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Concerning “extreme ethics” | Buddhist Books Blog

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. Concerning “extreme ethics”. This is the second post courtesy of my hostile interlocutor, Sophia. In fact, she started our conversation by asking what I was going to write about bodhisattvas killing people, and she provided some excellent fodder for the conversation in the form text from a site, here. I suggest you read this before continuing. This is how I addressed the issue with Sophia. I wrote:. You don’t have...

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. Concerning “extreme ethics”. This is the second post courtesy of my hostile interlocutor, Sophia. In fact, she started our conversation by asking what I was going to write about bodhisattvas killing people, and she provided some excellent fodder for the conversation in the form text from a site, here. I suggest you read this before continuing. This is how I addressed the issue with Sophia. I wrote:. You don’t have...

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To Do and Not To Do: Bodhisattva Virtue In Action | Buddhist Books Blog

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. To Do and Not To Do: Bodhisattva Virtue In Action. Continuing comments on Acariya Dhammapala’s A Treatise on the Paramis. Virtue, Acariya Dhammapala tells us, is twofold as avoidance (. P 41) If you keep the five precepts, you are avoiding certain actions. You are. Using intoxicants. This is a type of virtue, certainly we might even say a. Virtue. In this way, your goodness is measured by. Don’t hurt others (or yo...

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. The site of Ron Crouch, psychologist and meditation teacher. One on one lessons. Scandals, Apologies, and Excuses: Why we disarm our discernment. Because this is the kind of habit that keeps abusive people in power. This thought occurred to me while following what has occurred with the famous nondual teacher Andrew Cohen. Who recently released a letter of apology. Why the letter of apology? By Andre Van der Braak,. The Mother of God.

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I started meditating when I was 22, a couple of years after taking an interest in Taoism. Not long after beginning my practice I came across Daniel Ingram’s Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. Daniel’s book is at the ever-evolving heart of the Pragmatic Dharma. Or at Kenneth Folk Dharma. I am sometimes available to teach meditation over Skype and email, or face to to face if you live in the Bristol/Bath area in England. For newcomers, I usually recommend Mindfulness in Plain English. By Ven. ...

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One on one lessons | Aloha Dharma

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. The site of Ron Crouch, psychologist and meditation teacher. One on one lessons. One on one lessons. Ron is unable to take on new people at this time. Please check back, as availability changes. If you are already getting personalized instruction, you can book an appointment with Ron through the online calendar here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Carolin...

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A Dharma Student’s Bill of Rights | Aloha Dharma

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. The site of Ron Crouch, psychologist and meditation teacher. One on one lessons. Larr; Shinzen Young on the Pros and Cons of Dharma Maps (Video). Reflections on Right Speech →. A Dharma Student’s Bill of Rights. We are in a time of transition in Western Dharma communities. The hierarchical student/teacher roles that fit so well in other cultures are not working. A new formulation is needed, one that is modeled on mutual res...These...

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So what the hell kind of Buddhist are you, anyway? | Buddhist Books Blog

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. So what the hell kind of Buddhist are you, anyway? The Buddha’s past lives they are Indian folktales appropriated for didactic purposes by the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha did not. Teach the Abhidhamma to devas in Tavatimsa heaven it is a later scholastic creation, often at odds doctrinally with the Suttas. And the Buddha was not. It is the not the Buddha’s Teaching per se. What might. Tradition. One persona...

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T he Six Perfections by Dale S. Wright | Buddhist Books Blog

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. T he Six Perfections by Dale S. Wright. The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character. By Dale S. Wright. Oxford University Press 2009, 292 pages. The book is entirely Mahayana in orientation, taking its cue from the “Perfection of Wisdom” literature, specifically the. Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom. Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines. And, of course, the. The perfection of tolerance is t...

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The Beginning Bodhisattva’s Practice of Virtue | Buddhist Books Blog

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Quick Guide to Reviews. Readings and writings on Buddhism, yoga, and contemplative science. The Beginning Bodhisattva’s Practice of Virtue. Continuing comments on Acariya Dhammapala’s A Treatise on the Paramis. The middle third of Arya Dhammapala’s A Treatise on the Paramis is, fittingly, taken up with a discussion of how the. Are actually practiced (this would be section (x), running from pp. 35-56). Of that chunk, more than half is devoted to the first two. Mental cultivation or meditation). Which is f...