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    Buddhism and God: What's the problem?

    God as a word/concept is ambiguous, it can mean something personal, unique and different to each individual. Some God views could be considered valid by Buddhism, though the typical one isn't. Deconstructing the typical God belief: These 4 qualities are often assigned to God by theistic belief...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    What I really want to know is where is the best place to post my question's and concern's and such to attract the most people and even more importantly: the most enlightened people, to reply and help me? I really need to talk to some truly wise masters about some things that have been of great...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    Discuss Individual Religions forums? What would be a better place to post? Is this not a busy and active forum? This looked to me like the top root forum for Buddhism in general. Maybe I don't understand how this forum structure works here?
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    Thank you everyone for your consideration and time, I will reply to each post asap. Let's look at it this way. How can we help people awaken to the view that actualizing Buddha Dharma values in their life will result in deep, genuine, lasting happiness? Cultivating renunciation. A balanced...
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    Looking for Dharma teachings about depression and suicide

    I'm looking for teachings that cover depression and feelings of suicide. Also anything about suicide from a Buddha Dharma perspective. Any Pali Canon Suttas, or from the Mahayana or from individual teachers that anyone might know about and point the way to. Certainly the core of the Dharma is...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    In the forum 1 step up from here: Religious Education Forum / Discuss Individual Religions (DIR) / Dharmic or in one of the vehicle specific sub-forums under this one, such as Mahayana Basically I'm wondering which of the forums here has the most people. My verbosity:ignore: tends to ward...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    There is a lot to explore in these two lines. For instance, right now I know someone who is struggling with her friend who has some character issues that cause him to inflict disturbing behavior on people and it's clear it causes her a fair bit of stress, frustration etc. He inflicts the same...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    Very nice suggestions Odion, much appreciated. Thank you for the reference Engyo. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I wonder if I should post this question in some of the other forums like the main root for all Dharmic religions, or in one of the more specific sub forums in Buddhism. What...
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    How to teach the Dharma? Are there dangers in teaching Dharma?

    I'm looking for any and all teachings anywhere in all of Buddhism about teaching the Dharma. Are there any teaching in the Pali canon or in the Mahayana or from any teachers throughout history or any teachers today, that covers any field of idea that the Dharma should not be taught to certain...
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    Looking for Buddhist communities and schools for children and family

    I'm married with one 16 month old child. We are looking for a school for our son for when he is ready to enter kindergarten and grade school. We don't want to use the public school system for reasons I'm sure most people are aware of. It's a great concern for us that we find a safe school system...
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    So what is the "end game" of buddhism

    Also it could be said that Buddhism isn't so much a religion with a mythology. It's a psychology, therapy, medicine, and especially education system.
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    So what is the "end game" of buddhism

    Gassho. Glad to be here. :)
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    So what is the "end game" of buddhism

    (please forgive any arrogance or shortcomings, as I'm still working on my weaknesses, including writing skills.) From a certain perspective the Buddhist end-game is to terminate the ultimate/deepest root cause of all suffering, permanently. Quite different from "just to live this life as pain...
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