New Posts For Thread: Praying to what?http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_whatJust been listening to the venerable Sarah Thresher giving a talk entitled 'Healing the Pain'. Enlightening, and inspiring, but it did raise (at least) a couple of questions.The main one is that at the end she finishes the talk with a couple of 'praybut the thread helped me understand about praying... so you pray to enhance your loving-kindness - i.e. you pray to enhance yourself..?What do you think, is clinging or desire (which leads to suffering) involved in such practice? Could this loving kihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=524011053#524011053but the thread helped me understand about praying... so you pray to enhance your loving-kindness - i.e. you pray to enhance yourself..?What do you think, is clinging or desire (which leads to suffering) involved in such practice? Could this loving kiMon, 10 Sep 2012 19:22:01 -0500I guess I'd assumed... I'm glad you asked! I suppose it may not be important, but it still seems like there are some things taken on faith, (although as always correct me of course if I have misunderstood)... like buddha nature. How could anyone knowhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=524005951#524005951I guess I'd assumed... I'm glad you asked! I suppose it may not be important, but it still seems like there are some things taken on faith, (although as always correct me of course if I have misunderstood)... like buddha nature. How could anyone knowMon, 10 Sep 2012 17:13:47 -0500Why do you think the buddha taught reincarnation?http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=523950537#523950537Why do you think the buddha taught reincarnation?Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:10:14 -0500Hi Allen!I'm coming to this thread late, unfortunately, but I was pleased to see that I am not alone in having querys about areas of buddhism that seem to anticipate faith / mysticismthis was particularily troubling because one of the things that orihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=523947001#523947001Hi Allen!I'm coming to this thread late, unfortunately, but I was pleased to see that I am not alone in having querys about areas of buddhism that seem to anticipate faith / mysticismthis was particularily troubling because one of the things that oriSat, 08 Sep 2012 19:25:32 -0500In the course of seeking to answer the question of the poster here Bakta and I have sought to express our respective understandings of the forms of prayers and practices found in the Mahayana schools of Buddhism. Some of those in the Theravada who ohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=521170025#521170025In the course of seeking to answer the question of the poster here Bakta and I have sought to express our respective understandings of the forms of prayers and practices found in the Mahayana schools of Buddhism. Some of those in the Theravada who oSat, 23 Jun 2012 14:44:26 -0500The point of the above commentary derives from the Buddhist philosophy of the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus or Sad Dharma Pundarika Sutra establishes that the Buddha's true intentions at the very beginning of his vocation was to awaken the very same state ohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=521103845#521103845The point of the above commentary derives from the Buddhist philosophy of the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus or Sad Dharma Pundarika Sutra establishes that the Buddha's true intentions at the very beginning of his vocation was to awaken the very same state oThu, 21 Jun 2012 21:34:22 -0500Etoro,Thank you for your reply.Perhaps we should leave at this, then. For, it is better to part company peacefully than in enmity.As a young man, I never had any religious experience or moral education. At school we were taught the 'Ten Thou Shalt Nohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=520998811#520998811Etoro,Thank you for your reply.Perhaps we should leave at this, then. For, it is better to part company peacefully than in enmity.As a young man, I never had any religious experience or moral education. At school we were taught the 'Ten Thou Shalt NoTue, 19 Jun 2012 10:16:50 -0500Etoro,Thank you for your reply.Perhaps we should leave at this, then. For, it is better to part company peacefully than in enmity.As a young man, I never had any religious experience or moral education. At school we were taught the 'Ten Thou Shalt Nohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=520988471#520988471Etoro,Thank you for your reply.Perhaps we should leave at this, then. For, it is better to part company peacefully than in enmity.As a young man, I never had any religious experience or moral education. At school we were taught the 'Ten Thou Shalt NoTue, 19 Jun 2012 05:41:33 -0500I'm with you on all that you have said above. I also agree and that is why I chant the sacred sound of the Lotus Sutra, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Nichiren is the embodiment of Bodhisattva Visasatacarita. No other single monk in the world can understandhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=520972811#520972811I'm with you on all that you have said above. I also agree and that is why I chant the sacred sound of the Lotus Sutra, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Nichiren is the embodiment of Bodhisattva Visasatacarita. No other single monk in the world can understandMon, 18 Jun 2012 15:21:48 -0500Etoro,I am now going to continue offline.I am not remotely interested in Sino-Japanese Buddhism because my foundation is Brahmanism, which is from the Sanskrit. But, the foundation of Brahmanism is the Vedas.India is in no need of Teaching from Japanhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/51615/29018119/Praying_to_what?post_id=520954983#520954983Etoro,I am now going to continue offline.I am not remotely interested in Sino-Japanese Buddhism because my foundation is Brahmanism, which is from the Sanskrit. But, the foundation of Brahmanism is the Vedas.India is in no need of Teaching from JapanMon, 18 Jun 2012 06:55:18 -0500