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My curly hair is definitely of the Ramen type.
Remembering something is a creative act.
Papoon
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1. An act performed by whom ?
2. So there is neither present nor past ?
3. How do we synchronise these creative acts to arrive at consensus history, or are we all the same creative act ?
Mara is also known as "deva wielding power over the creation of others" (paranimmita-vasavatti deva) residing within the sensuous realm. If you look into Tibetan Buddhist practices of creating a tulpa, the collective thought form is also called a mara or an egregore. Propaganda is one a means employed to create an egregore/mara, which is energized by collective emotion.
1. Wrong question
2. yes there is
3. we can choose to be individuals, or we can be part of the herd/mara
Papoon
Active Member
1. In Buddhism, there is no 'god of the gaps'. Just gaps, LOL
2. If the past is a creative act in the present, then 'past' is meaningless. If past is meaningless, so is 'present'.
3.Since there is no self choosing, there is no choice, only the act. Who can choose to be an individual ? Aggregates ?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
My first Buddhist teach Sangharak****a talked about this a lot about this, the "true individual" rising above the group. I was never clear how it related to the teachings on anatta though.
Is this 'Luciferian' thing a new thing with you?
Do Luciferian Buddhists believe in the continuation of individual consciousness at death (at least until Nirvana is reached)?
Do Luciferian Buddhists believe in the continuation of individual consciousness at death (at least until Nirvana is reached)?
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See Dhammapada XII, as well as this section of Dhammapada I: think about the well-thatched house. What do you think that is supposed to mean?
7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his senses, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated. [1]
8. Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort. [2]
9. Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monk's yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.
10. But whoever is purged of depravity, well-established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe.
11. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.
12. Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential.
13. Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.
14. Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-developed mind.
I've been a member of my Luciferian order for almost 2 years. I've been talking with Luciferians for longer than that.
Don't know.
What do you think "Be an island unto yourself" means in this sutta?
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.043.wlsh.html
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I think Note 2 explains it quite well. The Dhammapada passages seem to be about self-control, self-reliance and Right Effort.
Yeah, I've heard vampires don't like garlic.
Tao de Ching time!
The Mobius function implies the basic structure of numbers (and possibly the Tao de Ching) is not binary but trinary. It may imply a need for correcting the Tao de Ching. For fun I would like your opinion, so I will briefly explain the conundrum. We think of numbers as odd or even, but it is now known that numbers actually have three categories not just two! By this I mean that the fundamental nature of numbers is not binary but tertiary. They are not 'Even or odd' but in one of three categories defined by function mu, with two of the three categories being similar to odd and even but not the same thing exactly. The Tao de Chiang appears to be based upon a reality of two basic things, or two kinds of things, and combinations of them; but it has been known since 1831 that numbers are actually in three categories, not two. Therefore how can the Tao de Ching based upon only two things reflect reality as well as one based upon three?
- 0 The Mobius function is represented by Greek letter mu and returns 0, -1, or +1 for each number. 33% of numbers are in category zero which consists of all square numbers and all of the multiples of them such as 12, 9, 27, 36, 72 etc. Their mu is zero, so about 33% of all numbers have mu of zero. (The percentage is actually 1 - 6/pi^2 not exactly 33%)
- +1 This category is any number that is made of an even number of prime factors, analogous to even numbers but not the same.
- -1 and the -1 category is any number made of an odd number of prime factors, analogous to odd numbers.
In your opinion does this imply that the Tao de Chiang should be extended to include 3 basic parts instead of 2? Remember that if to answer my question you make a random guess please do not do it it based upon the flip of a coin. At least use paper scissors rock! Coin flips are no longer in style.
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The five elements of Taoism consist of two yin elements, two yang elements, and one neutral element.
There are also the Three Pure Ones.
The Three Jewels
The Three Treasures
and The Three Dantian
