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My question was specifically whether chance plays a part in the process of attaining nibbana. You still haven't provided a canonical reference that it...

None of which matters as long as you are the employee, a subordinate, dependent on the mercy of your boss. It's also an effective way to reign in and ...

What you describe here as having to do with stupidity, I would describe as a matter of wanting people to focus on the task, rather than on the people ...

No, something more fundamental. In real life interactions with people, primacy goes to respect for the social power hierarchy, truth is often a distan...

What a strange thing to say. Surely the reasons that make sense in the context of survival are the most relevant ones!

It's called "smiling depression".

It's a word that people tend to use when they want to discredit the person they're talking to. "This is too deep for you to understand". Or the politi...

Yeah, playing dumb is really constructive.

It's part of how Astrazeneca got a bad reputation. I've heard it on the national news, and I'm sure they can fact-check better than I can. Aww. And co...

And you get extremely inconclusive results.

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By "factually incorrect" you mean what? That there is no heaven, no eternal damnation, and no nibbana?

So? They don't believe in "true nature", or "emptiness".

Did you read the rest of what I said?

They'll probably still call themselves Christians, but they won't be able to promise salvation anymore. "Progressiveness" always comes with a cost: it...

A factor in what? The process of attaining nibbana?

A bodhisattva cannot leave samsara; a bodhisattva is a samsaric being. "Bodhisattva" literally means 'buddha to be', or 'future buddha'. Ie. not a bud...

It means that you are unwilling to put yourself into another's shoes; moreover, you find it redundant to do so in the first place. And who is the arbi...

Take this example, from another thread: Why default to the belief that these young women are not being rational when they refuse to get vaccinated aga...

This seems to assume that the blamers are objectively more advanced than the ones they blame. You can easily find cases where it's evident that the bl...

Exactly.

If your true nature is to be a Mahayani, yes.

Why do you conceptualize this as "stupid", and not as confident? - - - What several posters here describe as stupidity, I would describe as confidence...

I see it not as stupidity, but as post-truth politics in practice. It's a symptom of the mentality that winning is all that matters. And so arguments ...

In Early Buddhism, ignorance, avijja, refers specifically to being ignorant of the Four Noble Truths. Being ignorant of the Four Noble Truths makes wo...

But Americans don't want to be a herd, do they? A part -- perhaps a major part -- of the problem with low vaccination rates is that the US has a priva...

In some countries, a high-risk population that is reluctant to get vaccinated are young medical nurses, for fear that they will become infertile. Now,...

Thank you for your concern. The last two days were quite bad. After the vaccination, I got symptoms as if I had a cold, and then some. The constrictio...

Imagine, Tim Wood, if I had a fatal heart attack and the last words you said to me were:

I probably shouldn't take antipiretics for the hot flashes. Unless I still have them tomorrow. I'll see how the night goes. Besides, one cannot just g...

God no. Hospitals are places one goes to die.

Janssen, motherfuckers, about three hours ago. My left arm feels a bit numb, and I get hot flashes, and some palpitations. As of tomorrow, Slovenia wi...

Some people have too much money. And time.

And, of course, in some jurisdictions, for a death to be ruled a covid death, no covid test and no autopsy are required, just the assessment of a doct...

This is what is happening in some EU countries: A fully vaccinated teacher infects a class of children and coworkers. All must go to quarantene. Now w...

You see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. The world is a good place for you. Mwhahaha!

The difference is in the intention. On the surface, two people can act the same way -- appear generous, tolerant, etc. -- but they differ in what moti...

That's because you're those three monkeys, all in one.

Nonsense. People are generally driven to please their egos, above everything else. This is hardly a novel idea.

Then it's time to realize that one wasn't practicing generosity to begin with, but something else. Be in the clear that you actually want something in...

So what? Man lives to please one's ego. One could be dying in the gutter and still feel satisfied with oneself, blissing out in righteous indignation.

Because at the end of the day, they get to rule the world. And this makes me think that maybe, this is an evolutionary advantage, or the Truth About T...

There are still legal and insurance issues about the covid vaccines that undermine trust in the vaccines:

Your OP _is_ the messenger. You always talk about yourself, you set yourself up as the arbiter of wisdom, truth, whatever it is that you like. You're ...

Which is precisely the sutta I had in mind when I asked the above question. Attaining nibbana does not depend on chance, but on deliberate action. Ind...

There you go, brother Wood. Good luck with ruling the world!

Cars may be safer, and the traffic infrastructure as well, but people are worse drivers.

The matter is primarily psychological and ideological. This whole covid crisis has long since stopped being about the virus or health, but about peopl...

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