I wrote the following a decade ago: A Commentary on the Five Lay Precepts Jim Davis So simple and yet so complicated, the precepts have from the very beginning...
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Shak El
from_alamut
Apr 28, 2006 3:51 am
SHIN POLITICS (for Tino) It is truly sad to see dharma teachers who claim that Shin Buddhism is about everyday life, only to exclude politics from that life. ...
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toraginus
Apr 27, 2006 10:01 pm
I sometimes wonder how much concern there is about social justice within Jodo Shinshu. Part of my particular Catholic upbringing was concern that all people...
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toraginus
Apr 13, 2006 10:54 pm
In July I'll be 75, and I am finally begin to realize and even accept that my controlling mind wants to put everything together in a neat package, preferably...
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Apr 12, 2006 3:41 am
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shin02143
Apr 7, 2006 1:08 am
... Hisao Inagaki has written about this. He put forward the theory that the Buddha taught from different samadhis, i.e. in different meditative states. It is...
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toraginus
Apr 6, 2006 10:28 pm
Aaron, I hardly know where to begin. You remind me somewhat of myself---or the way I used to be. When one reaches 74 --- a kind of natural wisdom sets in --...
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lotusaware
Apr 6, 2006 7:25 am
Hi Aaron, If you didn't have some delusions you wouldn't need the Nembutsu and the 18th Vow! Also Ryk's words are very much to the point. Ultimately no one can...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 6, 2006 2:22 am
"We don't enlighten yet, and then we don't know the all truth yet. If you have any delusions, it is O.K." That is what my Sensei Shousei Hanayama wrote to me...
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chris marbutt
chrisailes01
Apr 5, 2006 6:50 pm
... Interbeing is the term I mostly use anyway. My previous post was mostly in to where I was before I actually landed in the Buddhist camp, so to speak. ...
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lotusaware
Apr 5, 2006 7:29 am
Aaron, Agreed. It is a problem for "calculating minds" as Shinran has said. I took the same view at first that you are taking and it didn't work for me either....
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Shin02143@...
shin02143
Apr 5, 2006 1:55 am
... Actually, I think the Zen saying is "Little doubt, little awakening - great doubt, great awakening." My memory is getting fuzzier. gassho, Rick...
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shin02143
Apr 5, 2006 1:51 am
... No, Aaron, I cannot help you find your way to understanding. The Buddha also said, "Be a lamp unto yourselves." You have to find your own way, just as...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 4, 2006 9:02 pm
Ok I am trying to understand but I'm having a terrible time finding any peace. I composed the following to try and clearify my questions. I hope you'll bear...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 4, 2006 6:13 pm
Hi John, I am still not "getting it". I guess my trouble is I am having a backlash to fairy tale figures. What difference is there between Amida, Jehovah,...
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jhanananda
Apr 4, 2006 3:42 pm
Hello friend, the Buddha used to say, ³Ehipassikho,² see for your self. So, see for yourself what the Buddha really said, There you can also see for your...
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lotusaware
Apr 4, 2006 9:02 am
Hi Aaron, This is a troublesome issue. Not just for you but for most of us. The problem is that we ask about "true" or "false". As was explained to me, that is...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 4, 2006 2:10 am
Thanks Rick and everyone, I just found a section in a Shin hand book talking about this. My guess is this. Amida and the Vow are reality. The details are...
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shin02143
Apr 3, 2006 9:22 pm
... Aaron, I relate. Where some modernist Shinshu thinkers go in their ideas of myth and such has disturbed me as well. Either Amida is real or he isn't. He...
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shin02143
Apr 3, 2006 9:13 pm
... Chris, I can relate to interbeing, but I think the term "oversoul"; is sufficiently well established in Hinduism that if you use it people will mistake your...
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Robert Garvey
rgarvey2001
Apr 3, 2006 1:30 pm
... The word "myth" has a number of different meanings. In chapter eight of his book The Promise of Boundless Compassion, Dr. Alfred Bloom writes: ...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 3, 2006 6:19 am
And by putz I mean me. Ok here we go.... I have a few questions. I understand that "Amida" and the story in the larger sutra are considered a "myth" however to...
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Chris
chrisailes01
Apr 3, 2006 1:53 am
Oversoul is term I picked up from Emerson and the Trascendentalist poets. Emerson calls it "that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular...
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Shin02143@...
shin02143
Apr 3, 2006 1:17 am
... Chris, I'm a bit perplexed about "oversoul." In Hinduism it is called Atman. But Buddha taught the doctrine of Anatman, or "no-soul." I don't think he...
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chris marbutt
chrisailes01
Apr 2, 2006 11:45 pm
... There is a bedrock to my faith that is as unchanging as anything can be in this Saha world. I have a deep conviction that there is something somewhere...
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Shin02143@...
shin02143
Apr 2, 2006 2:41 pm
... I can relate to your situation, Aaron. There is a strong component of "I don't know" in my "practice." Rather than "faith" I prefer "trust" as a working...
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Aaron (Shoren) Boone
shoren108
Apr 2, 2006 10:28 am
I wish I were as certain. Being a hopeless agnostic in almost all matters of spirituality I may take the not so Buddhist approach and apply "faith". I cannot...
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Chris
chrisailes01
Apr 2, 2006 4:49 am
... I also recite the four vows of the Bodhisattva. I vow to save sentient beings knowing that there is no beings to save. I vow to end delusions, though we...
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Shak El
from_alamut
Apr 2, 2006 4:16 am
your mind is buddha your body is the pure land so why vow to be reborn into what you already are? Saying the nembutsu but once is to lift the veil and see the...
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Chris
chrisailes01
Apr 2, 2006 3:43 am
Thank you. I'm currently reading and re-reading. A friend gave me copies of Pure Land, Pure Mind and Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith (the one I'm currently...
