Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter....
You could say that. Perception, is just that, a perception - not right, wrong, or I, me or mine. When you realise the interdependence of all...
The practice of tummo / psychic heat, has a similar story. The heat produced through this practice is not the goal, but a remarkable side-effect....
Yes. If you engage in the non-meritorious, you will reincarnate in a place of pain and loss, in hell. If you engage in the meritorious, you will...
I thought this was a good essay at the time: Schizophrenia and Mysticism (Bibliographic Essay)
How so?
Perhaps it is because they have humbly learnt not to judge their leaders by appearances. As Sakya Pandita says When a virtuous man...
Re: the greatness of Gautama, why? Happy fish are like happy folks. A being's compassion is indicative of their happiness. If you are so...
All Buddhist doctrine has it's roots in the Four Noble Truths, the fundamental exposition of the nature of samsara; its arising; its cessation;...
As you say, common language is important. For some Buddhists, like Milarepa for example, 'love' is just covert egoism. If you're in love with...
That would be onesided - only the effect. But karma is intention as well, the cause. Cause and effect, or thusness. The state of conditionality...
If we suffer in this life, it is from accumulation of bad karma. This results from our own sin; sin, which from the Buddhist view is seen as...
An eternity of delusion. By the power of all the Tathagatha's, may this be dispelled and the gates of deathlessness be open to you.
Nirvana is the opposite of samsara, and is an extreme. Buddha Shakyamuni taught the middle way beyond extremes.
"It was never my argument," replied Chuangtse. Hueitse expected an answer for his question. Chuangtse's question was rhetorical.
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