The Bodhi Way (三乘菩提)

[Buddhism]

When you quote "fundamental concepts of buddhism" that is not your idea unless you mean that buddhism to be yourself.
regarding cycle of births and deaths; you, me and everyone else alive or dead, have same level of knowledge and reliable information.

Certainly not the same level!!
Your question was "'Your' 'ideas'" but not "Your 'expereinces'"!
Of course, we all learn from others' ideas, teachings or experiences;
in terms of Buddhist cultivation, we are able to identify the Buddha's ultimate teachings through our own experiences.

In a way, your remark is very good here!
The fifty-two stages of the bodhisattva's cultivation path are exactly the unique processes for every individual to substantiate the personal realization of the Buddha dharma step by step.

I did mention many times on both threads that the Buddhist cutlivation should be practice through personal realizaiton of the Alayavijnana, Buddha nature (enlightenment). Thereby one will be able to understand the pure meaning of the sutras and base on the methodology of the three-ways-of-knowing---knowing by ultimate teachings (sutras), personal experience and logical inference, and the standpoint of both real practice and personal realization.

Regarding the personal experience on cycle of births and deaths, mind my words, you would know it in due course while you are still alive, even sooner, if you would have taken proper practice - - but not by eating ice cream or having sex.

[Isha]

When you quote "fundamental concepts of buddhism" that is not your idea unless you mean that buddhism to be yourself.
regarding cycle of births and deaths; you, me and everyone else alive or dead, have same level of knowledge and reliable information.

You have not answered yet!

BTW what if Icecream is sold by reborn 'The Lord Buddha' himself or The Reborn Buddha is the partner? One never knows in which form God will approach

[Buddhism]

You have not answered yet! :

Very good, keep on pondering!

BTW what if Icecream is sold by reborn 'The Lord Buddha' himself or The Reborn Buddha is the partner? One never knows in which form God will approach

No problem, you would be the same as what you are; The Lord Buddha would be The Lord Buddha!
The prajna wisdom does not transform through ice cream or sexuality; it works the same way as we have to go to school daily to study and learn since childhood onwards; our parents could not do the job for us. Right?

[Isha]

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So, you are a brain-washed and incapable of thinking anything. Good for you.

[Buddhism]

The Mahayana practitioners are to experience and purify all the stored-seeds in order to complete the fifty-two stages of the bodhisattva cultivation (the third round of the dharma transmission) and eventually to bring forth the ultimate Buddha wisdom (All-Seed-Prajna 一切種智). Among all cultivation methods, both the dharma 法and the auxiliary dharma 次法 are equally important for every practitioner...
Note: 1. The Hinayana practitioners merely focus on the cultivation of deeds and speeches, while the Mahayana
practitioners must include that of their thoughts.
2. The statements here are simplified for easy understanding, more elaborations will be given upon request.

The auxiliary dharma 次法 is of vital importance for the Mahayana practitioners.
During our bodhi path cultivation, as the practitioners all focus on the methods of obtaining the prajna wisdom accordingly, but every individual’s conditions and achievement would turn out significantly different in the end. This fact is mostly due to the diversity of the auxiliary dharma collecting; in other words, different merits and virtues will influence the result.

The Buddha is well known for possessing perfect virtues and wisdom 福慧兩足尊, which have been accumulated through three big asamkya eons by cultivating the prajana wisdom and the auxiliary dharma. If a vessel can be likened to the prajna wisdom (dharma) to carry us over the samsara ocean to the shore of nirvana, then the auxiliary dharma is the sea water to keep up moving forward smoothly.

For the Mahayana practitioners, to gradually experience the functional distinction of the Alayavijnana and transform the countless seeds of deeds which are stored in the Alayavijnana are the pivotal core for Buddhist cultivation; those are also the reasons why it takes such a long period of time to complete the Bodhi way. Mind you, the targets to be transformed are the stored seeds in the Alayavijnana, not the Alayavijnana self. The fact is that it is impossible to change or transform the “everlasting and indestructible” Buddha nature whatsoever.

For the Hinayana practitioners, they aim to reach the state of nirvana so that they will not expect to have any more rebirth in the future; in this way, the auxiliary dharma cultivation is not important for them. It is more important for them to “scratch the surface,” concentrating on the speeches and deeds, and not to create new negative karma. They have trust in the Buddha’s teachings that everyone innately possesses an everlasting Buddha nature, yet they do not go any deeper to uncover or to comprehend It.

The auxiliary dharma is in daily life, in fact, everyone has been working rather enough on the Buddhist auxiliary dharma before (in the past lives), otherwise one could not have the chance to browse on this thread or even bother to read this subject.

[Buddhism]

...; hopefully everybody's Buddha nature would be awakened, in time.

Adikarmika, my lady, you could have easily refuted this statement by using my other earlier posts.

As my earlier posts stated several times, the Buddha nature does not belong to any of the eighteen sense-realms (dhatavahs) 十八界*; its characteristics consist of neither-seeing-nor-hearing [no sensation functions] and neither-perceiving-nor-knowing [no logical thought or understanding], etc; in short, it does not respond to the six sense-objects 不與六塵相應. As such, it is also to verify its eternal state of the middle-way; though, it does have its functional distinctions which co-exist with the five aggregates of sentient beings.

So the Buddha nature cannot be awakened, neither can it be destructed. That is the reason why the "Diamond Sutra" is called - to depict its indestructible nature of everybody's Alayavijnana. It should be an individual’s perceiving mind (the sixth vijnana 意識) that is to be awakened to uncover the Alayavijnana; the Buddhist cultivation is to utilize the perceiving mind to observe and uncover the innately existing object – the Alayavijnana.

*Eighteen sense-realms: The eighteen different functions of a sentient being to get the information from the world, i.e., six sense-objects (六塵), six sense-roots (六根), and six vijnanas (六識)

[Isha]

I have a question:

Why do some people think that to attain Buddha nature/enlightenment one has to gobble up tons of ambiguous literature?

[Confuzius]

Wow, this thread is still going....

[Alkibiades]

I have a question:

Why do some people think that to attain Buddha nature/enlightenment one has to gobble up tons of ambiguous literature?

Actually, I have an interesting book you might want to read about that.

[Isha]

Wow, this thread is still going....

We have Prof. Buddhism who likes to lecture about .. well whatever he thinks about Buddha.