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XBS - I want anyone interested in Buddhism, or indeed who classes themselves a buddhist, to join this little association so we can discuss / hang out / drink carrot juice (nooo!) etc. |
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I have a question for the X.B.S. Can Buddhums eat vegetabrles or is that bad? |
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Haha, there is a funny story - someone said to a schoraly vegetarian "But vegetables have feelings too", to which this wit replied, "Yes, but they don't scream as loudly." |
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* scholarly. |
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carrot juice is actually pretty good. |
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there's only 1 thing worse than being a member of the xbs, and that is not being a member of the xbs ahahahaaa |
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the first rule of x.b.s is: 'no one shall talk about x.b.s' the second rule of x.b.s is: 'no one about x.b.s' the second rule of x.b.s is: 'no smoking' |
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can we listen to gagnsta raps? |
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No. You can only do that in the Xltronic Hindu Society |
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Ok, cool. Hindu's kinda cooler anyway with their 13,000 golden monkey gods and whatnot. |
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XCL- Xltronic Catholic Legion, Praise Him XE- Xltronic Evangelicals, Halleluyah! XW- Xltronic Witnesses, Knock! Knock! |
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I luv golden monkeys. |
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u luv my initials. |
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I'm buddhist, somewhat. |
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And even then, only Punjabi MC. |
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I identify with that..... not committed enough to call myself a Buddhist, but certainly interested........... I did a 10 day vipassana course earlier this year, which is the biggest step I've taken along the path. |
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I just read allot of books on it. Like zen buddhism compared to psychoanalysis. or the way of zen, etc.. Heh, I even had a collection of small buddha statues and waterfall fountains. |
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I'm an indology student. Hit me! |
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"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" That is all I can add to the discussion. |
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what does it matter, we're all going to die one day anyway |
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Yeah, I got the buddha statue thing going on............. my friends keep giving them to me cause they know i'm interested in buddhism.......... |
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read "siddaarhta" by herman hess and you'll forget all this silliness |
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read it............ it didn't help :) |
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Im not a buddhist, im a constructivist....A RADICAL constructivist!! |
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your a contradiction, that's what you are. |
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I'm know buddhist, but I loved the Spaced reference! |
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Know = not, y'know. |
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I'm verry farr frrom being a Buddhist. |
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I am a lamp.. of sorts... |
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it feels right. |
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i think buddhism is ok. i think im more into zen-buddhism as it's more vague and has less rules wiki exerpt says: Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and 'seeing deeply into the nature of things' by direct experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen |
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i think my awareness is not too good though. but it was great reading in combination with the sword fighting i did |
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ive been visiting a dhamma hall held by theravadin buddhist monks |
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zen stories: Someone in New York told me a story. When he was a young boy, maybe in the sixth grade, he changed to a new school. He was seated at a table with two girls. He said one was very, very pretty, and he felt attracted to her, and the other was not so pretty. But he liked both of them, and the school was having a dance; and this was still the time in history when boys asked girls to dances, and girls didn't ask boys. He asked the less pretty girl to the dance. When he told me this story, he put it in the context of his own decision to not go after what he really wanted. But I see it as something more complex than that. He had some compassion for the feelings of the less pretty girl, and felt he would have hurt her feelings and disappointed her if he asked the other one to the dance. And so I think in our phenomenal existence, we are always gaining something and losing something, and that's a very important point for us to bear in mind. http://www.kwanumzen.com/primarypoint/v11n1-1994-spring-zmw k-transmissionspeech.html |
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Ahhhh was that partridge? Brilliant I'm sommmeeewhat Buddhist. I believe and practise a fair few of their philosophies however I don't chant to the Buddha or believe in reincarnation, which are fundamental properties of being Buddhist.. I have been to a lot of Buddhist classes, the guy who ran them was a Welsh monk. He was great. Always gave examples, using noddy and "creeeaaam buns". The monks in Thailand are rubbbish. :D They touch women, have mobiles, smoke.. etc etc. It's mad! |
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When Tired A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." Moving Mind Two men were arguing about a flag flapping in the wind. "It's the wind that is really moving," stated the first one. "No, it is the flag that is moving," contended the second. A Zen master, who happened to be walking by, overheard the debate and interrupted them. "Neither the flag nor the wind is moving," he said, "It is MIND that moves." http://goto.bilkent.edu.tr/gunes/ZEN/zenstories.htm |
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i'm looking for this story bliefly told in the afformentioned book it's basically this: the new headmonk is chosen from all the monks in the monastry because he shows his understanding of zen by handing the old headmonk a flower |
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somewhere in the warm depths of my cold and rocky heart I am definitely a Buddhist. everyone is...no? |
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maybe, maybe people are only what they say they are though |
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Is Kung Fu mandatory within the XBS? |
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oh, we are, we are :) we are all buddhists. buying Gucci perfumes, hahahahaha :D |
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40 posts is not a lot of kung fu :) |
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Yes, it is, especially if your hermitage is under threat of marauding heathens. |
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Buddhists are atheists btw. |
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buddhism is certainly non-theistic, but of course theres more to it than atheism would suggest |
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Don't Buddhists believe in Nirvana? Well Nirvana is Nil. Unless Nil is more than God, which is suppose to be All, then Buddhists don't believe in something "more" than God. It's even infinitely less. |
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beliefs are held regarding reincarnation and the progression toward an end to rebirth (and a state of nirvana). these philosophies are based on the realisation of the mind, which is unlike a void. buddhist philosophies are unlike theistic beliefs, which insist on the presence of a deity. |
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so yes it is true that buddhists dont believe in something 'more' than a deity, even if you were to attempt to measure, because they dont believe in the existence of a deity. |
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but; why'd you want to put an end to the cycle of rebirth? |
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from what ive been taught, that is attained when one reaches enlightenment. when the mind becomes free from all earthly trappings it is free to move on to the final state of nirvana. and end to the cycle of rebirth is not so much something to be desired, as it is a natural progression according to buddhist teaching. |
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