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  1. Ekanta

    [Buddhists] Hinayana originated from mahayana?

    And you should perhaps look at the film before making comments.
  2. Ekanta

    [Buddhists] Hinayana originated from mahayana?

    The usual version is that hinayana is the original buddhism and mahayana originated a few centuries after. But this professor gives a different verion. In the beginning there were no difference in the basic teaching but different meditation manuals and teachers borrowed from teach other, thus...
  3. Ekanta

    Devas and angels

    I found an intersting quote from Sathya Sai Baba that runs as follows: "The residence of the soul in the world of the moon (Chandra-loka) is what the Hindus refer to as the time spent as a god (deva) in Heaven, or as an angel according to Christian and Islamic religions."...
  4. Ekanta

    aham brahmasmi --why so confusion ?

    Have you made up your mind yet?
  5. Ekanta

    aham brahmasmi --why so confusion ?

    Well, I have as much interest in discussion with as I would with a stone, so I leave it here. Just a reminder... calling people idiots might be against the forum rules.
  6. Ekanta

    aham brahmasmi --why so confusion ?

    Try Mandukya Upanishad second verse... "All this is, indeed, Brahman. This Atman is Brahman. This same Atman has four quarters." But I know, shruti is absurd right? On a side note: When referring to shruti, I should have made it more clear (although for me it was obvious). I meant the...
  7. Ekanta

    aham brahmasmi --why so confusion ?

    The problem with dvaita theology is that you have to explain away 10.000 statements where atman = brahman...
  8. Ekanta

    Consciousness

    I was under the impression that there is only one consciousness...
  9. Ekanta

    Chakra's four questions

    The thing is (according to advaita) that one is not fit for jnana untill one has a pure and concentrated mind. Those are reached by karma and upasana. If we neglect it, we turn the whole advaita tradition upside down. When it comes to the word viveka (discrimination) its used at different...
  10. Ekanta

    Chakra's four questions

    Aupmanyav... there is a contradiction. You say you "adhere to advaita", yet you say "I go my lonely way". For example you say: "I extend Brahman even into Vyavaharika, and therefore, do not need Gods and Goddesses." But Brahman is reached by using maya! If we look at the upanishads, they mostly...
  11. Ekanta

    Eightfold Path

    I didnt write "a God", I wrote "God concept in the monistic sense". To quote zen master Deshimaru: "Zen studies the true mind, the essence of the mind (shin jin means faith in mind), the essence of the mind of Christ, Buddha or God. In the depths of consciousness, in true silence exists Atman...
  12. Ekanta

    If consciousness is primary, how could that be evidenced?

    This is interesting. Lets say we investigate the human body and find out that consciousness requires a brain. How did we find out? At no time in that process was consciousness absent! Yet we say "consciousness is generated by the brain". The most basic thing that is there all the time is...
  13. Ekanta

    If consciousness is primary, how could that be evidenced?

    And how do you even know that? Because of consciousness! How do you know you have a body? Because of consciousness! How do you know anything? Because of consciousness! THAT is the obvious, and the rest is pure denial.
  14. Ekanta

    Eightfold Path

    Ok he says in summary: "Sangha is the spiritual company and Buddha is the ideal.... ", nice eplanation! But its possible to drive it even deeper (and Im writing this since its not often heard of): Dharma is the essential nature of a thing, i.e. Buddha-nature (its the same as truth, and teaching...
  15. Ekanta

    Eightfold Path

    Just a question: What is the use in taking refuge in Buddha, you do know he is dead? And what is the use in taking refuge in the Sangha, since is mostly for monks/nuns? Surely there must be a deeper meaning behind the tripple refuge? I have an answer, but would like you to answer first.
  16. Ekanta

    Buddha and the Upanishads

    Actually we dont have to wonder about it. In every quote you can find (hinayana tradition), he said the skandhas are not the self. He never said there is no self. This is what he said and nothing else. Both hinduism and buddhism say the gods and the multitude is impermanent. Buddhism (hinayana)...
  17. Ekanta

    If consciousness is primary, how could that be evidenced?

    Then you are conscious of both (object or "self") arn't you? CONSCIOUS of both! So in both cases consciousness comes first. It doesnt matter how you turn it around. To say there is an object without consciousness becomes a useless statement, cause there is no consciousness to verify it. And...
  18. Ekanta

    If consciousness is primary, how could that be evidenced?

    Consiousness comes Before object, since you need consciousness to know the object, and not the other way round...
  19. Ekanta

    Seeking info about Advaita Vedanta

    Hello hindukrishna.... I wonder how you use the Word "consciousness". How would you use it in relation to these verses? Aitareya Upanishad 3.1.4 "… All these have Consciousness as the giver of their reality; all these are impelled by Consciousness; the universe has Consciousness as its eye and...
  20. Ekanta

    Origins of the Mahavakyas

    Thats why jnana comes last, even in the upanishads themselves, there is often karma & upasana, before the jnana i taught.
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