Check out what Neo-Buddhists, Dalits and OBCs feel about interfaith marriages (with Muslims). You are making typical myopic points about H-Nationalism and Brahmanism – Which are made because the opponents of Hindutva cant digest the fact that its not what they hope it would be. Be...
If the gangrene hypothesis were really true, practicing Buddhists and other serious meditators would all be amputees. Numbness in the legs during long periods of sitting is pretty normal. So relax. Follow these eight simple steps to do the lotus posture without getting numb, painful legs. ...
“Here, there are Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and Muslims. We pray,” Papa said, “to God and Allah and Jesus and Mohammed. The meaning of life is to love all. The purpose of life is to serve all.” It was a simple prayer, reminding me that life need not be complicated unless ...
it’s the largest stupa in all of Asia, a UNESCO site and a popular pilgrimmage spot where Tibetan Buddhists in Kathmandu come to worship. Boudhanath is among the largest in the world and serves as a center of pilgrimage for Nepalese and...
Those are inner things. They are not outer things. You listed the things you listed because you thought they would give you what you really want. And so wisdom, yoga, spirituality, is about going deeper. Buddhists talk about working at the root. ...
How about as slow as can be. Think of it as walking meditation, what Zen Buddhists call Kinhin. Take a step, breathe, look. Study the bark on a tree. Examine something in a store window. Explore the cracks in the sidewalk, or the ants crawling along the pavement. Allow yourself to ...
” Buddhists are to refrain from the destruction of life, orsamsara – the cycle of birth and death.You might have an image in your mind of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire. The juxtaposition of self-immolation and the doctrine against the destruction of life then seems contradictory...
We don’t appreciate the living present because our “monkey minds,” as Buddhists call them, vault from thought to thought like monkeys swinging from tree to tree. Most of us don’t undertake our thoughts in awareness. Rather, our thoughts control us. “Ordinary thoughts course through our ...
Yoga mastershave spent lifetimes seeking it. Buddhistsspend hundreds of hours trying to attain it. Addicts and drug users seek short-term artificial bursts of it (which ultimately destroys the pure, true form of happiness). So, we should be happy all the time,right?
As far as I am concerned,compared with those attached to the enjoyment of objects, or to the other extreme,namely,extreme austerities ,which refers to the incomplete practices of non-Buddhists, III The Thirteen Austerities(or Dhuta practice) is considered a moderate method to carry out what ...