/lit/ - Literature

>>8151540
If you mean the person posting pictures of Buddha-statues then no, I'm not Kantbro. Kant seems interesting but I haven't gotten into him yet.

>>8151485
Yes, in Buddhism suffering is a different concept then physical sensations. Buddha never claimed that the people who practiced his teachings or became enlightened would no longer experience pain, hunger, or uncomfortable temperatures etc. In Buddhist practice its instead about not reacting with emotions or cravings for a change in physical conditions. Obviously if you are in danger or risk being physically harmed then you should remove yourself from what is causing you but in terms of experiencing hunger or the cold/wetness of rain in Buddhist practice you should just be aware of the sensation but not be effected by it or dwell on it.

>>8152200
I haven't read much on Zen but I have not spent much time on the theological/esoteric facets of Buddhism either. I not sure why you got that impression but all the stuff I posted about has to do with basic concepts of Buddhism. Maybe in Zen where compared to Theravada there is a bigger focus on meditation then the ideas in Buddha's teachings but what I posted about and Buddha's teachings are not that complicated or esoteric if you put a little effort into understanding them.

Mandalas, dancing, drumming and stuff about Boddhisattvas has nothing or very little to do with Theravada Buddhist practice, the practice of the first groups of Buddhists or Buddha's recorded teachings. I enjoy meditation and it is something that I am experienced in and have gone deep into. If you are just focused on meditation while ignoring Buddha's teachings though you are not practicing Buddhism as Buddha taught it should be practiced and are just meditating.

And there is nothing wrong with that, Buddha himself became enlightened after a long meditation session and he said that it was possible to become enlightened without following his teachings and even leaving aside ideas like enlightenment mediation has been shown to be good for mental health and improving brain functioning but if you are going to try to practice Buddhism in the way that all the evidence indicates Buddha intended for it to be practiced then its better to not dismiss basic concepts of his teachings as being useless or distracting theological/esoteric ideas.

>>7221993

I didn't interpret it as a personal attack on me but just that you were/are angry and angrily wrote out your post even if I wasn't the one you were angry at. I thought you were angry because your post was full of negative connotations that someone usually wouldn't use in a friendly or even neutral conversation.

I don't know why you insist that intuitively feeling, suspecting or leaning toward something on the basis of intuition is emotional-based logic because its not, emotion and intuition are two different and separate things; however much the intuition of an emotional person might be clouded or influenced by emotion.

Just because some people have some doubts about the research of Ian stevenson does not mean that is automatically bunk. Its virtually guaranteed that anyone who investigates these sorts of things will have other people saying their research is flawed.

I don't know what answer you are looking for but my answer is that on a mainly intellectual and institutional answer it makes the most sense to me and that its also of interest to me that there is plausible evidence for it in my opinion.