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What is the Buddhist view in Socratic questioning?
This meta-topic mentioned the Pañha Sutta, which includes,
There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly ...
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Boundaries and Buddhism
The Pali Canon position (e.g. Sedaka Sutta) is that :
[Correctly] Looking after oneself, one [implicitly] looks after others.
[Correctly] Looking after others, one [implicitly] looks after ...
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Boundaries and Buddhism
In Buddhism, no action is to be performed that harms oneself. Refer to MN 61:
The Dhammapada says:
Let one not neglect one's own welfare for the sake of another, however great. Clearly ...
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What is the Buddhist view in Socratic questioning?
Yes, this is pretty much the way Buddha has led all his conversations with individual students when he was not preaching to groups. In Pali Canon there are many examples of dialogs following same ...
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Processing of Emotions
Correct, emotions are complex psychosomatic events, of which vedana is but a small component.
For the purposes of liberation, Buddhism differentiates between emotions in their affecting or ...
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What allows to make a choice
When a person has a choice between Path A or B, on what basis would that person make that decision, for it to be the right one? For that one has to have a very good knowledge of the True Dhamma. How ...
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Awakened Great Zen Master Seung Sahn - is it possible he lost the state of Nibbana?
Perhaps different buddhist traditions lead to different state of nibbana
Even within one tradition there are different stages or degrees of enlightenment -- see for example Four stages of ...
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Modern Narcissism and Buddhism
There's a passage from the daodejing that I always find appropriate on questions like this. It goes, roughly:
When one man hears of the dao, he sets out to embrace it.
When another hears of the dao, ...
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If the self is scientifically measured, what is the Buddhist view on this?
We are fortunate to live in a time where science had made impressive progress and has confirmed many aspects of the Buddha’s world view, but to think and believe that the only way to confirm what the ...
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Is there a kind of "pop Buddhism"?
I don't know what "pop Buddhism" means exactly but I guess yes -- I suppose I could assign one or more of the following definitions to the phrase.
"Pop Buddhism" is:
Any reference to Buddhism that ...
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Which Buddhists denominations agree with the difference between pain and suffering as in many DBT texts? Which disagree?
Generally speaking, "Buddhism is like Christianity" - in the sense that it has many different schools and sects that have their own practices and disagree on interpretations.
However, when it comes ...
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What allows to make a choice
What is it that allows to make choices?
It's a complex combination of various variables, nature vs. nurture, old habit energy, one's own effort and energy, etc. That's why the 4-pronged approach of ...
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What is the general Buddhist consensus on catharsis?
In my opinion, catharsis is a hindrance (non-meditaion) therefore not really related to Buddhism. Catharsis is a product of a deficiency in morality & self-control (as explained in AN 10.61). In ...
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Boundaries and Buddhism
In the essay "Metta Means Goodwill", Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote, that while we should have loving kindness and compassion, it is important that beings are able to look after themselves, and that is in ...
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How buddhists see/deal with Gaslighting?
Here's an answer without claiming it's extraordinarily Buddhist.
Buddhism might recommend you be resistant to (or perhaps transparent to) blame and censure.
From two traditions:
Lokavipatti Sutta (...
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Is the goal of mindfulness to develop ultimate dissociation?
In Iti 109 (quoted below), the Buddha indeed taught man to swim against his nature to become free from suffering. Renunciation (nekkhamma - subject to the middle way) is against the flow i.e. it's not ...
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Is the goal of mindfulness to develop ultimate dissociation?
Sridhar, unfortunately there are Buddhists who seek a dissociative state. It's unfortunate that this happens often enough though, and some teachers do teach it.
As a meditation teacher myself, I don't ...
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Is the goal of mindfulness to develop ultimate dissociation?
mindfulness meditation is primarily about detachment/ dissociation from life
Mindfulness one should observe in a detached manner without attachment to the pleasant or aversion to the unpleasant, also ...
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How to deal with nagging people?
To me it doesn't sound polite or kind to "deal with" family like you "deal with" a nuisance or a chore.
Your description of the problem sounds "conceited" as described ...
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Are Therevada's cosmology and the Mahanaya's sutras physically impossible?
There are two ways in which physics could disallow a Buddhist form of cosmology:
A law of nature which creates measurable predictions in our universe (the human realm of existence) is discovered, and ...
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Are Therevada's cosmology and the Mahanaya's sutras physically impossible?
Buddhism is a definite, and it is the same Dhamma preached by all Buddhas. Popular science is always changing with new theory replacing old ones. But having said this some similar theories have ...
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What allows to make a choice
What is it that allows to make choices?
Wisdom and awareness helps you make the choice. Being aware you can exercise restraint when your habitual or reflexive response is suffering and this is not ...
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Life With Death
In Buddhism, 'wisdom' refers to understanding suffering. To quote:
And what is the faculty of discernment (wisdom)? There is the case where a monk, a disciple of the noble ones, is discerning, ...
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What allows to make a choice
Human consciousness (& wisdom) allows choice, which is what distinguishes the 'human' from the 'animal'. The 'animal' is instinctual programmed behaviour & reactions where as the 'human' ...
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Accepting what is
Suchness has a different flavor from helplessness you describe. It's more like you always live afresh, as if you were a new person, a new child - every time. It's not that you accept things as ...
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How would a Buddhist advise on this subset of problems of motivation?
From the article "Two Exercises for Turning Intention into Motivation" by Thupten Jinpa on Buddhist site tricycle.org, we see some useful tips on how to motivate yourself to do a task that you set ...
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