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  1. Buddha Dharma

    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    I talk about the Pugdala and Citta because Mahayana Buddhism anyway does not deny there is being. It denies there is I and you being. Produced by the two great deceivers, the body and mind formations together.
  2. Buddha Dharma

    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    @sayak83 does that resonate with you in any way?
  3. Buddha Dharma

    Do Christians think it is possible to reject their logic/arguments at face value?

    @Brickjectivity I'm just not sure how you feel that answers my question. No offense intended.
  4. Buddha Dharma

    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    I do not affirm I have an Atman. That is why there is no separateness in anything. As I said in another thread, if I start talking about having an Atman it can be lost and things are divided, but as is- nothing is lost, or can be cast forth from Ultimate Reality. However, when it comes to...
  5. Buddha Dharma

    Anatta (An Essay by an individual Buddhist philosopher)

    Yes the Buddha said many things in words not always easy to grasp. I agree that for the sake of practice, it is better not to speculate about self and not self. I've always thought that. I merely recognize that no self can be another trap. Some teachers have talked about a dangerous...
  6. Buddha Dharma

    why reject christianity

    @Brickjectivity I made a thread for it
  7. Buddha Dharma

    Enlightenment and Idolatry

    You realize I hope that idolatry is a meaningless concept outside of an Abrahamic view of the world
  8. Buddha Dharma

    Do Christians think it is possible to reject their logic/arguments at face value?

    I've noticed a rather odd thing that some Christians seem to do. They say that people reject their faith because of intolerance, extreme ideologies, because they want to sin, or something like that. While I don't discount that may in fact happen. There may be people that reject Christianity for...
  9. Buddha Dharma

    why reject christianity

    No, or there'd be no pain.
  10. Buddha Dharma

    why reject christianity

    Okay, so are you saying then: you don't think a person can hear the premises of Christianity and reject them? You don't think that could happen? It must be the intolerance of some churches? I know people that leave very liberal churches that aren't 'brittle'. It always strikes me as odd that...
  11. Buddha Dharma

    why reject christianity

    I reject it because it really makes no sense. It presents concepts that are not unlikely. They're impossible. Example: Hypostatic Union The notion that God and human can be equally both at the same time inside a single vessel. That is frankly, beyond any logic. That's like saying water and...
  12. Buddha Dharma

    Bond person shoots her client.

    Notice the crickets from the usual 'guns are safe' crowd
  13. Buddha Dharma

    Back to Being a Seeker

    Like nihilism and consumerism as actual points to life?
  14. Buddha Dharma

    Back to Being a Seeker

    It's good that you continue seeking because you want to find something. To find something you do have to keep seeking. Don't give up.
  15. Buddha Dharma

    Your experience with the gods

    That's the ones I am the most inclined to think are such too. More or less. Of course, it could be the gods protect pretty well any paths by which people are seeking and aspiring to higher than the base impulses. I held that view before I became a Buddhist. That the gods are, most of them-...
  16. Buddha Dharma

    Fellow Hellenists? Poseidon would be ruler of the earth realm, as I understand it?

    You don't see the view as going beyond the earth then, as some philosophers did? They talked about Zeus in absolutely glorified terms. See: Cleanthes Hymn to Zeus.
  17. Buddha Dharma

    Your experience with the gods

    I wonder how many of the Greek gods could be called such? Because I accept the Indra/Zeus connection I am pretty sure most of the Olympians assist the Dharma. I get that sense. As you know, Indra was brought to the Dharma by our Lord Shakyamuni according to many texts, but Indra wouldn't cease...
  18. Buddha Dharma

    Why is Christ's sacrifice needed?

    Almost makes it sound like god keeps us under sin and needing his intervention, so that we'll never get out of line again- doesn't it?
  19. Buddha Dharma

    Interview for a World Religion class!

    Gary Buddhism. I came to practice it through encountering a Buddhist, finding that practice helped me, developing love for the Buddha through his attractive qualities like universal compassion, and eventual conversion when all that coupled with the fact I care about suffering in the world...
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    Your experience with the gods

    I receive a lot of premonitions from Apollo that have helped me prevent actual bad situations. He is still my patron after becoming Buddhist. I've felt some gods as intense, not altogether comfortable presences. I've been protected from harm and theft. Athena inspired my Hellenic name, which I...
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