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Hypocrisy of Buddhism
Buddhist master, Ajahn Brahm, answered a similar question as follows in an interview with Rachael Kohn:
Rachael Kohn: I know that your message is often about happiness, and how the point of life......
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Hypocrisy of Buddhism
Buddhist not trying to accumulate money/power and use it to help people and change world, is hypocritical?
Hypocrisy is defined as:
1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious ...
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How would Buddhist monks organize countries and the world?
We do not have to wonder about the answer to the question of "How would Buddhist monks organize countries, world?" We have plenty of historical examples of just this. There is no need to speculate. In ...
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Where does utilitarianism sit with Buddhism and vice versa?
(Theravada) Buddhism is absolutely utilitarian... that's a pun, see, it's both absolute and utilitarian. I guess the more accurate contrast is moral absolutism and consequentialism (of which ...
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How do you talk to someone whose loved one is dying?
Since I am old, this happens with some frequency. A single wordless look with metta, eye-to-eye, is all that is needed. If a hug would be welcomed (and only if it would be welcomed), then it can be ...
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Why are so many Buddhists in the west hostile to academic analyses of the religion?
You have strayed from the direct path free from [reified concept of] intrinsic being, and wandered down the wrong path of strict rationalism. And as you apply yourself to the labors of your own ...
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Hypocrisy of Buddhism
This is a very complex question. You start by positing an "ideal Buddhist", which cannot really exist by virtue of all Buddhists generally being human, thus flawed.
You are asking about how a ...
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How and when did the name "Buddhism" appear?
How and when did the name "Buddhism" appear?
I'm not an expert, but here's what I found this evening: the article SCHOPENHAUER AND BUDDHISM by Peter Abelson says,
When the tenets of Buddhism ...
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Why are so many Buddhists in the west hostile to academic analyses of the religion?
Perhaps this question was inspired by my answer to another where I disparaged some western philosophical notions applied to Buddha Dharma. That was not helpful nor was it meaningful. I’m trying to ...
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Can Buddhism be harmful?
But I wondered can any buddhist theory or practice can ever be harmful to a human?
Many people pratice certain techniques as Buddhist pratice. When you come across a pratice that someone says is a ...
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When are you a Buddhist?
I live in a country where most people are either atheist or christian. Estimates are that between 0.4 and 1% of all people here call themselves a Buddhist.
It's been my experience that there isn't a ...
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How do you talk to someone whose loved one is dying?
It depends on the beliefs and ideas of the person that you have the intention to help. If the person belongs to a community that absolutely have fundamentalist beliefs that is not aligned with the ...
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Are monastics allowed to wear lay disciple's clothing?
There's some discussion of that here.
Some answers quote references, which point out that the Buddha allowed footwear in the wilderness and take that as permission to adapt to the terrain.
One says ...
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What is Hardcore (Pragmatic) Dharma?
Having read his book, and with honesty having also reaped great benefits from it, I mainly associate hardcore Dharma with the words of Daniel M. Ingram (here a link to his personal website).
His way ...
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How and when did the name "Buddhism" appear?
I don't think I understand your question. It's simply an '-ism' made from what should be referred to as "Buddhadhamma". All schools agree that Buddha showed a way to nibbana which anybody can follow ...
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Hypocrisy of Buddhism
Paraphrasing Einstein, you can't solve a problem with the same paradigm that creates it. Just to put it in the context, you can't solve greed using wealth, and you can't solve desire using power. You ...
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Buddha as "lord" and Buddha as "choosing" his followers
How common is the term "lord" for Buddha?
People use it about 150 times in posts on this site.
Would the followers of any of the Buddhist traditions ask the Buddha, who gave the fire sermon, to ...
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Buddha as "lord" and Buddha as "choosing" his followers
"Lord Buddha" is used all the time ". Translations from Pali would often use language from the Bible, at least in earlier translations.
Sounds like appreciation to Lord Buddha for plucking one out of ...
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Where do westerners get their "Buddhist" names?
The same is true for Mahayana traditions (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_name) allthough exceptions are possible.
So for example the German Mr. Nölke, since many years abbot Muhô in Antaiji, ...
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What is Hardcore (Pragmatic) Dharma?
I think that it would be more accurate to say not a "conservative backlash" but rather a "progressive backlash" against watered down pop-buddhism.
The simple definition of "hardcore dharma" to my ...
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How do you talk to someone whose loved one is dying?
It would be arrogant to even imagine that I can give one piece of advice that would be applicable to all situations. But I guess I can present one idea I got out of my own mistakes in trying to help, ...
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Is there a scientific consensus on meditation?
If you are still interested, you can check this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/9dx45g/can_we_please_have_a_pinned_thread_with_all_the/e5qcic6/
It's a comment with about 15 benefits of ...
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Why are so many Buddhists in the west hostile to academic analyses of the religion?
This answer (and question) might be a little off-topic -- "too subjective" and "a polling question".
I don't think I'm hostile to academic analyses -- I am a bit indifferent to ...
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The Buddha was male, so was he an "alpha male"?
Please see the sutta quote below of AN 7.51.
The Buddha was neither alpha male, beta male, alpha female, beta female, androgynous, dominant or submissive (from a gender-identity perspective).
Rather, ...
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