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More BS. Just answer the qeustion.

No worries. Maybe it will provoke some interest.

Your wife is gay? How does that work in practice if you're straight?

Please move this thread to the New-age forum. High BS levels are normal there! I'm concerned that any actual Buddhists visiting here would be so overwhelmed by the stench that they'd never return. "Buddha save me from new-agers!"

Please just answer the question, and please stop the BS.

Please just answer the question I asked. My BS monitor has now shorted out.

I think homophobia is male-based medieval bigotry, and it disgusts me how some "religious" types condone it. Its also curious how lesbians are invariably exempted from this mindless nonsense.

I don't think so, its comparing apples and oranges. To me Western and Eastern thought are fundamentally different. I don't need get the need to make them equivalent or parallel, why not just understand and respect the differences?

Again, this proselytizing is nothing to do with Buddhism, and probably belongs in the New-age forum. As a general observation, why bother with a sub-forum structure if people ignore it? If you want new people here, then you need to up your game.

What I do have is a finely-tuned BS monitor, and it's off-scale when reading your posts. But I'd still be interested in a straight answer to my original question. Do you think the OP sutta is describing some kind of continuing personal essence, and if so, how is that different from Atman...

I find new-agers frustrating, particularly when they misrepresent authentic traditions. So sue me. :p

Maybe this thread should be moved to the New-age sub-forum? I don't think it has much to do with Buddhism.

Look at your post above at 10:21 for example. You come across not as somebody who really wants to learn, but as somebody who is just trying to prop up an idiosyncratic belief system, spuriously claiming that various traditions agree with your view. You come across as a new-ager.

Clearly a lot better than you do. I'm not convinced you really want to learn about them though. If you want to learn, ask questions, don't proselytize your personal beliefs.

I would advise not posting on either Buddhist or Hindu forums with this kind of new-age nonsense, it will not be well-received. :p Though ironically, if you really want to understand these traditions, that is probably what you need to do.

I completely disagree, and Brahman is nothing like the Abrahamic God. I suspect you are viewing Hinduism through a Christian lens, which is bound to be misleading.

Unfortunately you still haven't answered my question. What you have described above sounds much more like a Hindu view than a Buddhist one, quite Advaita-ish. I'm quite partial to the Hindu view myself these days, but I wouldn't confuse it with the Buddhist one. And we are in the Buddhist...

Let's stick with the OP sutta. As I said, I find it rather ambiguous, but you seem to be reading in the idea of a contining personal essence, something rather like an Atman? Do correct me if I've misunderstood your view, I've had to make some assumptions because you won't give a straight answer...

My translation of Gita 12:20 reads: "Those who honour this immortal law, as I have described above, keeping their faith, intent on me as highest, are most dear to me!" I had a look through Gita Chapter 12 and can see no references to "waters of everlasting life", which sound more like a...

I wasn't talking about God, I was pointing to the shallowness of universalism amd perennialism. In my view constructive interfaith dialogue behind with an acknowledgement of differences, and not with the papering over of cracks, or with woolly and wishful thinking.