tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post5089878241569758340..comments2024-03-29T04:21:18.218-07:00Comments on dhamma musings: Copy Cat Buddha?Shravasti Dhammikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-47124629633642617212014-07-09T11:10:25.471-07:002014-07-09T11:10:25.471-07:00How did Buddha know rebirth and reincarnation was ...How did Buddha know rebirth and reincarnation was true? He did not die and come back to life to tell everyone?<br /><br />Thankspresa1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/12125347992712090662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-28210182316923764232014-07-09T11:09:48.607-07:002014-07-09T11:09:48.607-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.presa1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/12125347992712090662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-20476956701257943802013-07-04T18:55:29.115-07:002013-07-04T18:55:29.115-07:00Hinduism is a modern mixture of Vedic, Sramanic, a...Hinduism is a modern mixture of Vedic, Sramanic, and Dravidian animism. All of these strains existed during the time of the Shakyamuni. Jainism preceded Buddhism by hundreds of years and to it, the Buddha owed his lifestyle.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09653043174028684047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-70994460140906889012012-09-28T03:00:29.947-07:002012-09-28T03:00:29.947-07:00Wonderful Post but few mistakes:
1. Hinduism was ...Wonderful Post but few mistakes:<br /><br />1. Hinduism was known as Sanatan Dharma.<br /><br />2. There was/is any religion called Brahanism if you just try to even look at the history. Indian animism is very much part of Sanatan Dharma<br /><br />3. India was much more open to debate and criticism that is not easy to understand if one is born and brought up in Abrahmic religion culture. Indeed India had many "Darshana" school of thoughts. However one man show is not the nature of Indian or Indian religion until the time of Buddha. <br /><br />3. Vedas are clearly divided into two part : first one is talking abt rituals and second philosophical part. What Buddhist monk not Buddha though tried to borrow was later part. <br /><br />4. Chandogya did talk about "gaati" so as kath and so as Gita. It does not stop at "Pitru lok"<br /><br />5. The very word cause of 're-birth" cannot be directly accepted or understood unless one understand the ritual part along with upanisheda part. Hence just to have look at one side of the coin and come to conclusion is not acceptable<br /><br />6. Even the meaning of Upanishads is wrong. <br />7. Yes, the new contribution of Buddha was different concept to soul, but what is mental energy? Who illuminate it?<br />8. Indeed Buddhism didn't borrow anything from Hinduism except Buddha. <br />9. Buddha followed the very teaching and path of Sanatan Dharam got enlighten. <br />10. He never rejected Hinduism, I wonder why neo-buddhist are so much obsessed with it.<br />11. It is against the teaching of any Indic religion to abuse and refute. But each religion which took birth on land of Bharat had healthy tradition of criticism and debate which give birth to two new religion though I wonder DID BUDDHA or Rishabdev ever wanted to start the new religion like that of Abrahamic or it is just his follower?Sahibahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13368820212879994522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-66088458055487707172012-06-14T10:59:56.598-07:002012-06-14T10:59:56.598-07:00curious to know 'what hidden agenda did Swami ...curious to know 'what hidden agenda did Swami Vivekanand have?'. from whatever little i have read about him i think he was a great man (without any hidden agenda!). please do reply. <br /><br />PS. came across your blog only recently. read a few posts. like them shall read more. thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-28475167095827201712012-06-14T10:39:08.174-07:002012-06-14T10:39:08.174-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anand Morakhiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197750554103280964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-50457070861183296542010-08-03T06:13:00.867-07:002010-08-03T06:13:00.867-07:00A very useful post. Thanks.A very useful post. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-64780190894231472532008-06-13T02:49:00.000-07:002008-06-13T02:49:00.000-07:00Jai Jinendra, I am a Jain and read your posts with...Jai Jinendra, I am a Jain and read your posts with interest. I get irritated when people claim that Jainism and Buddhism are offshoots of Hinduism and that they borrowed the concepts of Karma, Moksa, Samsara, Ahimsa from Hindusim. Most of the people in India seem to be suffering from this antiquity frenzy of Hinduism. This has led me to study the historical origins of Jainism in particular and Sramanas in general. Most of the scholars are of the view that Sramanas are pre-vedic and pre-aryan and the concepts of Karma-moksa-jnana-samsara are sramana concepts “borrowed by the Brahmins.” If you need scholarly references you can mail me at anishshah19@hotmail.com. Similarly, although Mahavira was a senior contemporary of Buddha, it cannot be said that Buddha borrowed Mahaviras concepts, because the Buddhist theory of Karma, Atma, self etc seems to be prima-facie similar but quite different on the philosophical plane. Buddha may have been influenced by Parsva the penultimate Jain Tirthankara who historically existed 250 years before Mahavira. Whatever maybe the case, Jainism and Buddhism represent the ancient Sramana tradition that influenced and changed the entire landscape of the Indian philosophy.Jain Chroniclerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10114786421212237830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-69762193239257257172008-06-08T11:39:00.000-07:002008-06-08T11:39:00.000-07:00This is another good post indeed. Thank you Bhante...This is another good post indeed. Thank you Bhante.<BR/><BR/>As David said, I'd also like to read more about similarities & differences between Buddhism and Jainism if possible.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Ajñali,<BR/>T.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-3696219995675505922008-06-07T16:03:00.000-07:002008-06-07T16:03:00.000-07:00Dear Robert, please see my comments on June 6th wh...Dear Robert, please see my comments on June 6th which I accidently addressed to 'David'Shravasti Dhammikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-21392558356950011142008-06-07T14:38:00.000-07:002008-06-07T14:38:00.000-07:00This was interesting. I always thought that the ma...This was interesting. I always thought that the mainstream Brahmanical religions of the time did believe in reincarnation.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what Alara Kalama taught? Not sure anyone knows. The DPPN says "Asvaghosa, in his Buddhacarita (xii.17ff), puts into the mouth of Ārāda or Ālāra, a brief account of his philosophy. It has some resemblance - though this is slight - to the Sānkhya philosophy, but in Ālāra’s teaching some of the salient characteristics of the Sānkhya system are absent. In reply to Gotama's questions about the religious life and the obtaining of final release, Ālāra describes a system of spiritual development which is identical with the methods of the Buddhist monk up to the last attainment but one."<BR/><BR/>Sounds like even less is known about Uddaka-Rāmaputta.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589645693380512031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-81642184817839185812008-06-06T20:02:00.000-07:002008-06-06T20:02:00.000-07:00Bhante,Which leads us to ego, Ego and EGO; and tha...Bhante,<BR/><BR/>Which leads us to ego, Ego and EGO; and that anatta was actually not confusing the ego or the Ego with the EGO.<BR/><BR/>Ha! Ha! Ha!Justin Choohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11275697990382930245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-71222588615483795112008-06-06T15:23:00.000-07:002008-06-06T15:23:00.000-07:00In some ways old Father Christmas, as he as someti...In some ways old Father Christmas, as he as sometimes called, was more or at least as much, a Theosophist as he was a Buddhist. He spent much of his life trying to smuggle the self into the Dhamma. His idea was that there are three selves – the self, the Self and the SELF and that anatta was actually not confusing the self or the Self with the SELF.Shravasti Dhammikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-77293129128214723172008-06-06T03:11:00.000-07:002008-06-06T03:11:00.000-07:00Bhante,I am surprised that you wrote Christmas Hum...Bhante,<BR/><BR/>I am surprised that you wrote Christmas Humphries "had hidden agendas". This is news to me. Perhaps you might want to elaborate in your future post.<BR/><BR/>On a separate note, you sure are one very widely-read and learned monk.Justin Choohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11275697990382930245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-42336836722598139762008-06-05T21:29:00.000-07:002008-06-05T21:29:00.000-07:00Hi Bhante,I too would like to see a blog post from...Hi Bhante,<BR/><BR/>I too would like to see a blog post from you sometime on Jainism.<BR/><BR/>Jainism and Buddhism are incredibly similar, from the shramana tradition of monks going forth, the precepts, a women's order, non-violence, no creator god, no caste system, etc., plus the birth and going forth story of Mahavira and Buddha are virtually identical.<BR/><BR/>The Buddha talked about the Niganthas (Jains) frequently and we also hear of the "naked ascetics." Which came first, the Jains or the Buddhists? When do you think the Svetembara school developed. The Svetembara school is quite progressive with female nuns and they also believe that a previous Tirthankar was female, something not found in the Buddhist sammasambuddhas.David (TheDhamma.com)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07714427477703354493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-78972741544249321222008-06-05T06:25:00.000-07:002008-06-05T06:25:00.000-07:00Namo buddhaya, BhanteThe Buddha Siddharta Gotama n...Namo buddhaya, Bhante<BR/>The Buddha Siddharta Gotama never did copy ideas from Hinduism. He had attained arahatta level which made him having cula abhinha or 6 supernatural powers. One of these 6 was ability to gain knowledge once he needed the answer.Monotonismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16696358108005225340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-33636988917648860612008-06-05T04:54:00.000-07:002008-06-05T04:54:00.000-07:00Hello [i]bhante[/i]!I will look forward for your c...Hello [i]bhante[/i]!<BR/><BR/>I will look forward for your comments on Jainism. It seems to be one of the most important contemporary teachings to Buddha's.<BR/><BR/>And thank you for this post! It gives the lie to so many ideas that are popular nowadays...<BR/><BR/>Best wishes!ene.duehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15430027670044530763noreply@blogger.com