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Transcultural Buddhism: Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Monday, 30 December 2013. Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha. That's what many of us say on the first of January - and it isn't just about the after effects of New Year's Eve. Never, ever, again! New Year is the traditional time for kicking old harmful habits, and resolving to stop causing further hurt to ourselves and others. Gives us a fresh. Harmful, negative tendencies. And states of mind. We think o...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Collateral damage
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Saturday, 9 January 2010. Xenophobia or militant secularism? In earlier posts I blogged about the danger of the rising European backlash against Islam. Producing collateral damage to harmless 'foreign' faiths such as Buddhism, due to guilt by association and cultural xenophobia ( here. Aren ’t no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst.". A plague on both your houses. A large proportion of the country believes that the ...
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Rational Buddhism: Mysterians, Mysterianism and the Mystery of the Mind
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Sunday, 21 October 2012. Mysterians, Mysterianism and the Mystery of the Mind. Progress on The Hard Problem. Will come not by trying to understand consciousness in physical terms, which is impossible, but by explaining WHY. It is impossible to understand consciousness in physical terms. Is the philosophical position that the mind cannot be explained in terms of physical structures and processes. It comes in two varieties:. In the ph...
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Transcultural Buddhism: The Samsaric (Worldly) Gods
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Sunday, 6 December 2009. The Samsaric (Worldly) Gods. The first commitment: 'Do not go for refuge to Samsaric. God's in his heaven, all's. Right with the world. I never really understood what 'Do not go for refuge to Samsaric. Worldly) Gods' meant until Professor Richard Dawkins. Lifted the lid on the whole can of worms, viruses, memes. In his Channel 4 series. The Root of all Evil. And the Virus of Faith. They forgot to ment...
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Transcultural Buddhism: The Three Poisons of the Mind in Buddhism and Islam
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Thursday, 29 October 2009. The Three Poisons of the Mind in Buddhism and Islam. One should not criticize other spiritual paths.". But what if the 'Spiritual Path' is actually nothing of the sort, but a predatory, supremacist, totalitarian, political ideology masquerading as a religion. It's now time to abandon reticence and speak out about this menace. The alternative is to acquiesce to evil. The Three Poisons of the Mind are:.
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Transcultural Buddhism: Sutra and Tantra in Buddhism
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Monday, 14 December 2009. Sutra and Tantra in Buddhism. It's sometimes thought that Sutra. And Tantra are two completely separate Buddhist paths, with Sutra. Being philosophical and tantra being 'mystical', 'esoteric' and 'devotional'. But in fact Tantra follows logically from Sutra. Arising and reborn out of emptiness. The discussion on emptiness. Showed that all functioning phenomena are free from inherent existence. Existe...
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