Do you? (Buddhism, scriptures, recall, bible, verse)

[Somkid]

Originally Posted by lilithu

You're right, this is off-topic, and we completely disagree.

No, it isn't the point. I was asking you why you called Taoism a sect of Buddhism.

It is natural for people to disagree that's how things get done and things are learned as long as it is done in an academic and respectful way.

If I called Taoism a "sect of Buddhism" or implied it, it was purely unintentional I was suggesting that the book had wittings from all sects of Buddhism and included Chinese sources such as the Tao. As I said I am a Ch'an Buddhist and I was a monk for 12 years in China (and New Jersey for school but mostly China). My lineage uses the Tao as part of our philosophy but in fact we are Ch'an (Zen) Buddhists. I think perhaps my English may not have been clear as this is about the only place I get to use it anymore and if that is the case my sincere apologies.

[+Xausted]

A Buddhist Bible Index[/quote]
I sometimes use this source when I cant find what I need in the Library (which i quite often as I cant read Pali or Sansrit).
Ae you able to read it? Just if I ever need a translation I would like to be able to bug you


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(sorry this off the OP.I interprated the OP as almost an allergory for all of life, not just eating. However as I am not a Buddhist and I have just noticed your comment to Lilithu, I will get out of here..sorry)

[Jeremy Mason]

Originally Posted by Somkid

I was reading The Dharma in my office this morning as I do every morning until something strikes me that I can think on for the day, before I actually do any work and I came upon this and though back to my life in the USA rushed hurried and not very mindful, eating on the run going from here to there dazed and confused.

"If people knew, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they would not eat a meal without having shared it, nor would they allow the stain of meanness to obsess them and take root in their minds.



Even if it were their last mouthful, they would not eat a meal without having shared it, if if there were someone to share it with.

But because people do not know, as I know, the result of giving and sharing, they eat without having given, and the stain of meanness obsesses them and takes root in their minds.

--Itivuttaka 26

I thought about this a lot so far today and it really makes a lot of sense to me. Since I moved to Thailand I can't recall having a meal alone, with out friends, family or colleagues it is just the way of things here. When I lived in the states I always ate alone and I was bitter and mean towards those who would interrupt, eating was simply for sustenance not for sharing.

What do you think?

I just ate my words.

[Somkid]

Originally Posted by +Xausted

A Buddhist Bible Index

I sometimes use this source when I cant find what I need in the Library (which i quite often as I cant read Pali or Sansrit).
Ae you able to read it? Just if I ever need a translation I would like to be able to bug you


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(sorry this off the OP.I interprated the OP as almost an allergory for all of life, not just eating. However as I am not a Buddhist and I have just noticed your comment to Lilithu, I will get out of here..sorry)[/quote]

I can read Pali, Sanskirt and traditional Wu Chinese. I would be happy to translate anything you come across just PM me. If you are looking for anything hard to find let me know I have translated quite a few books to English and Spanish.

[zenzero]

Friend Somkid,
Just happen to read your post, now.
What is understood from your passage is that in Thailand you share your meals and while in US you found none doing so, why?
Simply put:
1. US is hardly over 200 years old and everyone's busy building the nation.
2. West complments the LOGIC part of the brain and not the INTUTION part which the East practices.
However it is both that make the whole. None alone is complete. Both are perfect in their own place but it is how we flow with it that makes the difference. If someone else were in your place in US maybe he would have found a way of sharing his food there too. One needs to put efforts to start a trend. American priest taught us in school and met few others and always found them as friendly as any other humans deep down except their upbringing is culturally differnt to eastern ways.
The world today requires a merging of both the phenomenon the scientific mind and the religious mind must work together to be a complete whole. Being intuitive the east has fallen behind in science and being Logical the west has not paid attantion to religion. Time for both the merge.
Kindly make efforts to understand and apply and make life a flow.
Love & rgds