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Apparently you're not familiar with the pun ... A famous Buddhist teacher once said that if being able to sit for long periods of time would be any gu...

Not sure how to take this ... The suttas are not the same as Theravada Buddhism, though. They are part of Theravada Buddhism, but TB is a lot more tha...

Think about this idea. In a Mad Max scenario, would you freely share knowledge and resources with others who might use them against you? Further, as t...

Someone once told me that it has to do with "being better than you were before". E.g. if yesterday, it took you 15 sec to run 100 yards, aim to run th...

Do you still find yourself thinking like this when you try to think this in the context of the Pali Suttas, ie. with the Suttas as your background? Th...

Meaning that chicken are enlightened.

Bodhisattva means 'a buddha-to-be', ie. a person on the path to buddhahood, but not yet a buddha.

That's what one gets for uncritically internalizing pop songs. :razz:

Like I said in another current thread: Moreover, it's not a text that is equivocal or unequivocal. If F = ma seems unequivocal to you, that's because ...

That's skipping a lot of Buddhist doctrine and enshrining Western science as the highest ... And in order to improve the situation, one has to get one...

Sure, but then the government rhetoric should reflect this harsh reality. Although it's not actually harsh, it's the reality of living on this planet....

Yes. The current numbers for Slovenia are: 40 % of those hospitalized for covid are vaccinated 20 % of those needing intensive care are vaccinated

Not sure where this is coming from. Or this. Oh, come on. What's the matter? I don't think of myself as a Buddhist, and I have many problems with Budd...

"Act in bad faith and blame others! appears to be the motto of many individuals and institutions, and not just in this covid situation.

Of course they are. Moreover, there is pressure from employers -- "Come to work, or go to quarantine and lose your job!"

It's still permissible to mandate less than safe medications, under the proviso that the situation is so dire that it warrants such a measure. Of cour...

In your view, what do those rejectors hold as proper epistemological standards? What do they believe that it takes in order to know something?

How do we know that when Mr. Harris uses the same words as the " metaphysical crap thereabouts", he means the same things as the "metaphysical crap th...

This dichotomy doesn't really matter as long as one isn't in a position of power.

I think that this is because so many people are approaching the matter too abstractly and too passively. The various claims being contested by so many...

The rationale is that a highly intelligent person is more likely (on account of being more intelligent) to see the complexity of life, more likely to ...

"Faith in humanity" is what makes the difference between being "normal" and being "antisocial". Edited for typo.

It's a term like "world peace". You're not supposed to think about it too much, but you're supposed to have "faith in humanity" (and you're supposed t...

But this shouldn't be the case. There is, to the best of my knowledge, nothing in the Buddha's teachings that would preclude one from practicing accor...

I have to say though that I am amazed by many modernists, secularists, and various spirishal people. They sure have confidence, and I envy them that. ...

"Whatever we might take that to mean"?? This isn't Humpty Dumpty Land where one can make words mean whatever one wants them to mean. What reasons do y...

Which you have contested so far. You don't consider this or that author authoritative; you say that this or that sutta or doctrine can be interpreted ...

You didn't consider my first post in this thread https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/625528 Why not? In the short term, probably. In the...

Not immediately. But as technology advances, so do the legal matters concerning the use of it. For example in the EU, a registered dairy farmer must h...

The consideration that I find most troubling is that given the placebo effect, there is the possibility that if we believe in the dogma "the covid vac...

And miserable. So miserable. When it eventually comes out that such and such comedian is depressed, or committed suicide, somehow, it's not a surprise...

And that's how Jesus fed multitides with a few fish and a few loaves of bread.

There aren't enough women here for this matter to really become clear one way or another.

Then we don't have to support our views.

Only if their reason for "following Christian morals" is to be a Christian. It could be said that I "follow Christian morals" and some people have tho...

Actually, there are important differences between what the Buddha taught about kamma and rebirth, and what other religions in his time taught about th...

Then where's the problem? You are you, you believe what you believe, you find possible what you find possible. Others are others, they believe what th...

What when it's the government/state who is the actor who uses dubious methods?

I've posted this several times already: The Truth of Rebirth And Why it Matters for Buddhist Practice

I'm repeating it to encourage you to think about it.

Look, what do you want in this conversation? Clearly, your spiritual practice is not bringing you non-attachment, or you wouldn't be here arguing for ...

It's so easy to talk about non-attachment when your life situation is such that you're in a flow of new things coming to you, with no end in sight. It...

It's so easy to underestimate the religious/spiritual effects of a good socioeconomic status.

Start a new thread, to give this proper attention. Or better yet, just read the sequences on dependent co-arising.

And whatever feel-good-feelings these secularists have in their "spiritual practice" come from their relatively good socioeconomic status, not from th...

They are religion/spirituality for rich people. They are an expression of (upper) middle class mentality, as is typical for any secularism. (Although ...

No. Secular Buddhists don't try to realize dependent co-arising. Traditionalists do. Kamma and rebirth are actually implied in dependent co-arising, i...

But have you attained the complete cessation of suffering? No amount of commitment to the wrong practice can lead to the right results.

It's not simply an "obsession with purity", but a matter of efficacy. Can the newer developments that are occuring under the banner of Buddhism delive...

I feel bad for Zwingli being banned. He was in the process of learning some new things about Buddhism, things that were actually making a difference f...