Search results

It's like the Mafia clinging to Catholicism, which is also non-violent. As long as there's jam around, there'll be flies.

Thus have I heard. At one time the Lord was staying at Uruvela beside the river Neranjara at the foot of the Mucalinda Tree, having just realized full enlightenment. At that time the Lord sat cross-legged for seven days experiencing the bliss of liberation. Now it happened that there...

Isn't boredom a form of suffering/dissatisfaction? An end of suffering is just that, a complete cessation of all afflictive states of mind, through pain, hunger, restlessness, envy, doubt, fear etc.

Life and death are two sides of the same coin, being is delimited by none being. The more you cling to the extremes of being / existing / owning the more you will suffer at inevitable death.

Desires are endless, and not everyone goes about their desires the same way. This only leads to suffering.

The mantra is 'OM KRECHA RAGHANA HUM HRI SVAHA'. Say that 3 or 7 times and blow on your feet or tyres.

Is there an example you could share? Hypothetical is getting difficult.

It is universal law that all things change. Attaching to something - a car, a point of view - is disregarding this universal law, that all things must change, and that that car or view, at some point, will cease. If something ceases and you are attached to that, you suffer greatly. Besides...

http://www.buddhanet.net/insight.htm

Very unhealthy. Probably the worst thing you could actually do, even worse than matricide, patricide, killing an arhat, injuring a Buddha, or causing a schism in the religious community.

You're probably right.

You take refuge from the dissatifaction of samsara. You take refuge in the triple gem: Buddha Dharma (truth/his teachings) Sangha (community of Buddhists) There are many entry points, but to formally become Buddhist, you need to take refuge. See which one takes your fancy...

With a high enough dose, you will experience dissolution of the personal self (the conventional ego), but for the disenchantment of self-nature itself - this is more profound and more difficult to achieve.

Dharmakirti is the accepted master on the subject of valid cognition. Here're a few links. Heavy stuff though. http://www.virginia.edu/soasia/newsletter/Fall96/15.BookReview.html http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?CatNumber=14817

The merit of your actions depends on your intentions. The merit of your intentions depends on your view.

No?

Hi Different systems use deities differently. For instance, Vairocana is sometimes in the middle of the mandala, and sometimes it is Aksobhya. All yidams/ishtadevatas are emanations of the enlightened mind, so there is no difference in essence between them. They are all essentially empty...

'Love is covert egoism' - Milarepa

Hmmmm... The term "real" is slightly different to what I mean. In Buddhism, as with Einstein, everything is relative. In other words, all phenomena depend on each other for their reality - so they are just appearances. No thing is "real", as in "inherently existing". Those experiences, they...

Direct perception and inference. Some say scripture as well, but I think it really boils down to direct perception in the end. So to really know the hell realm and be sure about it, you need to experience it directly. To really know God, you would have to experience him directly. Experiencing...