Comments on: An exegesis of Sudhana’s Encounter with Vasumitra http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/ Dwelling in the Presence of the Name, of Amitabha Buddha Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:27:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Raymond Lam http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7892 Raymond Lam Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:21:55 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7892 Hi theravadin, thanks for the link. Yes, karuna is compassion and the foundational virtue of the Mahayana school... did I say overcome tanha with tanha? That doesn't even make sense, forget I ever said something like that. XD Hi theravadin, thanks for the link. Yes, karuna is compassion and the foundational virtue of the Mahayana school… did I say overcome tanha with tanha? That doesn’t even make sense, forget I ever said something like that. XD

]]> By: theravadin http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7891 theravadin Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:03:05 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7891 Hi Raymond, Here is a comment on a sutta you might be interested in: http://theravadin.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/craving-for-nibbana/ Overcoming tanha by tanha... BTW, isn't karuna compassion and tanha thirst!? Hi Raymond,
Here is a comment on a sutta you might be interested in:

http://theravadin.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/craving-for-nibbana/

Overcoming tanha by tanha…

BTW, isn’t karuna compassion and tanha thirst!?

]]> By: Raymond Lam http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7198 Raymond Lam Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:21:53 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7198 I don't think Tanha just means alone. It is also a variant on 'desire', but what constitutes negative desire. I don’t think Tanha just means alone. It is also a variant on ‘desire’, but what constitutes negative desire.

]]> By: Webmaster - Translations http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7173 Webmaster - Translations Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:12:50 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7173 In Samskrit, Karuna = करुणा means compassion Tanha is a Hindi word meaning alone. Sanskrit word for this is trishnaa = तृष्णा Or may be these are Pali varients of Sanskrit words. Please let me know. Webmaster - Translations http://freetranslationblog.blogspot.com In Samskrit,
Karuna = करुणा means compassion
Tanha is a Hindi word meaning alone.
Sanskrit word for this is trishnaa = तृष्णा
Or may be these are Pali varients of Sanskrit words.
Please let me know.

Webmaster – Translations
http://freetranslationblog.blogspot.com

]]> By: Raymond Lam http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7167 Raymond Lam Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:13:43 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7167 Unfortunately when people appeal to their own emotions and look at it with coloured glasses, they will not want to listen to reason. It takes a lot of emotional courage and mental fortitude to acknowledge that the unenlightened life is characterized by much suffering. This courage and fortitude, of course, is what Buddhism's all about. Unfortunately when people appeal to their own emotions and look at it with coloured glasses, they will not want to listen to reason.

It takes a lot of emotional courage and mental fortitude to acknowledge that the unenlightened life is characterized by much suffering. This courage and fortitude, of course, is what Buddhism’s all about.

]]> By: arulba http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7162 arulba Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:08:49 +0000 http://buddhawarrior.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/an-exegesis-of-sudhanas-encounter-with-vasumitra/#comment-7162 That's very interesting. I'm always amazed that people think Buddhism is life negating, hopefully that's not as popular a notion as it used to be? I ran into it a bit when I was exploring Buddhism a few years back. I'd always heard the First Noble Truth is where people get so tripped up because it's so heavily mistranslated as "life is suffering" when it's really more accurate to say, "the unenlightened life is suffering". I'm not so sure why people get so tripped up by being told that suffering is caused by desire. Even if it is translated that way, it's easy to reason through logically (at least in terms of wanting things/people/situations, etc. to be the way we want them to be). I have it written down as "suffering is caused by attachment, ignorance, mis-perception, and mis-knowing". I suppose that is much less difficult to attack or mis-understand than saying it is caused by desire. Thanks for sharing your understanding of the Avatamsaka sutra. Good food for thought. That’s very interesting. I’m always amazed that people think Buddhism is life negating, hopefully that’s not as popular a notion as it used to be? I ran into it a bit when I was exploring Buddhism a few years back.

I’d always heard the First Noble Truth is where people get so tripped up because it’s so heavily mistranslated as “life is suffering” when it’s really more accurate to say, “the unenlightened life is suffering”. I’m not so sure why people get so tripped up by being told that suffering is caused by desire. Even if it is translated that way, it’s easy to reason through logically (at least in terms of wanting things/people/situations, etc. to be the way we want them to be). I have it written down as “suffering is caused by attachment, ignorance, mis-perception, and mis-knowing”. I suppose that is much less difficult to attack or mis-understand than saying it is caused by desire.

Thanks for sharing your understanding of the Avatamsaka sutra. Good food for thought.

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