Buddhism

I'm focusing on the Heart Sutra at the moment!

I practice Chan, Chinese Zen. The Chan temple was just the Buddhist centre closest to me, but I've never regretted the choice. I like the bodhisattva vows, and appreciate the focus on meditation. I'm also a fan of Chinese culture, and I like the traditions of Chan more than Japanese Zen. What about you?

Just curious. I refer to myself as Buddhist-ish. I read some dharma at least weekly if not daily, struggle thru weekly seated meditation, and recite the Loving Kindness meditation daily. But I don't have a Sangha near me and likely wouldn't join one even if there was one available.

Ushiku Daibutsu: the Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki is one of the tallest statues in the world and at 120m is the tallest Buddhist statue.

• Is there a world outside of you? Or is there no world outside of you?
• Experience independent of your senses
• Is the world eternal or not
• The Root of All Sutta MN 1
• How to develop "not-mine" and "not-I am"
• Necessity of virtue
• You exist because you take things to be yours
• When Eternity becomes impermanent and unownable
• Disowning yourself
• Right and wrong questions
• Simile of the arrow and the surgeon
• How to diminish the pressure of sensual desires

Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon

To those who started in one tradition then began following another, what was your experience of that transition, and why did you make it?

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