chan and wck

[Savi]

Thank you for the discussion. I have learned much more about you.

[canglong]

The answers you seek Hendrik are in the wck itself but if you look for those answers inside books, online forums or white crane you will only be left with more questions.

[kj]

These debates on egolessness slay me.

Regards,
- kj

[Rolling_Hand]

<<Chan teaching is a teaching. A method of persuing buddha nature.
Thus, it can be describe precise and concise what is Chan teaching.>>HS

--What is Ch'an teaching? Where is Ch'an? Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distance.--RH

<<If the fist continous insist on its Time, Space, and energy. then it always is a fish.>>HS

--A fist has five fingers, and a fish has one tail. Hendrik, when will you drop a habit that has kept you from reaching your potential?--RH

[PaulH]

Well, the fireworks have been most illuminating and fun! I thank this forum to give me a chance to reach out and crush some self. Ha! Ha!

[reneritchie]

No you're not!

Am too!

Yes he is!

You're not either!

Yo mama!

Nanynany...

[Savi]

You know KJ, RH, and PaulH, I really do try and make friends with everyone and after things have been said and done you do make me smile! Laugh alittle bit too, I might add.

Roger, go and visit www.hfy108.com there are many friends awaiting your presence! You truly are welcome there, I hope to see you there. Everyone else too of course! There are private as well as public forums there.

Peace everyone...

[burnsypoo]

Huen Lop?

[Geezer]

Hendrik, aren't there different types of Buddhist teachings????

Sheldon

[kj]

Originally posted by Savi
You know KJ, RH, and PaulH, I really do try and make friends with everyone and after things have been said and done you do make me smile! Laugh alittle bit too, I might add.

Laughter is good medicine.

Regards,
- kj

[reneritchie]

LMAO@BP

[Savi]

Originally posted by PaulH
Hi Savi,

I'm only human. Like a "karmic" sailboat driven by strong gusts of passion but steered firmly by reason, I boldly chart the universe. The world is a stage and I just act my role.

Regards,

You're an OK dude Paul. Keep on sailing...

[Geezer]

Tibetan Buddhism:
A mixture of Buddhism, Tantrism and the ancient Bon religion of Tibet. They have a vast collection of scriptures (tantras), which describe powerful rituals. Their teachers (Lamas) are said to be reincarnations of holy teachers who lived in earlier times.

The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists is the Dalai Lama who is believed to be the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara.

Zen Buddhism:
Developed from CH’an a school of Chinese Buddhism formed in the Seventh century from a blend of Taoism (Chinese philosophy outlined in the TaoTeChing). It aims is to achieve harmony with all that is by pursuing inaction and effortless) and Mahayana teachings. The school stressed experience rather than learning. One of the heroes of Zen is the fierce – looking Indian monk Boddhidharma who brought Buddhism to China.

Absolute faith is placed in a person’s own inner being. Zen came to Japan in the 13th century five centuries after the orthodox forms of Buddhism. It appealed because of its emphasis on the uselessness of words and the insistence of action without thought.

Zen teaches the possibility of enlightenment in the here and now, unlike the tendency that have developed in other strands of Buddhism as far off goals. It teaches that enlightenment is a spontaneous event, totally independent of concepts, techniques or rituals. Zen Monks are based on doing things, learning through experience.

Pure Land Buddhism:
Buddhist sect founded by a Chinese monk called Hui Yuan (AD 334 –416). It focuses on one particular scripture which tells of a living Buddha who inhabits another world system, a far off place known as the Pure Land. The Buddha is Amitabha and his followers believe that through faith they will be transported there after death.

Nichiren Buddhism:
A Japanese Buddhist reformer whose teachings are based on the Mahayana Sutra (scripture) known as the Lotus Sutra which contained the ultimate truth and that it could be compressed into a sacred formula NAMO MYOHO RENGE KYO (homage to the Lotus of the wonderful law).

The central practice of Nichiren Buddhism is reciting the mantra of the namo myoho rengye kyo. Nichiren denounced all other forms of Buddhism and when the Mongols threatened Japan preached a fiery nationalism, urging the nation to convert to true Buddhism.

http://www.racialjustice.org.uk/Type...20Buddhism.htm

Sheldon

[PaulH]

Savi,

Best wishes to you as well. It has been good knowing you.

[John Weiland]

Originally posted by Phenix
Ok ready to go back to the retreat....

Savi, get that book from Dilgo Rimpoche. It will help you and your friends...

OK, Hendrik,

Go back into the retreat, but stay out of Bhutan.

Machine language analogies? That's a reach for a metaphor. But I guess we are on a machine dependent medium.

Do infants know a self? If so, do they know "other?"

I am dreaming about dreaming, but then some of us have to work, I guess. Not me, of course, but some.