I'm leaving forever.

[DaShi]

textbook was used generally.

Anyway, personally, I don't think you will be successful in Buddhism if you follow your current path. You engage in "debates" in order to satisfy your own personal desires (if you claim that you are doing it for others then you are both ignorant and foolish). If you wish to cultivate anything in Buddhism, you must cultivate it in yourself. Your response to my post shows that you are not even ready to learn to teach. Hopefully, your time in the monastery will be enlightening for you. However, I suspect you'll find something that you aren't expecting. Either way, it will be good for you. I'm confident in that.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DaShi
Currently, you are at an aneeshm level. You do for Buddhism what he does for India.

QFT

[Blake]

Originally posted by DaShi
textbook was used generally.

Anyway, personally, I don't think you will be successful in Buddhism if you follow your current path. You engage in "debates" in order to satisfy your own personal desires (if you claim that you are doing it for others then you are both ignorant and foolish).

I'm not doing it for anyone, I'm doing it to have fun .

There is one thing I've noticed about senior monks, they always laugh at their own jokes! Sometimes they giggle like idiots at their own jokes.

And sometimes I catch myself thinking "Stop giggling you silly monk!", and that helps me understand the nature of having fun .

It's a beautiful little lesson they teach.

[Wiglaf]

Oh my GOD.

[Blake]

Oh my GOD! It's Wiggy!

[Nugog]

Good Luck Blake!

[Arrian]

Whatever floats your boat, man.

-Arrian

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I think accepting contradiction in philosophy and religion is just as unacceptable as not accepting it.

Please tell me that this was an intentionally ironic post highlighting the internal contradiction therein!

If it was, then this is one of the best things I've seen all morning.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by DaShi
Actually, Blake. You are extremely arrogant. You claim to be a teacher, but you are not ready. You a still a student and you need to develop more skills than you can learn in a textbook about Buddhism, if you ever hope to successfully teach anyone about it. Currently, you are at an aneeshm level. You do for Buddhism what he does for India. In doing so, you shame your beliefs as well as yourself.

Maybe that was intended as an insult, or a troll, I don't know. With you, it's very difficult to tell.

But I've given up trying to "debate" in the manner I used to earlier. I realise the folly of that now. It may happen that I look upon my behaviour now as folly some years from now.

The more I learn, the more I understand that I have an infinity left to learn yet. I am reminded of that quote:

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia


Please tell me that this was an intentionally ironic post highlighting the internal contradiction therein!

If it was, then this is one of the best things I've seen all morning.

I think it was, but like you I wasn't sure since I'm not used to that from Kid.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Blake

I'm not doing it for anyone, I'm doing it to have fun .

There is one thing I've noticed about senior monks, they always laugh at their own jokes! Sometimes they giggle like idiots at their own jokes.

And sometimes I catch myself thinking "Stop giggling you silly monk!", and that helps me understand the nature of having fun .

It's a beautiful little lesson they teach.

Wow! You're a moron, if you can't see the difference. I won't explain it now, it's better if you can see it for yourself. If I need to explain it, then you may be too far gone because it's really obvious.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Maybe that was intended as an insult, or a troll, I don't know. With you, it's very difficult to tell.

But I've given up trying to "debate" in the manner I used to earlier. I realise the folly of that now. It may happen that I look upon my behaviour now as folly some years from now.

The more I learn, the more I understand that I have an infinity left to learn yet. I am reminded of that quote:

Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.

It was an insult. But yes, you have been much better.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia


Please tell me that this was an intentionally ironic post highlighting the internal contradiction therein!

If it was, then this is one of the best things I've seen all morning.

[Blake]

Originally posted by DaShi
Wow! You're a moron, if you can't see the difference. I won't explain it now, it's better if you can see it for yourself. If I need to explain it, then you may be too far gone because it's really obvious.

And you're a moron if you can't see the similarity .

But the lesson I took away from my reaction towards someone giggling to themselves.

If you can get annoyed at someone having truly harmless fun, then you can get angry at anything. It's easier to just lighten up a bit .

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Blake


And you're a moron if you can't see the similarity .

But the lesson I took away from my reaction towards someone giggling to themselves.

If you can get annoyed at someone having truly harmless fun, then you can get angry at anything. It's easier to just lighten up a bit .

You're not having harmless fun. You're being a ***** and giggling with delight at how it negatively affects people. That's the difference. Too call it harmless fun is naive. You're intent is to rile other people and obtain perverse pleasure from it. It's not being cleaver, it's being an ass.

It's sad that you took such a poor response to the way the monk acted. I suspect your failures at the monestary will be many and humiliating. If you can take it humbly, you may just advance and become a human being (I'd be surprised if you could attain more than that). If you behave like you do here, you may be asked to leave.