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My thread has reached Enlightenment before me? FUCKING BITCH. At least it's stayed to help...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
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Hm, was thinking of this cat
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That dude's feet look funny.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
@Aon: No need to thank me!
Wait, if this thread has moved on, does this mean we're making contact with some outer plane by posting in it?
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He was secretly Chinese. And female. Footbinding, see
edited 17th Mar '11 5:14:37 PM by Tzetze
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IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Aondeug, you swear a lot for a Buddhist. (Except I don't think Buddhism has any specific rules against swearing, right?)
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So in an article Myrmidon linked elsewhere, a «commonly cited Buddhist truism» was mentioned, that you should question everything and such. Never heard of it before. Is that a real thing?
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We have a "Refrain from false speech" rule. So...things like lying and such. Sometimes this rule is expanded to "Refrain from false speech and harmful speech" which could include swearing if you thought it was harmful. Those are just the Five Precepts of Sila. The monks have an additional set of rules on top of those. So many in fact that an entire section of our amazingly huge canonical texts (a full set is like 57 books the size of The Bible) are devoted solely to cataloging said rules.
edited 24th Mar '11 9:31:41 AM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Wow, I knew Buddhists had rules regarding speech, but I never knew it was that long. Is it true that some Buddhist sects consider wasted/unnecessary words to be a sin?
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Oh the monk rules aren't all about speech. Some of them likely are I am sure. They have other things regarding when they can eat and what they can eat and what they can wear and when they can wear it and so on.
Buddhism lacks a concept of sin in the Abrahamic sense. We instead have our cause and effect theory of Kamma. Our ethics are consequential and not bound to any deity. It is not bad because a deity says it is bad. It is bad because it hurts things and that alone.
edited 24th Mar '11 12:49:55 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Hm, that's still pretty extensive. I guess it shouldn't surprise me though, a lot of religions have plenty of stipulations.
I realize that, I just didn't have any other word for it. That's actually one of the reasons Buddhism appeals to me so much, its ideas on morality seem very logical to me.
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I just refer to them as negative actions. They are actions that build up negative Kamma so it fits. I think anyway.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
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The Buddha asks that Buddhists do not believe him simply because he's the Buddha, or because these practices have been followed for generations. Instead, one must question one's own experiences and examine the consequences of their beliefs.
Edit: ^My view is the same as Aon's.
edited 24th Mar '11 5:32:00 PM by Yuanchosaan
"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj
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I really like that about Buddha...He was all "Don't follow me just because you think I'm awesome. Learn for yourselves and look at your life and then follow me because of what you've learned. You too can be awesome like me,".
edited 24th Mar '11 6:18:26 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
So, Buddha's like some kind of spiritual pitchman? If so, he's just about sold me.
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You have to work for it though! WORK HARD.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
Okay! -spirit pushups- Oh yeah, I'm feeling the metaphysical burn!
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SPREAD THAT LOVING KINDNESS LIKE A SONNUVABITCH.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
OH YEAH I'M TOTALLY WORKIN' IT! -picks up random hitch hiker in my car, because I totally actually did that today- KINDNESS TO THE MAX, YA?!
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FUCK YEAH!! NAMU AMIDA BUTSU!!
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
-looks up namu amida butsu- AW HELL YEAH! Buddhism has made me so patient that I let a clearly drunk individual operate my motor vehicle today, BECAUSE I JUST DON'T GIVE A F&%K!
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YEAH MAN.
Now...less screaming time...
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
...Yes, good plan. I doubt I could handle anymore forced kammagasming anyway. Say, would you consider letting a drunk person drive my car to be a positive or a negative action? I mean, it was kind of thoughtless of me since she might have hit somebody, but not caring about material possessions is supposed to be a good thing, right?
It could have left Samsara, but decided that it still had people to help.
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