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My views on Buddhism - weblog.Heinrich Dumoulin, well known for his writing on Zen: "One is asked to help and save others in the awareness that really there is no one who helps and saves, nor is there anyone who is helped and saved, and this detachment from the illusion of substantiality is supposed to make one all the more energetic and free in the work of compassion". Is there not a logical

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My views on Buddhism - weblog.From merelogical nihilism or compositional nihilism (that objects with proper parts, spatial or temporal, do not exist, only parts do, to volition's, as an understanding of cetana, which don't exist.-----Cetana (volitions) don't exist? I didn’t know that. Would it help to lessen our sufferings if it did or didn't?------But let me ask you an old question. (One I have

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My views on Buddhism - weblog.My 2 cents worth opinion.I think Buddhism should not be too mystical or too complex. Buddhism is a way of life. To me, being a Buddhist is about keeping the 5 precepts. As long as we keep the 5 precepts, we are okay. We are considered very good Buddhists if we don't break the the precepts. The sila -> samadhi -> panna path are for serious Buddhists.I think there is

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My views on Buddhism - weblog.As at today, with my current perspective on Buddhism, I'll give my 2 cents worth opinions to the topic mentioned above. Kamma is one of the conditions that makes the difference in you and me. Kamma means Intentions. Intention is not random. Intention arise because of 'causes and conditions'. Do we have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, good intention from

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My views on Buddhism - weblog. I am a member of an online Buddhist forum and someone in the forum came up and said that the Buddha taught no-freewill because every will is conditioned, therefore it cannot be free. I agree that our will is not totally free but it is also not totally fated either. According to a few abhidhammikas, there is no 'person' that could control or make good/bad intentions

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My views on Buddhism - weblog. This is a post I wrote to a forum. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on dana, generosity. I enjoyed reading it. I know exactly what you mean about people shelling out money to temples. Many chinese families (my own included), when they go to temples, will donate a few ringgits and pray for the protection and safety of their family. This is the traditional way of

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My views on Buddhism - weblog. A few questions on kamma and anatta. I was interested that, in the context of a logical argument, and what you write about anatta and kamma, that you would then proceed to ascribe ongoing existence to your teachers, and aim to benefit them. I'm afraid this makes no sense to me at all, logically. Which is it to be, anatta or kamma? Or do you believe they are not

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My views on Buddhism - weblog.Some questions that I have replied to in a Buddhist forum are posted here: Indeed, even the very first ~naana alone is sufficient to turn any person into a Sotapanna. Do you think this first ~naana is the same as intellectual understanding through listening to or book learning about the dhammas? Suttamaya~naana = knowledge that results from hearing/learning the

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My views on Buddhism - weblog. These are just my ramblings of the things I find amusing, and sometimes annoying from posts and forums that I read online. I don't claim to have authority in Buddhism or anything like that. I just find some people's opinions on Buddhism - fascinating, some boring, some shocking, and some just plain wrong! Well, in my opinion, it's wrong anyway. Of course, everyone

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