emptybill:
According to HHDL we are an eternally transmigrating
bindu of consciousness which is the unity of manas
and prana...
Did the historical Buddha teach that people have a
transmigrating soul-monad? In fact, the Buddha Shakya
said nothing about people being reincarnated
emptybill:
It's true Willy
you have no free will.
We are either free or we are bound. If free,
then why did the Buddha spend five years
striving to be free? If we are bound, by what
means can we free ourselves?
You're just so right ... you are just the
effect of past causes. Whatever
Vaj:
Question: Do sentient beings have free will?
HHDL: According to Buddhism, individuals are
masters of their own destiny. And all living
beings are believed to possess the nature of
the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra...
So, is the 'Samantabhadra' Buddha absolute, or
just a
emptybill:
According to HHDL we are an eternally transmigrating
bindu of consciousness which is the unity of manas
and prana...
Did the historical Buddha teach that people have a
transmigrating soul-monad? In fact, the Buddha Shakya
said nothing about people being reincarnated into
It's true Willy
you have no free will. You're just so
right ... you are just the effect of past causes. Whatever happens just
happens
there is no owner.
There is nothing that makes you what you are.
Dzogchen Samantabhadra Buddha (not the Mahayana bodhisattva) in only
taught in Dzogchen. He
Yes indeed...Homo Automatonica!:
http://www.ectomo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/automaton.jpg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@... wrote:
It's true Willy
you have no free will. You're just so
right ... you are just the effect of past causes. Whatever happens
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
HH the 14 Dalai Lama answers questions after a Dzogchen teaching in
San Jose, CA in 1989:
Question: Do sentient beings have free will?
HHDL: According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own
destiny. And all
On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:35 AM, wgm4u wrote:
This is true BUT, the soul must be redeemed from the entanglements
of matter (i.e. attachment of the senses to their objects, material
attachment, ego, etc.).
Soul?
Soul travel, or rising above bodily consciousness, is the goal of Sant Mat (a
dualistic Sidhi in the Advaitic context). Nevertheless, the attainment of this
Sidhi according to Sant Mat teachings is sufficient for ending reincarnation.
Kirpal Singh states:
Nobody can see the soul with these
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:22 PM, yifuxero wrote:
Soul travel, or rising above bodily consciousness, is the goal of
Sant Mat (a dualistic Sidhi in the Advaitic context). Nevertheless,
the attainment of this Sidhi according to Sant Mat teachings is
sufficient for ending reincarnation.
Kirpal
Nope: Ultimately, on that level, there's nothing apart from the Self; but
conventionally, rocks, trees, people, birds, etc, exist. That's existence, a
word that may be preferred over Brahman.
In any event, whether there's a Soul or not depends upon one's definition, of
course. In Sant Mat,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote:
On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:35 AM, wgm4u wrote:
This is true BUT, the soul must be redeemed from the entanglements
of matter (i.e. attachment of the senses to their objects, material
attachment, ego, etc.).
Soul?
In
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@... wrote:
The basic entity under consideration in Sant Mat is the Soul, (the causal
subtle body).
...
The real question is, does anything exist, not whether the Soul exists. If
indeed, there is a universe, and things exist
(snip)
Do We Actually Exist?
'I THINK, THEREFORE I AM' DOESN'T ALWAYS HOLD TRUE
(snip)
The feeling that 'I exist' does not require any thinking at all...
It is just the awareness that 'I am' I exist...
All creatures on earth have this, whether they can think or not...
Whether a bird, animal
thx, that's not a proof. You're saying we exist since we exist. But you haven't
proven the first exist.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@... wrote:
(snip)
Do We Actually Exist?
'I THINK, THEREFORE I AM' DOESN'T ALWAYS HOLD TRUE
(snip)
The feeling that 'I exist'
The sense of I...
Is existence...
If you didn't exist, you wouldn't feel 'I'...
If you feel 'I' you obviously exist.
Try not to think to hard about it...
R.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
thx, that's not a proof. You're saying we exist since we exist. But you
thx, true, it (existence) is self-evident; but self-evidence isn't a proof.
That's why philosophers don't think to much on this question, accepting it
without argument as a premise...then going on to other considerations.
...
Rocks exist but there's no evidence of an I feeling among rocks that
According to HHDL we are an eternally transmigrating bindu of
consciousness which is the unity of manas and prana. This bindu resides
in the heart. It descends into the channels to take up residence and
then ascends out of them to enter the bardo and take up another body.
This is not a
Might be amusing to travel to other planets in/as a Soul, leaving the physical
body. Not a need, just fun. Or, to other realms and dimensions. Such
exploration may be the wave of the future.
...
After seeing the Hawking special on travel to other planets, I don't see how
the space/time factor
On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:17 PM, emptybill wrote:
According to HHDL we are an eternally transmigrating bindu of consciousness
which is the unity of manas and prana. This bindu resides in the heart. It
descends into the channels to take up residence and then ascends out of them
to enter the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote:
thx, that's not a proof. You're saying we exist since we exist. But you
haven't proven the first exist.
The problem with these types of discussions is that they require the people
having the discussion to agree on how to
thx, excellent points! The idea is that given the premise (that the universe
exists), we can then extrapolate into different outcomes, making some headway
in attacking my favorite targets: the Neo-Advaitins. This involves showing
somehow that persons exist, first of all, conventionally
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