Dear Ted, Rebellion is more subtle, it 's not "Just" the hegelian opposite of obedience. And there are degrees of rebellion, epidermic- juvenile, fr'instance...
I agree with you that there is a lot of subtlety here, and that a lot of attentiveness is called for. let's forget the words rebellion and obedience for a...
I'm sorry, I have to do this. What a load of jumped up waffle. I am sure you could say what you want in a more simple way. You seem to be caught up in your...
lol - I should be so lucky. :-) I'm more than happy to put it in a simpler way (though I thought what I said here was fairly straight-forward). can you clue...
The Emergence of Western teachers of Buddhism and Meditation February 1, 2006 By Jhanananda (Jeffrey S. Brooks): (copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 all rights...
In response to a general question by David on the other list, I thought a directed discussion might help. Here is an excerpt from the Shin... Excerpt From The...
David, There is another branch of Shin called Amida. Amida is a the section of Judo Shun Sho that prays to Amida Buddha with chanting. This is the form...
Good essay Jeff. Who knows maybe 2,000 years from now there will be a long-established and venerable tradition called Jeffism. But if we could go forward in...
Interesting... Amida sounds very Hindu, with the distinctions hinduism places between different practices for different levels of understanding (though the...
Hello friends, every one has something to offer, and it is not the same thing for everyone. We do not expect anything of our members, we would just like...
this form of shin is not well known here in the west. Gyoseki was a good friend of mine and my daughter. Great man. Honorable one. He was a Western man who...
Hello dear friends Patricia, Ted, David and lighterbeing_333 and others, it was a pleasure reading your messages. I agree with you all. Ted described the...
The form of reincarnation I see is that of a 'fundamental' or 'the unspoken' being that lies in the center of the current 'self'. The current self dies with...
David, well, let me preface by saying that this is not my particular way of seeing this issue; different strokes, yah? :-) rather than try (as you put it) to...
... of seeing this issue; ... to 'shoot you down', however, I ... when I read this. so here ... to life? nothing material, ... memories, or thoughts, or ... ...
... hmmmm... :-) there are many maybes in the world, it's true. I think the problem, a lot of the time, is that people jump after answers before they finish...
Ted, This is getting the base of the matter. What is Buddhism? My definiton begins with a discussion of the 4 noble truths, the eight fold path and the middle...
<smile> No, his cultural path was a vedantist who found that the ascetic(VERY IMPORTANT!) was not the path for him. So he found that the issues could be...
D, I think you missed what Miguel was aiming for. it wasn't the historical question of whether Gotama Buddha was a buddhist (which of course he wasn't -...
Mendicant monks are still to be seen in several Eastern countries. However, if 2,500 years ago they could be acceptable - low cost of life, less people, not...
ah, see, that's where I would disagree. liberation takes you beyond form and identification. being buddhist of hindu or taoist or one of the judeo-christian...
That is one of those horrible Zen things. Let me try it this way. There are many paths up the mountain. Mine is called Buddhism. I am happy for others to have...
David, the issue is the formation of concepts. Concepts drop away, they are all the transitory. . They are defined by comparison and contrast. The "goal"...
Ted, you are reading disagreement where there is none. Liberation also takes you past the concepts formlessness and non identification. The concepts are...
Miguel, In the US we still appear to have a large homeless population that includes various types of mendicants. It is interesting that some truly are...
ok. :-) ... concepts formlessness and non identification. The concepts are ultimately meaningless. Identity and non identity are conceptual. ... liberation...
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