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  • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Buddha and Jesus performed miracles, but Mohomad performed wars.

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    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana No one performed miracles and magic is not real, grow up man.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , watch these miracles:

      Divine Powers ¤¤¤ Ram Bahadur Bomjon ¤¤¤ Full Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc

      More about him: Nepal: little buddha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDho1Y8MekE

      Mind reading and influencing: 
      Mentalist Lior Suchard Amazes Larry King (new link:) http://vimeo.com/65610863

      මනස කියවන ලියෝ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TaSgJtVQqE
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana Just Buddhist propaganda. Show me some peer-reviewed scientific publications posted on a credible scientific jurnal proving Buddhism is true.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , Ram Bahadur Bomjon meditated without eating and drinking for 10 months. Discovery Channel recorded 10 days, and he didn't even move. This is a Discovery Channel documentary: 

      Divine Powers ¤¤¤ Ram Bahadur Bomjon ¤¤¤ Full Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc
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    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana So? Still not a scientific research. Tell him to do it in a lab connected to equivalent to take data and publish the findings in a peer-reviewed journal article.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , He try run away from people, he moved to forest again.. He will not come to a lab. Watch the video first before making conclusions.
    • Zuber Ahmed Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae .... Lamartine - Histoire de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol II, pp. 276-77..... "Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana I have seen the video more than few times. This was even on news. There are Christian fathers who rase the dead, do you believe them? My guess is you don't because you are see through the bull shit but you fall to see through Buddhist bull shit. PS: meditation predates Buddhism. Buddhism only popularized meditation.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , 
      If Christian fathers rase the dead, discovery channel should have made a documentry about it to prove it. I don't think the Discovery channel could make a documentry about it. Christian fathers really rase the dead, that doesn't prove an existence of a creator God,       but we shouldn't ignore it and we can try to know how he do it. But I couldn't find a reliable documentry about it. But I could find reliable details about rebirth.

      I didn't say Buddhist meditation, I said Meditation only. I just wanted to tell you about the power of meditation which helps people a lot in many ways and even people can use it to develop spiritual power to perform miracles. I have an experience too. Once, I meditated few hours, then I could felt a cool inside my brain, and then I felt that a cool is going out from my eyes. It happened around 10 minutes. Now I have to take more time to meditate to bring a cool to my brain, and it became more and more difficult to feel that cool inside my brain again. I guess it requires a deeper meditation.

      Jasveen Puri tried to read mind, and he could do it too: https://www.youtube.com/user/jasveenpuri

      Science community doesn't have scientific methods to explain the spiritual power of meditation. But the spiritual power is a real thing with facts and evidence.

      Don't ignore the evidences about the Past lives.

      1.) Some children speak about their past lives (eg: i.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms587_Kw-0s ii.) Dr. Ian Stevenson's Reincarnation Research: https://www.near-death.com/.../research/ian-stevenson.html)

      2.) Near-death experience (eg: NDE Stages: i.) Peace ii.) Body separation iii.) Entering darkness iv.) Seeing the light v.) Entering the light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience)

      3.) Hypnosis or Past Life Regression (eg: Phenomenological list of experiential and transformative elements (Spontaneous and under hypnosis)
      i.) Xenoglossy (ability to speak a language unknown to speaker. Eg: http://www.iisis.net/index.php...)
      ii.) Birth marks/scars/congenital malformations related to significant or fatal wounds of past life
      iii.) Similar choice of jobs, hobbies to past life
      iv.) Inexplicable knowledge of places, locations, buildings related to past life
      v.) Preference for unusual foods, tastes, fashions similar to past life
      vi.) Phobia linked to problems/manner of death in previous life
      vii.) Recognition of family members/friends/favorite toys or objects from past life
      https://www.eternea.org/Past_Life_Recall_definition.aspx)

      4.) Ghost or spirit of a dead person (eg: Searchers for Paranormal Activity: Analytical View of the Supernatural: http://spaweb.tripod.com/theories.html)

      5.) Supernatural and Paranormal activities of people: 
      (eg: i.) "Ram Bahadur Bomjon (He said about his previous life with the power of meditation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDho1Y8MekE
      ii.) Man living with no brain puzzles scientists: http://www.pravdareport.com/.../25-07-2007/95241-no_brain-0/
      iii.) Mentalist Lior Suchard Amazes Larry King http://vimeo.com/65610863

      6.) The existence and the power of mind, concentration and Meditation. (eg: i.) At advanced jhana levels, one may be able to see one’s past lives and even of others. (The jhanas are altered states of consciousness which are produced from periods of strong concentration) https://dhammawiki.com/index.php/9_Jhanas ii.) Dreams and Spontaneous thoughts about some past and future events)
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    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana Christian fathers don't actually rase the dead it's just a hoax just like meditating without food and water for 10 months. 
      Meditation has health benefits just not magical ones. Smoke weed and you will see your brain cool too doesn't mean weed is magical, lol. Meditation does not give you magical powers and there is no scientific evidence for that whatsoever.

      Testimonial 'evidence' is not scientific evidence. There are no scientific evidence for past lives, ghost, paranormal activities, there is no such thing called 'power of mind' mine is a function of your brain. Mind is not a separate thing. People can see things but there is no evidence to support that they see is real. Take a random sample of thousand people and ask how many of them can remember their past lives. What you do is take all the outliers and present them as evidence, that is not how you analyze data. 

      Homo sapiens evolved 250 000 years ago in Africa and ever since, we were dying in so many different ways. So it's not hard to find a perfect match to a made-up story. When stories don't match or problematic they are simply ignored when there is a perfect match they get all the media attention and people like you use these stories as propaganda to spread your religion.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , If someone take a video of you can you stay without eating 10 days? But this boy did it in front of a camera teams of Discovery Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc

      Foods makes us feel better too, but meditation is something more than that. It changes the body without using a visible food. And it can calm mind making it more and more clear, which can make it open to process of the Universe. It is logical.

      Smoking cigarettes cause cancer, but you can't prove it without using people who had cancer. So Testimonial are parts of 'evidence'. You are just ignoring it. Not only that. Hypnosis already proved the existenc of past lives. I have heard about a research which said 2% from hypnotized people could see their past lives, and they spoke their previous language too.

      Buddha said about your view, it is called "Niyatha Mithya Drushti", it says if you reject the existence of next life without knowing about it, and if you reject the results of Karmic results, then it will not give you a good rebirth, and if you go to hell you will stay there more time than others. It is logical. What you think, you become. If you don't want truth, you will not receive it, that is a nature of life. If you reject the existence of next life, then it can make you move to a place like hell too, because hell is not a good life, and your merits will not support you to come back. I don't tell you to believe rebirth, but don't reject it, as an intelligent person.

      Balangoda ananda maitreya thero performed many miracles too. If you try to learn more about him then you will know about the power of mind. Buddha said us to follow teachings of wise people to be a better person. If you reject reliable documentries and scientific results, then you are very careless about your life.
  • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana I'm saying since Discovery channel is not a reliable source you have no proof that he actually did not eat or drink for 10 months straight.

    Meditation has health benefits, however, meditation does not give you unknown scientific information about the universe.

    Buddha also said not to believe just because he said so. He said understand and believe you can not understand and believe something without any scientific evidence including Buddhism. Buddha was a smart guy, in fact, if he lived today he will not believe in after life and all the other superstitious stuff you seem to believe.

    We know cigarette smoke cause cancer due to experiments and research not because people claim to have cancer after smoking cigarettes. In other words, the link between smoking and cancer has proven through scientific research. Testimonies are not scientific evidence.

    You can do scientific research on hypnosis, however, hypnosis itself is not scientific just like testimonies and there are no scientific research proving after life through hypnosis.
  • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , Discovery channel is reliable than most other channels. You must watch the Full Documentry first. Around 40 minutes. Before the Discovery channel few other people found him too: Rare clear view of Nepal Buddha Boy with interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQoxWQLSnCg
  • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , The scientists who did research about cancer can't prove whether the people really used cigarette or not. Some people can lie about it too, because the doctors don't come to his house to check it. So the scientists have to ask people whether they smoke cigarette or not. So people can lie about it too. Scientist can check the result, but they can't check the previous behaviours of people. Same apply to the people who can speak about past lifes and show signs in their body. We can use the person to test it without trying to find a video about his past lives from death to the next life.

    You are ignoring Ghosts, Hypnosis, A lot of Childrens with past life memories. A ghost attack one of my uncle when he eat meat, so he stopped eating meat. There are a lot of incidents about Ghosts. 

    You ignored the videos about the people who can read minds. But ignoring those things are not solusions. Science can take photos of brain, but it is still far away from identifying the activities of mind.
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  • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Zuber, Please explain the meaning of Success.
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    • Zuber Ahmed "If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

      Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Zuber Ahmed , I don't agree with your meaning of success. Success depends on personal choice. However, Buddha didn't use any name of a creator God to be successful. And Buddha didn't use laws and wars to be successful.
    • Zayir Hameed Zuber Ahmed u r kind of proving my first point how he became successful? What were the tools used to achieve those successes and to conquer and establish empires?
    • Zuber Ahmed Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae ....he didnt had to defend his peoples from enemies ...but mohammed had to by tribes of arabia ...
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Zuber Ahmed , you are wrong. A king Killed family members of Buddha. Buddha performed miracles three times to stop it, but He didn't try to stop it forth time because of Karma of his family members. Buddha didn't use wars to defend people. Wars depends on power, so the wars are not solusions. Wars doesn't make anyone successful.
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana I doubt Buddha or Muhammad ever performed miracles. You two are both slaves of your childhood indoctrinations.
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    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , watch these miracles:
      Divine Powers ¤¤¤ Ram Bahadur Bomjon ¤¤¤ Full Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc

      More about him: Nepal: little buddha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDho1Y8MekE

      Mind reading and influencing: 
      Mentalist Lior Suchard Amazes Larry King (new link:) http://vimeo.com/65610863

      මනස කියවන ලියෝ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TaSgJtVQqE
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana There are plenty of similar videos posted by Chistians and Muslims alike and you have no problem seeing through the bull shit so why do you have trouble with Buddhism? I assume because you were indoctrinated as a child to be Buddhist.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , 

      1.) විශ්වයේ නිර්මාණයේ සත්‍ය : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PnmU_Dh6bo Download Video (65 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../0B.../view...)

      2.) මැවුම් කරුවෙකු නොමැතිව විශ්වය ඇතිවීම : https://youtu.be/qy2v_uI7trM Download Video (89 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../1It0nljKifoxh9G066Ug.../view...)

      3.) නිර්වාන අවබෝධය : https://youtu.be/ZySo6fyYSVIDownload Video (33 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../1mtv.../view...)

      4.) මුළාව නිසා ජීවයේ ආරම්භය : https://youtu.be/kfRowL3rgYsDownload Video (169 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../1LiVCr5t.../view...)

      5.) කිසිවක් නැතුව (o) සහ අනන්තයෙන් (∞) විශ්වය පැමිණීම : https://youtu.be/ofL5rla442Q Download Video (153 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../12RP0EIi9HekbHNcIzNS.../view...)

      6.) මැවුම්කාර දෙවිකෙනෙක් සිටිනවාද? : https://youtu.be/L7PtdGki9sM | විශ්වය හැදිලා තියන විදිය දැනගන්න ඕනේ නම් මෙම වීඩියෝ එක බාගත (Download) කරගෙන සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලන්න. මෙතෙක් කිසිවෙක් නොදැන සිටි ගණිතමය පැහැදිළි කිරීමක්. | Download Video (205 MB: https://drive.google.com/.../1v1TO5agpDBHIsN0ivXk.../view...) | (* තවත් වීඩියෝ එකක් හදල තවදුරටත් පැහැදිලි කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා.) 

      This is a Discovery Channel documentary: 
      Divine Powers ¤¤¤ Ram Bahadur Bomjon ¤¤¤ Full Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , I was a Cathelic,, and I converted to Buddhism after self studies. I didn't learn Buddhism from any school. 

      I found scientific facts in Buddhism: http://bauddha-tharka.blogspot.com/.../does-creator-god...
      Does A Creator God Exist? - මැවුම්කාර දෙවිකෙනෙක් සිටිනවාද?
      BAUDDHA-THARKA.BLOGSPOT.COM
      Does A Creator God Exist? - මැවුම්කාර දෙවිකෙනෙක් සිටිනවාද?
      Does A Creator God Exist? - මැවුම්කාර දෙවිකෙනෙක් සිටිනවාද?

    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana Its very unfortunate to hear that you replaced one mythology with an other.
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    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , You make comments without reading and watching the videos. So you will never learn in deeper level.

      I could find these details from Buddhism: 

      1.) There are 1,000,000,000 (or 1,000,000,000,000) world-systems. (see for example Anguttara Nikāya i. 227-8).

      My Point: 
      1,000,000,000 (or 1,000,000,000,000) world systems came from 6 directions with 12 zeros: (+0-0) x (+0-0) x (+0-0) x (+0-0) x (+0-0) x (+0-0)

      2.) "Form is emptiness, Emptiness is form.
      Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness
      Whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form."
      - Prajnaparamita Sutras

      My Point: There are two main dimentions: -1 and +1

      3.) Every sixty-fourth mahākalpa, after fifty six destructions by fire and seven destructions by water, there is a destruction by wind. This is the most devastating of all, as it also destroys the Śubhakṛtsna worlds. The higher worlds are never destroyed. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology

      My Point: 64 is a number which can make a balance like the 'bits' we use in computers to store date. 8bits, 16bits, 32bits, 64bits. There are 32 energy levels in periodic table, so 64 is a pair of 32 bits which can make a balance. I could calculate 8 main formations mathematically, so 8x8 can make a balance too. There are three quarks in protons (in atoms) so the wind, water and fire can be those three dimensions inside a proton which maintain a balance with another dimension for an electron. I could count it mathematically like this: ((-1)3 x (+1))

      4.) The vertical cosmology is divided into thirty-one planes of existence and the planes into three realms, or dhātus, each corresponding to a different type of mentality. These three realms (Tridhātu) are the Ārūpyadhātu (4 Realms), the Rūpadhātu (16 Realms), and the Kāmadhātu (15 Realms). 

      My Point: We know that the atoms connect to another atom because of a requirement of an energy level. The 32 energy levels in the periodic table has a balance, but if a an atom make only 31 energy levels using protons, then it should connect to another atom to make a balance. So it shows a requirement of 1,000,000,000 (or 1,000,000,000,000) world-systems (31 levels of world in a world system) to make a balance with between world systems. And the formations of those 31 worlds shows a dimensional connection between worlds, which caused to exist 20 Brahma worlds without genders, because in the Brahma worlds the body is not using the same dimension which the mind using. So the first 10 levels enjoy bliss (with body) but the next 10 levels are neutral (with mind).

      5.) Buddhism explain about four quarters of the Universe from start to the end:

      First quarter – time taken for this world to form. (after the Big Bang)
      Second quarter – stable duration of this world where all living beings can thrive.
      Third quarter – time taken for this world to be destroyed.
      Fourth quarter – empty time period. (the accelerated Universe can convert the form into waves)

      6.) Buddha said that there were aeons more than the sands in Ganges river. 

      My point: The Universe can have a start, because sands in Ganges river has a limit. But because in the bottom of the river it ends with burned sands like Lava, so the Start of the Universe can be unclear, because the early few dimensions (I could calculate the first 8 formations/Datas mathematically) are very small and the Universe became larger after many aeons. 

      7.) The Satipatthana Sutta also mentions about three types of energies:
      1.) Arising
      2.) Vanishing
      3.) Both arising and vanishing

      My Point: Both arising and vanishing can happen at the same time. That is how the dimensions work. There Universe should make 2 different dimensions at the same time when the Universe create directoins. And after the big bang still the Universe should create directions and dimensions at the edge till the directions disappear before the next big bang, but the dimensions can continue to the next Universe. The Universe made main dimensions (+1-(-1)) during the big bang and it still it makes small dimensions (+0.0-0.0 makes +0.001-0.001) at the edge of the Universe (Dark energy can form from this: (+0.0-0.0)3 which accelerate the Universe).

      8.) Existence of the Aeons (Kalpa) in Buddhism. And the long durations of the Maha Kalpa.

      My Point: Existence of the Aeons (Kalpa) in Buddhism shows a start and an end of the Universe again and again. And the Buddhist explanations about the duration of the Kalpa can have a good connection to our mathematical calculations which can help us to predict the time of the next Big Bang.

      There are many numbers and explanasions in Buddhism which can help us to understand the formation of the Universe and life.
      Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia
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      Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia
      Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia

    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana No dear I have seen most of this before. You are have fallen prey to Buddhist apologist taking points. You are trying to fit Buddhism into science. It's the Buddhist version of Quranic science.
    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , Do you think Discovery Channel tell lies? 
      Can you stay without eating and drinking 10 months? But he did it staying under a tree, near Himalaya. He is usuing spiritual power of Meditation only.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7fpqPaeIc

      Lior Suchard is a famous mind reader and he influence mind: This is his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/supernaturalllllllll/videos

      If they could do it why don't you think Buddha couldn't do more than that?
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana Mind reading is proven to be falls the same way parlm reading is. 

      At the end of the day Discovery channel is just a TV channel. I don't believe he went without drinking for 10 month. I believe the probability of this being a hox is much higher than t      he probability of it being true.

      What do you mean "if they could do it why don't you think Buddha couldn't do more than that" if they could do what?

      If you want to prove Buddhism to be true prove the premise of Buddhism to be true. So prove reincarnation exist and caused by greed and once you get rid of all greed you stop reincarnation, get enlightened, and disappear.
    • Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithanahttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7304617.stm
      BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Grylls apologises for 'fake' show
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      BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Grylls apologises for 'fake' show
      BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Grylls apologises for 'fake' show

    • Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae Sumudu Vijayanthi Nagodavithana , There are few liers in every field. Lior Suchard came to Sri Lanka and performed mind reading. Sirasa News First showed it too. If you try to ignore those things you are too much careless about the reality. Buddha didn't meditated to stop drinking and eating, he wanted to remove attachment to body. And there are types of meditations too. And Buddha reduced foods few years when he tried to remove attachment.

      Sirasa News about Mind Reading: 1.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9sGhpk5lIs 
      2.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH5ZaTZgsfA

      Learn more about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior_Suchard

      Don't forget the Discovery channel is a western TV channel with a Christian backgound, so they don't try to prove Buddhism. Discovery channel Recorded the Boy 10 days continually. The boy didn't move from his place to drink and eat. And he didn't go to toilet. I guess you didn't watch the video yet. If you think Discovery Documentries are more reliable than most news articles. So don't try to ignore those things.
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What exactly does it mean to be Buddhist? I would say my spiritual beliefs are most in line with Buddhism, but I don’t practice Buddhism as a religion. Like I don’t go to church for it or have a teacher. I feel like I can still consider myself Buddhist but I feel like a lot of people would disagree. Thoughts?

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•Feb 11, 2019

 Suresh Madusanka:
The words 'Foolish man' is a wrong translation. Buddha never said like that. Buddha called him 'Empty man'. Buddha only used the words 'Empty man' to address stupid people. That is the only harsh word the Buddha used.

 Doug's Secular Dharma:
Well the word typically used in these situations by the Buddha is “moghapurisa”. The Pāli Text Society’s dictionary defines “mogha” as “empty, vain, useless, stupid, foolish”, and “moghapurisa” as “a stupid or dense fellow”. So yes, it does also mean “foolish” or “stupid”.

 Suresh Madusanka:
​@Doug's Secular Dharma Yes, may be the Pali Society use it like that too, because maybe some other people used that word like that, but the Buddha usually mean it as 'Empty'. I have heard that the meaning of the Pali word 'mogha' is 'Empty'.

 Suresh Madusanka:
The meaning of the words 'anātma' or 'anattā' are 'non-self', but some people translate the word 'anattā' as “with no refuge” or “without essence”. I guess they think that Anatta is similar to Anartha (Non-beneficial, No meaning or Unwanted things). So I guess it is better to use 'non-self' and non-significant-self' or non-significant-soul or non-beneficial' words when we describe the word 'Anatta' or 'Anātma'.

 Doug's Secular Dharma:
Right, though longer definitions become cumbersome so we tend to stick to things that are easier to say, like “non-self”.

 Suresh Madusanka:
@Doug's Secular Dharma Yes. the word non-self is not bad. I also use it, but some people in Thailand don't like to use it. So I thought  they would agree with something like this: non-consistent-self or non-significant-self'.
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Yudi Pinarto shared his first post.
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I have a question for my fellow atheists :
What do you think about Buddhism?

Suresh Fxtrader Wanayalae I'm an Athiest, but there are facts about rebirth. So I'm brave enough to accept the rebirth. Those who are not brave enough to accept it block me. Buddhism is the solution for rebirth:

What reasons prove past and future lives?

1.) Some children speak about their past lives (eg: i.) Muslim Girl Reincarnated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms587_Kw-0s ii.) Dr. Ian Stevenson's Reincarnation Research: https://www.near-death.com/.../research/ian-stevenson.html
iii. Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtTM9hgCDw
Reincarnation Research - University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine: https://med.virginia.edu/.../video-reincarnation-research/)

2.) Near-death experience (eg: NDE Stages: i.) Peace ii.) Body separation iii.) Entering darkness iv.) Seeing the light v.) Entering the light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience)

3.) Hypnosis or Past Life Regression (eg: Phenomenological list of experiential and transformative elements (Spontaneous and under hypnosis)
i.) Xenoglossy (ability to speak a language unknown to speaker. Eg: http://www.iisis.net/index.php...)
ii.) Birth marks/scars/congenital malformations related to significant or fatal wounds of past life
iii.) Similar choice of jobs, hobbies to past life
iv.) Inexplicable knowledge of places, locations, buildings related to past life
v.) Preference for unusual foods, tastes, fashions similar to past life
vi.) Phobia linked to problems/manner of death in previous life
vii.) Recognition of family members/friends/favorite toys or objects from past life
https://www.eternea.org/Past_Life_Recall_definition.aspx)

4.) Ghost or spirit of a dead person (eg: Searchers for Paranormal Activity: Analytical View of the Supernatural: http://spaweb.tripod.com/theories.html)

5.) Supernatural and Paranormal activities of people:
(eg: i.) "Ram Bahadur Bomjon (He said about his previous life with the power of meditation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDho1Y8MekE
ii.) Man living with no brain puzzles scientists: http://www.pravdareport.com/.../25-07-2007/95241-no_brain-0/
iii.) Mentalist Lior Suchard Amazes Larry King http://vimeo.com/65610863

6.) The existence and the power of mind, concentration and Meditation. (eg: i.) At advanced jhana levels, one may be able to see one’s past lives and even of others. (The jhanas are altered states of consciousness which are produced from periods of strong concentration) https://dhammawiki.com/index.php/9_Jhanas ii.) Dreams and Spontaneous thoughts about some past and future events)

How to Attain Nirvana (stop rebirth) - Answered: http://buddhist-essentials-and-concepts.blogspot.com/...

Does A Creator God Exist? - (No) Answered: http://buddhist-essentials-and-concepts.blogspot.com/...
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Was the Buddha Omniscient? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbmBzuoR8jM


Doug's Secular Dharma:
Was the Buddha omniscient? We will look at the attainment of nirvana or awakening and its overcoming of ignorance. We will also look at some evidence from the early suttas that the Buddha was not considered omniscient in his day. We will then turn to a kind of "all-knowingness" that we might say the Buddha -- or any awakened person -- might have.

 Nathaniel Charles:
In many occasions Buddha needed to enter samadhi to acquire answers. He surveyed the world each night before retiring of individuals that are ripped for awakening. So I think omniscience is like an ability of a Buddha, rather than a thing that operates non-stop. My opinion is due to His having a human body which has its limitations. Isn't Buddha's are said to having 3 kayas?

 Doug's Secular Dharma:

Thanks for that Nathaniel. The teaching of the three "kāyas" or bodies of the Buddha is a later teaching. My interest in this video was to illuminate the question using material from the early texts in particular. This was also Anālayo's aim in the paper cited.

 Suresh Madusanka:
According to the exegetical Theravaada tradition the Buddha is omniscient in the sense that all knowable things are potentially accessible to him. He cannot, however, know everything simultaneously and must advert to what he wishes to know.
Vaccha-gotta: "I have heard it said that the recluse Gotama[1] is allknowing and all-seeing?"
Buddha: "(i) AS LONG AS I PLEASE, I can call to mind all my own past existences,"
"(ii) AS LONG AS I PLEASE, I can see - with the Eye Celestial,"
"(iii) By destroying the Cankers,  I have won that Deliverance of heart and mind"
The Buddha is omniscient in the sense that all knowable things are potentially accessible to him only if he wishes to know, because the omniscient is a meditative state. The Buddha went to that omniscient meditative state when he needed to know very important things to establish Buddhism, but the Buddha usually did not use it to change some bad actions of a person or few people, because if the Buddha used his concentration all the time to control the world or control the bad people then the Buddha would not be able to establish Buddhism. (Eg: Buddha let Devadatta to be a monk. But Devadatta tried to kill Buddha. However, the Devadatta went to hell but the Buddha said that the Devadatta will end his cycle of rebirth as a Pacceka Buddha (Skt, Pratekya Buddha)).
MN 71: Tevijja-Vacchagotta-Sutta: The True Three-Fold Lore https://obo.genaud.net/dhamma-vinaya/chlm/mn/mn.071.chlm.sbb.htm

 There are traditionally three types of Buddha, the most important of which is the Samma Sammbuddha (Skt, Samyaksam Buddha) or Universal Buddha. A Pacceka Buddha (Skt, Pratekya Buddha) is someone who has become enlightened purely through his or her own wisdom (without the instruction of a Universal Buddha) but who cannot or chooses not to teach the Dharma to others. A Savaka Buddha (Skt, Sravaka Buddha) is a person who has become enlightened through acquaintance with the teaching of a Universal Buddha.



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