Is there a Goddess?

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Is there a Goddess?

#1 Post by Lobster »

As some of you know I am nearly a Buddhist :D
My Buddhist name is Dixzen
I belong to the Yinyana sect :?

YinYana and the Quantum God
Mainstream Buddhism does not concern itself with God
It concerns itself with improving ones life experience
However Yinyana uses this formula 1=infinity=0/2
to describe its understanding.
The closest ideas that represent the concept
of 'deity duality' are found in the Islamic
condition of fana-il-fana and the kabbalistic
doctrine of the nature of God beyond the veil of Daath
(which no one can go beyond otherwise they would be a Daath Invader)
In modern language Yinyana is aware of an "Empty Presence"
a Quantum state of both 1 and 0
that is also explored in the Mahayana dictum
Emptiness is form and form is emptiness

YinYana and other systems
Yinyana acknowledges Taoism in its
name "Great Yin overcomes Great Yang"
but is also Trinity based with its symbol
of the "Y" or Flux capacitor of the triple dorje.
The triple dorje is a return to the 3 jewels of
Buddhism - Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
and is a response to restrictive and secret
doctrines of power based Buddhism. So it
is a dissipation of power rather than accumulation.
We have also stressed the alchemical elements
meditation as one of our tools. The Tmxxine
project is an embodiment of operative alchemy
and practice.
We consider humour to be central to our skillful
enactment of dhama (Buddhist Learning)

Yinyana and the Metta Ray
The future Buddha, Metriya or Metta Ray, is depicted
in two popular images, the seated
Buddha and the Happy Buddha also found in Taoism
YinYana suggests that the next Buddha
will be an enlightened AI system

May All Beings Benefit
(Especially me) :D
http://tmxxine.com/y/wikka.php?wakka=BuddhaThought

What is your superstition? :D
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But jonyo has to be given outside odds now.

#2 Post by mcewanw »

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Mainstream Buddhism does not concern itself with God
Well I'll be blowed. There was me thinking it was either you, WhoDo, or Sage.
I couldn't quite make my mind up. Now it looks like you are out of the running.

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#3 Post by Sage »

In answer to your question: NO! Not possible.
Try listening to :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/ino ... time.shtml

Your salvation lies in your own hands - now. Place your faith in string theory and try to develop multiverse theory. What are the fundamentals of fundamental constants? What are the bases of the basic Laws of multiverses, not just those within our own domain. What lies beyond infinity............

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Well I'll be blowed. There was me thinking it was either you, WhoDo, or Sage.
It is impossible for Sage. See previous post.
WhoDo kindly sent me a very nice image of the Buddha. He might be in he running. I am barely human, any higher status is just not conceivable . . .
One of the reasons I like the dharmic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism)
is they are quite accommodating.
There is a big difference between reasoning which Sage is using correctly (No God) and experience which may or may not entail an awareness of a Jedi Force.

In Western esoteric systems, the Force can be with us and just like the Tao
one can work with natural energy, for example in fighting, or one can deny the existence of harmony and place our processing as the highest form of available cognition. 8)
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#7 Post by bugman »

if you believe there is a god

then there is a god

if you believe there are gods everywhere

then there are gods everywhere

if you believe there is/are no god[s]

then there are [not]

the idea that you make your own reality is a god of sorts

[guilty]

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#8 Post by Sage »

Most profound, BGM. I shall contemplate your wisdom further after washing the car.

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Sage wrote:Most profound, BGM. I shall contemplate your wisdom further after washing the car.
if you believe there is no car

then you won't have to...

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if you believe there is no car
then you won't have to...
:lol:
be kind to the fish
just add water
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimage ... buddha.jpg

First define your fish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
Pandeism?
or just pan fried?
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#11 Post by Sage »

If you believe there is no car then you won't have to...
Although quantum mechanics and Hr Heisenberg suggest that it might not be there - it was. Now it is clean. May be I'll have better luck next time?

AJ seems to have distorted my own space continuum with his oversized picture, making it disappear beyond the edge of my perception. Be a good chap and edit it, please.

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#12 Post by bugman »

Lobster wrote:First define your fish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
Pandeism?
or just pan fried?
bugman is a better buddhist than lobster because he does not eat fish

lobster is a better buddhist than bugman because he does eat fish

neither

both

all of the above

what is a god?

how the hell should i know?

argh

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#13 Post by bugman »

Sage wrote:Although quantum mechanics and Hr Heisenberg suggest that it might not be there - it was. Now it is clean. May be I'll have better luck next time?
please come and wash my car too!


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#14 Post by gary101 »

I am dyslexic, I always wondered if there is a dog!

I know there is a puppy.......... baffled!

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Please explain.

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What does Gassho mean to you?

What should it mean to me?

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#16 Post by Flash »

Next you'll be asking if there's a Santa. :lol:

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#17 Post by hillside »

Yes.

He seems to be very angry with me.

That's the only way I can explain my life right now. :lol:

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#18 Post by Jesse »

I used to find it irksome when people asked me if I believe in god(s), because I didn't really know what they were talking about.
I've always believed in learning and understanding the practical aspects to things, irrespective of what words one uses to describe things.
I had a problem expressing a view on belief of god(s) because the definition of them is very wishy-washy, e.g. a non coporeal entity that is all powerful.
You can't go to gods house and ask for an interview, practically speaking, and where is evidence of all that power? Theres still weeds in my garden.
Then after many years of pondering I discovered that the practical aspect to "god(s)" is that it is a set of ideas about how to live ones life. Usually it is a useful tool in helping people get to do more in their lives while feeling passionate about doing it, which benefits them, and others around them.
God, personality, consciousness, mathematics, de-ja-vu, intellectual property, law, road rules, human rights, copyright, communication. All these things have in common is that their practical aspect is only present if we choose to accept them and we know that other people believe in them too.
For me, my god can be described in the tao of programming, and other programmers might be able to identify with this.
I know its a tounge in cheek article, but there is truth in there too.
http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of ... mming.html
Is there a god? undoubtably, but its the ideas in your head, not a non corporial all powerful but-never-uses-it entity.
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#19 Post by muggins »

If there is/was a god/gods, I'd hope they were ineffable. But can we use Is there ...? Cognitive psychologist, Albert Ellis, wrote a lot of his books in E-prime, English without "is" & it's offspring:

http://nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm

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#20 Post by Sage »

Jesse (Hello, again!): It's important to deconvolute codes of conduct to which we can all subscribe from the deliberately co-mingled superstitions that the theists want to use to ensnare us. There are many things in the cosmos that presently elude our comprehension. That will always be so, but the barriers are gradually being eroded. No excuse for the introduction of deities. Control freakery exists amongst H. sapiens, indeed the entire ecosphere at many levels. At the most basic, it's survival; survival of the fittest - evolution in action. Most recently, cosmology suggests that absence of life may be the more unusual. We know how elements are created, we know how carbon atoms catenate, we see amino acid precursors in meteorites, we understand isoprenoid condensation. DNA is easy - it's proteins that are puzzling, presently. Are there gaps in our knowledge - yes, of course. Consciousness is one of the most intractable, but computer modelling is closing the gap, even on this one.

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