http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/ http://buddypress.org/?v=1.2.9 en 28@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:27:40 +0000 Bhikkhu Samahita Friends: The 5 Clusters are Burning on Ignorance! The Blessed Buddha once explained: Friends, form is burning, feeling is burning, perception is burning, mental constructions are burning, and consciousness itself is burning... Burning with what? Burning with Greed. Burning with Hate. Burning with Ignorance. Burning with rebirth. Burning with ageing. Burning with decay. Burning with sickness & pain. Burning with death. I tell you: Burning with Suffering! Understanding this fully, friends, the learned Noble Disciple is disgusted with all form, feeling, perception, and with all constructions! He is disgusted even with consciousness! The experience of that disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment. Through this disillusion, the mind is completely released! When it is liberated, then this assurance appears: "This mind is fully and irreversible freed" and one instantly understands: The rebirth process is now ended, this Noble Life have been completed, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this... More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/House_on_Fire.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm http://What-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Burden_and_Prison.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breaking_the_Bonds.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:61 III 71 http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html The 5 Clusters of Clinging burns on Ignorance! The Burning Five! http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm 3@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:14:30 +0000 Merijn Hi all, just thought I'd say Hi. I'm pretty new to online Buddhism and I think I could do with a Sangha. I'm frankly glad to have found others that value a "non-sectarian" approach to meditation. It feels like one carries enough cultural baggage, already. Thanks for setting this up, Al! 4@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:33:35 +0000 Al Jigen Billings Does anyone have any questions or thoughts? So far, people are signing up but no one is really doing much on the site as of yet. 12@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:33:04 +0000 Al Jigen Billings Does anyone have any suggestions how we could double or triple the number of people using this site? How do we make it better and more attractive? We don't have self-sustaining numbers yet and, as people know, building a new community is pretty hard. 26@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:19:54 +0000 Al Jigen Billings I want to welcome the new OneSangha members from the Maria Kannon Zen Center to the site. Members of MKZC have decided to use OneSangha to host a class on the precepts that they are doing within their center. I encourage them to check around the site, post on existing groups, and to create more groups for topics of interest. We're still trying to boot-strap this site into existence. 14@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:10:06 +0000 Friday From the New York Times, August 20, 2010: "Sooner or later, every traditional faith has to confront sexual impropriety by its spiritual leaders: extramarital sex, or sex with the wrong people (members of the congregation, minors) or, for supposedly celibate clergy, any sex at all. "But there are great differences in how religions handle these transgressions. For Jews and many Protestants, it is the local congregation that decides what sins are too great to countenance, and what kind of discipline is needed. For Roman Catholics, a worldwide hierarchy decides, depending on reports from local representatives. And for Buddhists — well, the answer is not so clear. "The root of the problem, some experts say, is that the teacher/student relationship in Buddhism has no obvious Western analogy." See full article by Mark Oppenheimer at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/us/21beliefs.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=zen&st=cse 9@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:33:52 +0000 Tylik Does anyone have any recommendations for intelligent treatments of bioethics from a Buddhist perspective? There are a few books available (Damien Keown's book comes to mind, though it looks like it might be much more about medical practice than research) but not much information about the books. I'm a neurobiologist, I work with animals. (Sea slugs, for the most part.) Sometimes I kill them. I am also sometimes a gardener. While this all are parths I've chosen with a great deal of deliberation, there are interesting questions that come up... and yet I'm kind of shocked by how shallow much of the discussion of issues around killing seems to be, and I'm getting a little frustrated with facile equations of medical research with animal testing of cosmetics. (Or defenses of vegetarianism that pretty much seem to require that one be a middle class american. And I happen to be a vegetarian.) (To be clear: I'm not looking for resources to prop up my own world view and choices. I'd just prefer ones that didn't contain too many factual inaccuracies or really blatant logical fallacies.) 10@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:24:12 +0000 Al Jigen Billings Robert Aitken Roshi died last night. This is a sad moment for American Zen. He had a profound effect on people. http://robertaitken.blogspot.com/2010/08/goodbye-dad-grandfather-papa-friend.html http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=17934 2@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/topic/creating-groups/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/topic/creating-groups/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:28:44 +0000 Al Jigen Billings "Groups" here on this site act as gathering points of interests. Within these groups, you can have a forum where people can post messages like this. There is also the possibility of attaching other data to a group. People should feel free to create more groups. I expect there to be ones centered on different overall topics that are general enough or focused enough (either!) to spawn organized message boards. I expect that most of the different Buddhist traditions and a number of organizations or lineages will have groups to act as a center point for forum discussions. You can also have private groups or even hidden groups. I encourage people to create groups within reason and to play with things a bit. 1@http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/topic/creating-groups/topic/general-questions/ http://www.onesangha.org/groups/general/forum/topic/daily-dhamma-drops-from-ceylon/topic/saying-hi/topic/questions-and-thoughts/topic/how-do-we-get-people-to-use-this-site-and-make-it-better/topic/welcome-maria-kannon-zen-center-members/topic/nyt-sex-scandal-has-u-s-buddhists-looking-within/topic/killing-and-bioethics-resources/topic/robert-aitken-roshi-is-dead/topic/creating-groups/topic/general-questions/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:50:11 +0000 Al Jigen Billings Do you have any general questions?