Good Friends: The book that the Sutra Salon is reading for the rest of the year, "The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary" has ...
Good Friends: The July Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers. We will be discussing the Verse Summary of the ...
I didn't check my email this week until today and thought the meeting was next week. Sorry, my bad. I did have trouble getting through the verses and didn't...
Hi Rick, I missed seeing you. I too didn't understand some of the verse section of the Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines sutra, but thought that I would...
Hello All, I was glad to see Rick's note. I also missed the meeting on Tuesday and have been perplexed about the verses, hoping that the narrative would be...
Suzanne Stewart
sstewart@...
Jul 26, 2008 3:57 am
2015
Good Friends: Just to clarify, the Sutra Salon meets on the Fourth Tuesday of every month. Most months that will be the last Tuesday, but on months with five...
Good Friends: It's not surprising that the Perfection of Wisdom is giving rise to confusion among some members of the Sutra Salon. They are confusing, ...
Dharmajim, Oddly, that isn't what gets to me about this sutra. I have really enjoyed reading it. My question is this: Is the PoF8k a very early mahayana...
Dear s.e. douglas, Could you please help me understand your post. What is the "tetra-lemma" argument? Is the "fundamental existence" of a thing anything like...
Greetings: The PfF8k is considered to be early. Dating is a very difficult undertaking in Indian documents. Unlike the Chinese they did not take pains to...
(With abject apologize to Dharmajim for any mistakes I make) ... Buddhists adapted it from a Hindu debate format found in the ancient texts. They refined it...
Dear S. E. Douglas, Thanks for the clarification. I follow all of it except for a couple of paragraphs that will bear reflection and analysis, probably over a...
Hmmm . . . The highlighting I added doesn't show when the email is posted on the Yahoo site. The following statement still are confusing to me: - In...
... confusing to me: No probs.... :D ... It is confusing to me too. I have read the explanation multiple times over the last several years and I don't...
Good Friends: Over the centuries Mahayana Buddhism has developed analytical systems used to meticulously investigate the nature of emptiness. The great Sage...
Good Friends: I want to make a few additional remarks regarding the Madhyamika mode of treating the Perfection of Wisdom. I mentioned that in some ways modern...
Dharmajim, Thank you for pointing out the shallowness of my thought processes. I will refrain from asking ignorant questions in the future. I appologize for...
Jim wrote: "If clinging generates suffering, theneven very subtle examples of clinging need to be addressed. I think the P of W Sutras assume that the audience...
I would like to invite Sutra Salon members to a Sangha meeting. We do a little service, a short meditation, and then we discuss over tea a chapter of the...
HI Dan and all, Reading this made me thing that it might be a good thing to tell Sutra Salon members about our little Sangha that meets in Santa Rosa on...
Bruce Gibbs
bbentonb@...
Aug 4, 2008 6:29 pm
2033
An interesting sidelight to dharmajim's comments on Godel's theorem (which doesn't really alter any of his conclusions) is that Godel showed that any logical...
Dear Dharmajim and other Sutra Friends, I have been otherwise occupied for much of the last three weeks and had not dipped into this conversation for a while....
Good Friends: Thank you for all of your insightful comments. I want to highlight one strategy that madhyamika, and Nagarjuna, specifically uses that several...
Good Friends: The Sebastopol Sutra Salon will meet this coming Tuesday, August 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Many Rivers Books & Tea. We will be discussing the ...
Hi, Jim, Thanks for the reminder. I think others may wish to know, as I do, what pages of the POW book we will discuss this Tuesday. Somehow I lost track of...
Hi Dharmajim, You assigned us Chapters 7-13, pp. 135-183, in the Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 lines, but that is far less than half of the remaining unread...
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