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- Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5815
Re: Shardrol and Buddhism
There is one thing in Buddhism that isn't method & that is emptiness. Yes, but that is in everything. Even if all understanding of Buddhism should disappear, and only the outer shell of "Buddhism" remain - a lifeless husk - Buddhism will still lack inherent existence. Yes. I didn't mean to imply th...
- Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5815
Re: Shardrol and Buddhism
Buddhism is method rather than truth. I would agree that it contains methods. Even simple explanations of the law and cause and effect cannot really convey the truth of cause and effect to a person whose mind is unable to generate that truth within itself. So the explanations are themselves a kind ...
- Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why do you all react?.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12948
- Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:14 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Most enlightening book/author
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7381
- Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5815
Re: Shardrol and Buddhism
I have met countless Buddhists who think that they can't achieve great realizations, or participate in advanced Buddhist practices, without having first received some kind of transmission, empowerment, authorization, from a physical teacher. So something terribly wrong has happened somewhere along ...
- Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:59 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5815
Re: Shardrol and Buddhism
My problem with guru-yoga is that it depends on gurus. If gurus and guru yoga actually work to create wise people, then I have no complaints with it. But often there are no genuine (wise) gurus to be found, and still a person has to develop their own wisdom. You could argue that, in the absence of ...
- Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Shardrol and Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5815
Re: Shardrol and Buddhism
I was wondering if your understanding of reincarnation might have changed to what I call "the esoteric interpretation". You can see it explicated in The Questions of Kutananda . By this understanding each of us is spinning off countless "future lives", simultaneously, each moment. My understanding ...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:54 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11446
Re: Shardrol
This sounds a bit like 'are you still beating your wife?' but yes I admit it, I am still teaching Buddhism.ksolway wrote:Shardrol,
Are you still teaching Buddhism? Have you made any major realizations lately?
I'm not sure what you'd call a major realization, but probably not.
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:47 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11446
It's interesting that so many people (men & women both) judge a woman first by her appearance, no matter what the context. Women are required to be pleasing to the eye - an ugly woman is an offense to all. I think this is a genetic thing. Women are judged on their physical appearance, which transla...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11446
I would disagree with Carlyle here (& I'm probably taller than him as well). Ugliness is not an objective quality - it's an aesthetic opinion. Certainly a person's character will show in their face to some degree, but height seems independent of personality. I don't know what you mean by a 'short' n...
- Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:56 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Writings of Foxylaythee
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11446
It's interesting you mentioned the other women there - one of them was vile. Short, overweight and a weird personality. . . It's interesting that so many people (men & women both) judge a woman first by her appearance, no matter what the context. Women are required to be pleasing to the eye - an ug...
- Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Death Penalty Sux
- Replies: 54
- Views: 17082
Hello, Faizi. The way to understand people is to study the part of yourself that's the same as them. So if you want to understand Ted Bundy you have to find the 'serial killer within' (he's the one that got rid of that pesky inner child). The real live Ted Bundy is irrelevant to this process. He pro...