Buddhists out here? (32)

1 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 05:41 ID:SpxXSbyP

Just wondering. I'm a Rinkai Zen practicioner myself, although I'm not very devoted or anything.

2 Name: DQN男 : 2006-05-05 05:58 ID:Heaven

It is so hard to resist this thread.

3 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 07:47 ID:Heaven

I'm from the Mahayana school of thought.

4 Name: : 2006-05-05 10:15 ID:mYfToD66

5 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 13:05 ID:v3yhcLlp

How do you become a Buddhist? I'm interested since Christianity doesn't offer much to me...

6 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 13:41 ID:aNpQuNiD

You have to pass the 499 trials and cut off your penis.

7 Name: sage : 2006-05-05 16:49 ID:vm22X79y

>>6 That was mean to be a koan, and not to be taken literally. BTW, here are the keys to your new Hummer.

8 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 19:44 ID:0liEBc8U

>>5 Don't think, and you'll be Buddhist

9 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 21:08 ID:vm22X79y

>>5 Don't act, and you'll become a Taoist.

10 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-05 21:09 ID:Heaven

>>5 Feel Guilty, and you'll be either jewish or catholic, you pick.

11 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-06 00:48 ID:XfEVj3Kh

>>5 Don't, feel and you'll be Atheist.

12 Name: Shii : 2006-05-06 01:03 ID:PhXqEZEf

Wash your bowls.

13 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-06 02:59 ID:SpxXSbyP

Zen is like Tanasi∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵∴∵

14 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-06 21:35 ID:xY+oSN7r

Buddhist Quote:

All know the Way, but few actually walk it.

15 Name: Anonymous : 2006-05-12 00:49 ID:SpxXSbyP

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

It's weird how everything the Buddha has said seems to fall in line with what I've believed for some time.

16 Name: shii : 2006-05-12 01:13 ID:Heaven

A book for you

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060730676/

You can find it in your local bookstore.

17 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 00:29 ID:juNcbidf

空即是色
色即是空

"Everything gonnna change."
"All things what have shape and color gonnna change."

"Don't believe everything."

18 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 01:26 ID:SpxXSbyP

>>17
All emptiness is color.
All color is empty.

Buddhism discussion board:
http://www.anonib.com/_lolwut/index.php?b=3

19 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 06:18 ID:juNcbidf

色 means not only "color" but also "desire" and "matter".

20 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 07:10 ID:SpxXSbyP

>>19
Okay, that makes more sense :P

21 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 07:29 ID:Heaven

>>16
Yes, read a book by some moronic westerner rolls eyes

You might as well tell him to read DT Suzuki.

22 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-01 15:28 ID:SpxXSbyP

>>21

Race and culture don't qualify or disqualify someone for enlightenment or knowledge of Buddhism. Rate the book on its own merits.

23 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-02 00:27 ID:xU9WiPXU

>>22
I meant in terms of scholarship. The Buddhism that most people know (and talk about) is more or less manufactured bullshit from Suzuki and Henry Olcott. I mean, shit, Olcott's book is more or less the "holy book" for Sri Lankan Buddhists, and it was written by some Civil War vet who couldn't read Sanskrit at all.

24 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-02 00:59 ID:PhXqEZEf

>>23
Maybe this was true in the 1970s, but I think there is more discussion of real Buddhism today than ever before.

25 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-04 13:33 ID:X8beFXi8

A member of my family is in the Soka Gakkai. For years I thought Buddhism was about repeating Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for hours everyday.

26 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-11 04:16 ID:ar9ZhrcS

>>23
On what basis do you make these claims? I haven't read anything written by either author, but I do have a book compiled by Suzuki on Zen.

27 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-27 08:45 ID:vGRSZxv0

Soka gakkai is just a CULT. They're the criminal religious group.
I heard that every common Japanese knows it.

28 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-27 09:03 ID:DI/8xMA1

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29 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-27 23:43 ID:1WuI+ylr

30 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-28 03:22 ID:Heaven

>>29
Yes.

31 Name: Anonymous : 2006-06-29 17:18 ID:GRdGHzRF

Shii ITT.

32 Name: shii : 2006-06-30 15:09 ID:Heaven

>>31
good eyes!

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