Hello, My name is Alexandra Alter, and I'm the religion reporter for the Miami Herald. I'm trying to learn more about the affinities between Christianity and...
Friends: What are the seven Noble Treasures ? The confidence of Faith. The virtue of Morality. The conscience of Shame. The fear of Blame. The advantage of...
You'll never cease to be, because you've never existed; you'll never die, because you've never lived. There is no `I'. Thought, which is often equated with an...
Friends: Appeasement by Impersonality: Ego, self & soulless are all phenomena, actions, things, events & living beings! There are no EVIL BEINGS... There is...
"Exalt the One over the dyad -- the single over the dual -- and free its nobility from all commerce with dualism, and you will consort immaterially with ...
Friends: What is the Cause of Release ? Morality causes right action. Right Action causes freedom from remorse. Freedom from regrets causes joy. Joy causes...
... Uncanny indeed! Judaism (Quotations from Daniel Matt) The true essence of God cannot be grasped by anyone but God. Anything visible, and anything that can...
Dave, Wonderful collection!! It must have taken hours to write all this down -- thanks for taking the time. I'll be saving it to a file where I've started to...
... I always like that one. I have some thoughts along these lines under the subject of Pronouns: We have two basic problems with pronouns. First is man’s...
Friends: The Eye of the World: The supreme Way is 8-fold ! The supreme Truth is 4-fold ! The supreme State is Detachment. The supreme Being is the Seer ... ...
... Yep it must have, but I didn't do it. We have Deb Platt to thank for an excellent website, http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/ Quotations organised by topic...
I don't know if this has been posted in this list before. For expendiency's sake I am quoting heavily from the "Ecstatic Buddhism" yahoo group fora: === ...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ecstatic_Buddhism/message/86 ... Liberation comes through cessation and extinction, seeking ecstasy is not what Buddha or any...
Friends: Cutting the crucial link between Feeling & Craving: The Buddha said: One seeing a form with the eye ... One hearing a sound with the ear ... One...
... I wouldn't toss aside JB's analysis, regardless of how one may judge of his flavor of Buddhism. There are many ways to transmit the dharma and the use of ...
In interest of keeping this discussion on-topic, here's some related info on state-specific cross-walks and scientific analysis of meditative techniques and ...
There is an understandable concern as to whether jhana mind-states are part of a viable path to freedom. It's important to view them as potential fetters, but...
Friends: Ignorance & Craving creates the pleasure & pain: A wandering philosopher once asked the sitting Buddha: Are pleasure & pain created by oneself ? Not...
Friends: Equilibrist Steering: Avoiding all Evil Doing only Good Purifying Mind So teach all Buddhas. Dhammapada 183 There are these 5 kinds of Control: ...
We don't improve with age, we just become more complex, calculating, verbose, and prevaricating. The only true progress is the realization of this. But, by...
... Nicely put, but this is much too bleak an assessment, a self-defeating nostalgia that can easily entrench a person in just another kind of dukkha. Yes it's...
Friends: Group Altitude Gain: Know that every time you do a Right Action, both you & your friends, family and community Gain future height of pleasure and...
Friends: Delight is Addictive while Disgust sets Free: The Buddha said: Bhikkhus, there are these two states. Which Two ? Looking with Delight on things &...
Bhikkhu Samahita, Would you say that the Lord Buddha is here advocating a skillful use of "disgust," rather than asserting that disgust is superior to delight...
Abhiraja27 wrote: "Would you say that the Lord Buddha is here advocating a skillful use of 'disgust....' " Hi Abhi - My knee-jerk reaction to the passage...
"Renunciation is the whole basis of the spiritual path. If you don't have renunciation, you don't have realization. . . . In the end, if you want to be free, ...
Are Buddhas never delighted? As I stated in my letter, I recognize the role that disgust may play in cutting through an attachment to something. I just am...
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