Questions tagged [reality]
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Have any Buddhist thinkers responded to the critique of the Brahma Sutras?
By far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy, which almost all Hindus nowadays belong to, is the Vedanta school, which is based on an ancient Hindu work called the Brahma Sutras or Vedanta ...
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How does one explain consistency within phenomena if the mind generates phenomena?
I'm having trouble framing this question right so please let me know if it needs clarification. I'll first describe the issues surrounding the question and then ask the question itself.
I've been ...
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If each person's mind creates "reality" then why do we need to eat?
My teacher has been talking about how each person's reality (including the body) is in fact an illusion generated by the mind in each moment. As an extension of this, she teaches that there are no "...
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A Buddhist Point of View of Virtual Reality
Buddhism teaches that what is real is experience; seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, thinking.
From this perspective, is virtual reality, (video games, Oculus Rift, and such) objectively ...
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Do Buddhists see reality as consensual or individual?
Do Buddhists see reality as consensual or individual? Are all persons' realities joined in a seamless whole, or is each person a window onto nothingness that can never be seen by anyone else? I am not ...
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Is the attainment of natural wisdom exclusive to Buddhism?
Regardless of the medium, or the path, do you know of any other traditions, or religions, or ways to attain wisdom? Wisdom as it's known in buddhist tradition: Seeing things as they are.
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Are Bodhisattvas real human beings we can encounter?
I was wondering if bodhisattvas are real life people we can encounter along our path. There seems to be literature on how these beings take vows, but I was wondering if it was common to encounter one ...
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Which of the following statements about Nibbana/Nirvana are true?
A) Nibbana is the destruction of the defilements.
B) Nibbana is merely the destruction of defilements.
C) Nibbana is an existing reality that is subjected to the mind totally free of defilements.
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Difficulties Maintaining Balance In Between Buddhism Teaching in Today’s Lives
I’m not sure if this is a good question to ask but would be great if anyone could shed some lights.
Not sure if it’s just me or anyone of you experiencing the same in one way or another?
In workplace ...
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what the buddha said about his own karma?
I have a strong believe in buddha but i am not much in karma logic. Had the buddha said anything of karma? If yes then what and if not then how? I am seeing some people getting back in a very amazing ...
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live as if it was your last day?
So there is a lot of teaching out there focuses on meditating on death. A lot of it talks about living life as if it was your last day, week, month... in that this way, you don't take life for granted ...
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Why the nature of things is such as it is?
Namaste. My question is
Why the nature of things is such as it is?
I think that the question cannot be answered, because it points outside the grasp of our mind, but I am interested in possible ...
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Do Paramittas need to be part of Theravada Buddhist training?
Do Paramittas need to be part of Theravada Buddhist training, much like keeping the 5 precepts or the noble eightfold path? Or are they just results/rewards we get for practicing the noble eightfold ...
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Is it possible to believe (incorrectly) that one is on the path?
Can one work one's way through the whole path as it is described in the Mahayana literature, and then realize: Even though you were being sincere, and the "right" experiences in the literature ...
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buddhism in real life
In the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta the Buddha said "desire is source of all suffering". So we cannot avoid suffering in life. It is a part of life.
However, he also said there was a path to the ...
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Do we have to believe that good people exists?
Is thinking that there are no good people / followers of five precepts in this world a wrong view? I read this in some where but I forgotten it.
It is hard to see that kind of people other than ...
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What is the difference between Yogacara Buddhism and Idealism?
I've often heard the Yogacara school of Buddhism being described as 'Mind Only'. To my untutored mind this seems reminiscent of the western philosophy of Idealism.
So there is a description of ...
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What's the first thing that arises, from which everything else arise?
Suppose you completely empty your mind of all thoughts. You go into complete emptiness of mind, where nothing is arising. Suppose that in that state you make a choice to arise a thought. If in that ...
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Did aliens come to meet Lord Buddha?
In lord Buddha's daily routine, divided into five parts as follows.
the morning session
the afternoon session
the first watch
the middle watch (10.00 P.M. TO 2.00 A.M.)
the last watch
So the 4th ...
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Seeing things for what they are
I'd like to ask a few questions, if I may. I am having some trouble seeing meanings or attributes being assigned to some things in Buddhism.
The yellow robe worn by monks is an emblem and reminder ...
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The desire of no desire [duplicate]
I have been thinking on the notion of desiring to have no desire. The idea of striving to not grasp, therefore grasping onto the idea in the first place and rendering it a contradiction and inevitably ...
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Does reality fight back when you want to meditate?
Whenever I want to meditate (down to Nirvana), it seems that the whole world wants to confront me to stop me.
Does reality fight back when you want to meditate?
Have other people encountered this?
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What Pali and English words are translations of the Norwegian words for ‘reality’?
The English word ‘reality’ (from the Latin res, "matter” or “thing") is very misleading and says the opposite of what “reality” actually is. The Latin 'res' is a very deceptive word, it makes you ...
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Does Buddhism allow for true randomness?
Is the law of dependent origination completely deterministic? If everything is dependent, there should be no true randomness. The current mainstream view of the physicists is that true randomness does ...
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What buddhism says about physical reality?
I had a discussion with one of my friend, who said, there's no such thing as physical reality, as per Lord Buddha. He quoted "The universe only exists inside this small body".
As per my ...
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The relation between Dhamma and reality itself
What is the orthodox position or the sutta's position about the knowledge of reality itself, beyond any intervention of subjective factors?
In science, when we find evidence that proves some ...
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Virtual things that emerge from interaction and exist as interaction
According to this comment:
"Form is like a lump of foam ... And consciousness like an illusion" (SN 22.95)
means something more subtle and interesting, much more deep than just
"empty of self". ...
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What’s the difference between yathābhūta and yathābhūtaṃ?
I’ve been reading about this term and have found it written in both ways. I don’t know if the difference is related to some kind of verb form.
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verse from MN 44
Background: What I perceived was disenchantment, which seemed to be the cause of duhkha (a psychological pain in this case).
In M 44 Dhammadinnā says:
"Now what, lady, lies on the other side of ...
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Teachings on truthfulness
In MN 61 the Buddha teaches his young son the importance of being truthful.
This is an amazing sutta! So wise, and yet so elegant and straightforward, that even a seven-year-old can learn something ...
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Buddhism and miracles
Do all Buddhists believe that miracles happen in the real world? Are the miracles described in scripture such as the Buddha being able to walk after birth literal or symbolic?
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Scared of growing old – living in the moment
For those who are scared of growing old and death, what would be a well thought out response be? My first thoughts on it would be, if you learn to meditate, you are going to enjoy your old age, and ...
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Fundamental building blocks of reality according to Buddhism?
Is there any mention of the fundamental building blocks of reality in Buddhism? Science tells us that we are made of atoms, which in turn are made of protons, neutrons and electrons, which in turn are ...
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Is samsara real?
If there is afterlife and sentient beings revolving around life after life in 3 different realms, and there is cosmic law that liberates all living beings and actually is eager to do so, then beings ...
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How should we understand the phrase "saccato thetato"?
Inspired from another question, I went looking for translations from the pali on suttacentral where pali experts have used the english word 'real.'
SN 22.85 as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
“But, ...
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The illusions and delusions of the world
How do we as Buddhists deal with a world that creates and embraces illusions and fabrications? For example, government is an idea and a fabrication, it is not a person or a thing, it just a group of ...
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Lower realms rising?
recently i read an article about a troubled young man who was brought to attention by one of his friends to a temple.
Here is a brief description....
A young guy suddenly started acting really weird ...
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How do you see this article fitting in with Buddhist principles?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/
Fascinating read, and I wondered what the wisdom of the crowd was on how closely they thought this notion fit with ...
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16 Worldview Questions For Buddhists
Good evening, everyone! I'm curious about the Buddhist worldview and would like answers to these sixteen worldview questions. I rely heavily on James W. Sire's worldview questions from his book The ...
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Is it not conceit when you compare yourself to other people?
Are we not thinking of ourselves as either you're better than they are, or equal to them, or worse that they are?
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Was the Buddha against violence in all situations?
Is a strictly pacifist Buddhism exactly correct or are there certain situations were violence or war might be appropriate according to the Buddha's teaching?
What did the Buddha say about the ...
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Does reality exist?
Does reality exist? Carlo Rovelli (a famous theoretical physicist) doesn't think so and he cites Nagarjuna as believing the same:
Rovelli has a different idea. He says reality doesn’t exist. The
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Ultimate Reality
Conditioned reality, the psycho-physical interdependence, only exist
because we experience it. This is how I interpreted Yuttadhammo's
videos on Ultimate Reality. Is this a correct interpretation ...
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There is no benefit and there is no intrinsic positive nature in a pleasant sensation
I am a beginner and I stumbled upon the sentence in a video given by a monk.
There is no benefit and there is no intrinsic positive nature in a
pleasant sensation
I will give you the context
We ...
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What would Buddhists say about 'pantheism'
I take 'pantheism' to be the belief that all our talk about God can resolve into "the world", while retaining the divine status of "God", perhaps because our words about God retain their structure.
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Is the whole of reality what is being denied by some Buddhists?
Is the whole of reality what is being denied by some Buddhists?
So, for as long as the sensation of pleasure or an atom or visual consciousness or apple is thought to belong to everything that exists,...
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Is the word 'real' synonymous with 'exists' in Buddhist doctrine?
Are these two words synonymous? Is everything that exists, real? Is everything real, an existent? What is a proper relationship between the words "real" and "exists" in the context ...
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The Impact of Violence on Our Concentration
Our reality is quite violent.
Observing the violence of others causes mental conflict, And it will ruin your state of mind during meditation.
What should be the reaction of a person to violence?
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Paramatha and samatha meditation
Can ultimate paramatha reality ever be observed or realized with only samatha concentration meditation on a concept?
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Religious experiences in Buddhism
What would be considered a religious experience in Buddhism in the same way,for example, Moses' experience with the burning bush of God? Would it be the Buddha's enlightenment itself or a bodhisattva'...
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