiple suttas where Nibbana (nirvana) is defined by Buddha. Buddha even admitted that there would come a time where people would no longer remember the Buddhadharma. (Some sects guestimate that this will be in about another 2,500 years.) It's really quite interesting...

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The suttas are sayings of the Buddha that were preserved through oral history (the practice of which continues down to this day) before they were written down 400 years later. This collective type of reaction is characteristic of bacteria colonies. It is understandable for fleshy creatures...

Here is one: 94:8.16 (1036.18) Siddhartha hardly believed in the immortality of the human personality; his philosophy only provided for a sort of functional continuity. He never clearly defined what he meant to include in the doctrine of Nirvana. The fact that it could theoretically be...

I don't see what the big deal is with Buddha in the garden. The first thing with Buddhist practice is to withdraw from secular society. Buddha often meditated outdoors.

There are quite a few ace women out there. I used to consider myself a sapiosexual until I realized that it is an exercise in futility. ;)

Have at it, young lady. I've found a few claims in it that are easily refutable today, but might not have been to the western English-speaking world at the time the papers were composed. There are points that I do agree with, and some I disagree with. Not enough to draw me in to thoroughly...

"Lord of all the animals" was an epithet of Rudra in the Rig Veda. Is Rudra the same as Shiva? Hmmm.

I don't think the god Shiva is in the Vedas.

Ahh, thanks!

I don't know if the Buddha practiced meditation over corpses in the Charnel grounds. The suttas talk about coming across a corpse in various states of decay on the side of the road and such.

Buddha lived around 1800 years before Baba Keenaram, founder of the Aghori Shaiviete sect, was born.

here: The Urantia Book | Urantia Book | Urantia Foundation

The first five consciousness are the sensory consciousnesses--visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. The sixth consciousness is the intellect. The Seventh consciousness is the "I-making" consciousness, prone to fallacy. The Eighth consciousness, Alaya, is the "storehouse...

Nice work, @badger !

Buddha's recommendation of meditating over putrefying corpses doesn't count? (btw-he and his wife Yashodhara had one child--their son Rahula. Legend has it that he began his quest for the answer to suffering the night Rahula was born. Seeing his wife suffer in childbirth might very well have...

Urantia is the name given to this world (aka Earth, Gaia) in The Urantia Book.

I wouldn't say it is an illusion, but a map that we subjectively create from information gathered from our perceptive functions (sensory functions and intuition.) The map is not the territory.

I normally don't wear jewelry, however I do have amulets. I use my amulets as notebooks, by associating the memory I want recorded with the given amulet. If I need to remember something from a specific ritual, I will either think about the amulet or actually look at the amulet until I remember...