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  1. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    Because what people like me and crossfire have posted is part of buddhadharma, whether you want to see it or not. It's not suggestible that one try to view one religion through the lens of another, if one wants to truly understand that religion. Buddhism is not Hinduism, or any other religion.
  2. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    Nirvana is experienced in the here and now, by our temporal bodies and minds, when one has become enlightened, liberated, and purified. But we have to remember the differences between nirvana, and parinirvana.
  3. dyanaprajna2011

    Cessation of Suffering and Rebirth...Why?

    Yes, the Buddha taught the middle way between extremes, such as the extremes of complete self indulgence, and the extreme of complete self denial.
  4. dyanaprajna2011

    Legoland UK shut down after threats from right-wing

    True. But you never know when you'll get that one that actually goes through with their threats, and has enough fire power to back it up.
  5. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    I was going to say that. Too many people trying to force their own views onto Buddhism, when it doesn't really work that way. Buddhism is Buddhism, Advaita is Advaita, etc.
  6. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    My thoughts exactly.
  7. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    You would have to admit that spending a great deal of time in/with something doesn't necessarily equate to having learned anything from it.
  8. dyanaprajna2011

    Cessation of Suffering and Rebirth...Why?

    The Buddhist view is that attachment is a bad thing because it doesn't lead to living the holy life, it takes away from it. Buddhism teaches that things can still be enjoyed without being attached to them. We just have to be careful (or rather, mindful), or else our enjoyment of something can...
  9. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    Here's where I think the problem is coming in. Buddhism teaches anatta-that there is no eternal, independent, ego-soul. What some people seem to be getting out of this, is that there is no such thing as being itself. That all this, ourselves, everything, is somehow just an illusion. The...
  10. dyanaprajna2011

    Why exactly does realization of Anatta/Impermanence lead to the cessation of suffering?

    There's nothing to add. You pretty much hit the nail on the head. :)
  11. dyanaprajna2011

    Legoland UK shut down after threats from right-wing

    Here's what's almost funny to me, if it wasn't so sad/scary: right-wing groups decry the actions of fundamentalist Muslims who cause terror, and yet their response is to cause terror themselves. I hope the irony isn't lost on them.
  12. dyanaprajna2011

    Cessation of Suffering and Rebirth...Why?

    That generally happens when you try to understand one worldview when working under the mindset of a completely different worldview. :) One can't avoid pain, or the things that cause pain. What we can do, however, is to "reboot" our minds, in order for the pain or the things that cause it...
  13. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    I find it a bit misleading when you use Soto Zen as an example of your position. Knowing your position, you'd do well to read the 21st chapter of the Shobogenzo, where Dogen explicitly denies your position.
  14. dyanaprajna2011

    Legoland UK shut down after threats from right-wing

    Britain's Legoland to shut after extremist threats What does the right wing have against Legoland? Apparently Muslims having fun there. This is just sad.
  15. dyanaprajna2011

    Cessation of Suffering and Rebirth...Why?

    If one is detached from money and things, the fact that something of theirs was stolen doesn't cause one suffering. It's something basically along the lines of mind over matter, but applied spiritually. There's no need to suffer at the loss of one's possessions, when one has no attachment to...
  16. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    For those who would believe that Buddha nature is equivalent to atman, Dogen would disagree: This is the understanding in Zen. Buddha nature is just a positive language expression of sunyata. And remember, Dogen was a devotee and lover of the Lotus sutra, which is sometimes used to try to...
  17. dyanaprajna2011

    Buddhism and syncretism

    All good points. Which is why this is such a sticky subject. On the one hand, we have quotes like this: from here: Sakka-pañha Sutta: Sakka's Questions And this one: from Nagita (Thag 1.86) Single Verses: (selected passages) But then we have, like crossfire has said, that anyone or group...
  18. dyanaprajna2011

    Buddhism and syncretism

    For some time, I accepted the teachings of the Perennial Philosophy. Because of this, I believed that religious syncretism was a good thing. I've slowly been reducing my belief in that, however. Since the topic of anatta has come up quite a bit recently, I've been wondering exactly how much...
  19. dyanaprajna2011

    Atman, Other-Emptiness, and other Buddhists

    These.
  20. dyanaprajna2011

    Anatta

    If it was a debate between Buddhists over anatta, we could take it to the same faiths debate forum. But it's someone who's not even a Buddhist debating in the DIR.
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