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| Meditation progress? | 7/7/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I have been meditating for approximately seven months now. What kind of progress would you say that ...
A: Just continue with your present "routine", but don't do it with any expectation. Just be natural, ...
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| buddha hands | 7/6/2009 | Fahfuen2007 |
Q: hi can you tell me what a buddha holds in there hands its shaped like an egg or bowl its circle with ...
A: It is a rice bowl that all monks use in the morning for food requesting. Buddhists believe that ...
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| Scriptures | 7/6/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: What has been the Buddhist approach in the last 150 years towards the actual experience of reality ...
A: > What has been the Buddhist approach in > the last 150 years towards the actual > experience of ...
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| Scriptures | 7/6/2009 | John Willemsens aka Advayavadananda |
Q: What has been the Buddhist approach in the last 150 years towards the actual experience of reality ...
A: Non-dual Advayavada Buddhism is based on our growing philosophical and scientific knowledge of ...
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| Scriptures | 7/6/2009 | Stuart Resnick |
Q: What has been the Buddhist approach in the last 150 years towards the actual experience of reality ...
A: The Buddhist tradition points to the actual experience of reality. It's something that you can ...
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| Meditation progress? | 7/5/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I have been meditating for approximately seven months now. What kind of progress would you say that ...
A: There is no "standard" progress towards meditation. Different people will have different ...
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| Beings from other dimentions | 7/3/2009 | Laurie McLauglin |
Q: I was initiated into Buddhism about 5 years ago. Call me restless but I explored outside the ...
A: I am glad you are returning to pursuing only one major religion as I believe that will help you ...
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| Commitment, Suffering by choice, alcoholism | 7/2/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: Greetings. I am 50 years old, and have been a practicing Buddhist with a waning waxing practice for ...
A: "What would the Buddha say to me if we could sit and have a nice chat?" I wouldn't know what the ...
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| book reccomendations, and a question about a particular book | 6/29/2009 | Laurie McLauglin |
Q: I have 2 questions: 1) Do you have any book recommendations for people who are new to Buddhism and ...
A: Kate. I am very glad you are looking at Buddhism as a spiritual path. I have been practicing ...
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| ignorance in Tibetan script | 6/29/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: i want to know how ignorance translates to Tibetan script. Thank you in advance for your help.
A: The Tibetan, transcribed into latin script according to the Wylie system, is this: ma.rig.pa. If ...
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| Mindfulness? | 6/29/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I have a question about mindfulness. I do breath meditation twice a day, each time for about 20-30 ...
A: Mindfulness, as all Zen practices do, is trying to create a pseudo living in the moment. It is ...
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| The Five Precepts | 6/29/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I refer to the very first one, ie to abstain from killing. I notice that some Buddhists practice ...
A: Yes you are right, this topic will lead to long argument. I also agree with your reasoning. If ...
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| buddha meditation tricks | 6/29/2009 | John Willemsens aka Advayavadananda |
Q: sir, i am not able to concentrate while studying my mind every time gets distracted as a result my ...
A: Don't fight it. Just look 'unthinkingly' at your thought (or noise, interruption, etc.) for a while ...
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| Buddhism and spiritualism | 6/28/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: After spending several months researching Buddhism in an effort to find the religion associated ...
A: Generally speaking Buddhists believe that everything is impermanent, and when someone dies the winds ...
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| Buddhist Romance | 6/27/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: Do buddhist kiss as a feature of their romance? How do they show their affection for the other sex?
A: This is a purely social matter on which Buddhism has nothing to say. Monks and nuns, of course, ...
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| Mindfulness? | 6/26/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I have a question about mindfulness. I do breath meditation twice a day, each time for about 20-30 ...
A: When you are being mindful during activity there is an object of your mindfulness, that being what ...
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| can dharma help me.. i am depressed, lonely and have gone astray | 6/25/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: Sir : After my divorce around 6 years back, I was in deep depression and terrible stress. Due to ...
A: You have a Western concept of dharma and this is very understandable. Dharma may mean truth or ...
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| Practice That LeadsTowards Enlightenment | 6/25/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: How are you? I have some questions below that I hope you can help to shed some light on, 1. What is ...
A: Considering the unimaginably and incalculably long time span of one's existence, is it possible that ...
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| Meditation and Enlightenment | 6/24/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: How are you? I have some questions below that I hope you can help to shed some light on, 1. What is ...
A: Welcome back after such a long absence. First I must confess that I am not much of a meditator ...
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| World Religion Class | 6/20/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: . How are young children introduced to the religion of Buddhism? 2. Are children/people baptized ...
A: How are young children introduced to the religion of Buddhism? There is no rigid or stereotyped ...
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| the Excel date formula thing | 6/20/2009 | Stuart Resnick |
Q: re q: "hi - wonder if you can help me, I'm having such a time with date formulas that I want to put ...
A: Select cell(s). For this example, we'll say that the upper-left corner of the range selected is cell ...
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| Calming the emotions? | 6/19/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I have a question on meditation. It seems to me that the point of Samatha meditation is to quiet ...
A: Welcome back; again! When you have cultivated a calmed mind, every emotion falls into place. You ...
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| Buddhism and Love | 6/19/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I am fairly new to Buddhism in terms of practice and I have been running into some trouble in ...
A: As you cannot nourish another by your own eating and drinking you cannot spiritually nourish them ...
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| significance of being a gay | 6/19/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I am a struggling gay who is trying to reconcile with this world and my unwillingness to accept ...
A: Don't worry too much; for you are not alone. There are millions who are like you. Can we say that ...
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| Meditation help? | 6/18/2009 | Stuart Resnick |
Q: I have come across a problem in my meditation, and I was wondering if you would have any advice. ...
A: What you describe is "get something" meditation. When you meditate, you're holding ideas about ...
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| lesser known Tao writings | 6/17/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I know the Tao Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu are the most important Tao writings but I am wondering ...
A: Yes, there is value in reading these authors/writings but it is really contingent on what you bring ...
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| monks and meditation | 6/16/2009 | Laurie McLauglin |
Q: how do I answer an elderly man, who asks "why do monks do nothing but meditate yet expect the people ...
A: Lee. Perhaps the question your elderly friend should ask is not why should they eat when all they ...
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| transmigration of the soul | 6/15/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: i have a question regaring tibetan buddhism. I have read that the tranmisgration of the soul from a ...
A: The "49 days" is notional rather than literal. It is used to time the funeral rites, especially for ...
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| questions about Buddhism | 6/15/2009 | Laurie McLauglin |
Q: Good afternoon. I'm writing a school paper about Buddhism and have a few questions. 1. What is ...
A: Some of your questions are fairly easy to answer, the others are somewhat more difficult and I will ...
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| de ziel en het lichaam | 6/15/2009 | John Willemsens aka Advayavadananda |
Q: Hey john, ik heb hier en daar wat gelezen over boedhisme en begrijp iets niet goed. Ik las zo bv ...
A: Hallo Leander, Op de volgende pagina kun je een redelijk goed overzicht vinden: ...
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| Buddhism, fishing, and sentient beings | 6/13/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I have been trying to practice the Dhamma and live a detatched life of peace. I have always favored ...
A: Just imagine that you are the fish. Would you like to be treated such? Plants are not sentient ...
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| craving in a long distance relationship | 6/13/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: i practice Vipasanna meditation, in the Goenka tradition and have taken a few 10day courses. the ...
A: I assume that you are living a normal worldly life. Then you should lead your life in a worldly ...
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| Questions about Buddhism for Class | 6/13/2009 | Alex Wilding |
Q: What are the important holidays and traditions of this religion? How has religion shaped your ...
A: Dar Geral, What are the important holidays and traditions of this religion? They vary according to ...
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| Breath-meditation? | 6/12/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: Would you agree that breath-meditation is only a sort of 'base' that we can use to reach ...
A: I am not quite sure of the use of the word ‘base’ here; I would rather use the word ‘tool’. Masao ...
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| Buddhism,violence and war | 6/11/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I have recently been reading around Buddhism, and it has raised some interesting questions. I really ...
A: It is hard to develop the skills to truly question deeply and earnestly. I came from a Christian ...
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| buddha | 6/11/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: what was the buddhist stance on sex? is it ok to have premarital sex? you once said arahant is ...
A: It may good academic exercise to probe into details of how people got enlightenment. It is very ...
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| buddha | 6/11/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: what was the buddhist stance on sex? is it ok to have premarital sex? you once said arahant is ...
A: The answer is in the third precept. To elaborate: The third precept states that one should ...
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| Heartache | 6/10/2009 | Justin Choo |
Q: I am a mother of 2 kids. One is autistic, the other is low mentality but have really difficult ...
A: It is very heart-breaking to be in your position. The other religions would try to console you that ...
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| Buddhism,violence and war | 6/9/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: I have recently been reading around Buddhism, and it has raised some interesting questions. I really ...
A: You have encountered the problems that any idealized form of religion has and this is why I say that ...
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| Learning Zen | 6/6/2009 | Joe McSorley |
Q: Good evening sir, I want to learn zen. Is it a meditation, or a kind of practice, pls enlighten me. ...
A: To even attempt to say what Zen is becomes a problem in itself. In today’s world it has come to ...
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