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Originally Posted by tantric
Dude, are you Nichiren or something? WTF?
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I'm talking about some things related to the
Parampara, or Buddhist lineages. You don't understand the passages you're quoting are suitable only once you're stablished in the path, and no one is really stablished in the path without receiving the empowered means.
You're talking and quoting without understanding.
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Originally Posted by tantric
Well, one Siddhartha Gautama did it all by his lonesome. The idea of him being just another person is paramount in understanding Buddhism. He did it, so can you
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Gautama was an
avâtara. Naturally, a "divine-human being" implies a bunch of paradoxes, and we're used to the simplification and humanization of all spiritual figures.
Just another example: Muhammad in Islam is also regarded as just another person, but inside the spiritual path, deeper than faith, things aren't so simple. The same, again, is applicable to Buddhism.
An
avâtara can start a spiritual line without he being worshipped as a God nor as any other thing. Buddha did that. Others did the same, too.
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Originally Posted by tantric
Also, consider this, from Thich Nhat Hanh
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All that you're quoting is extremely basic but correct, however I can't say the same about your understanding of it. The point is
once you're really stablished in the path, with the working means, you must follow the teachings.
Just don't quote fragments of them in wrong contexts. That turns them into sources of ignorance. Also, you can apply such lines to yourself for psychological results. The problem is such elemental lines are easily misunderstood, so you can hurt yourself trying to play with them.
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Originally Posted by tantric
I have no idea what that means. Or, rather, it could mean so many things I don't understand what you are trying to say.
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I don't believe that.
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Originally Posted by tantric
As far as I can tell, you have received some kind of pat on the head by a grand high lama somewhere, and you think that this means that you have perfect understanding that can be obtained no other way. That's so wrong it's actually creepy. Please be so kind as to send me your pic, so that should I see you walking down the road toward me, I can hit you with a stick.
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Originally Posted by demonsbane
people used to despise all kind of authority rages hearing things like these
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You're completely wrong about me, too. One could say you're trying to turn this into personal animosity, but I don't play that game.
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Originally Posted by tantric
[note to mods, this is a Buddhist koan in joke, not a threat of violence]
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You are just disguising your confrontational attitude.
Returning to the interests of the OP, I'm waiting for these lenses you were speaking in an earlier post. Now I'm not informative but curious.