User:Joshua Jonathan

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. Emptiness is the unborn and undying Buddha-mind. Question: Isn't [It] just empty space? Answer: Originally it is not empty. It is always bright and never obscured. Noem het liefde, noem het leegte Self-restraint and benefiting others With a compassionate mind is the Dharma The main thing is to develop a good heart Merit consists in doing good to others, sin in doing harm to others. A good man is a wise man Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens Being less reactive and more wisely responsive in any situation, you become a light in the world, contributing to less suffering and more happiness and well being for others and yourself. Don’t be cruel. Elvis said it, and it’s true.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him. having nothing—nothing—to do with fame or profit in any shape or form Compassion is the crown of dharma. Neem het leven niet te serieus, je overleeft het toch niet. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. I think that the gist is that the Wikipedian is essentially unfree. Here we are not free to write what we please. Those who thrive upon Wikipedia have long understood that they are not here to serve themselves or their own ideological/religious preferences [...] I don't see my role as a Wikipedian as promoting my own personal preferences. I am not here to proselytize or evangelize. I serve the propagation of academic learning, since this is the main purpose of Wikipedia.

Intro
Hallo,

My main interest is in Buddhism, but I'm also trying to understand other Indian religions, especially Advaita Vedanta and related traditions of "nondualism".

Contrary to most people interested in spirituality, I don't believe that there exists any "transcendental reality," be it God, Buddha-nature, Brahman or The Truth. Religion is inherent to our cognitive make-up, and triggered and modified by socially constructed practices and institutions. This world and life is the "transcendental reality" we're looking for; all the transcendental rest is constructed by ourselves.

Approaches like social constructionism and Madhyamaka offer an alternative to both essentialism and relativism, showing the innate magic of a world which is not frozen in absolute and timeless truths, but is ever-changing and "ingraspable." Yet, Zen, Dzogchen and Shentong also point to groundless awareness, in which this amazing reality appears. But... who or what creates this self-awareness of groundlessness?... "Mind" itself creates this awareness of emptiness, just as it creates the notion of "I." Thus, this luminous, self-aware "nature of mind" is just as empty as this "I"... Karuna and agape, "horizontal transcendence," are the accompanying stance in life, which make life meaningfull. It's a magical world!

Additional pages

 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Wikipedia Library
 * Tip

Subpages

 * Sources
 * Tools ipa ipa
 * Scrapbook
 * Grammar
 * Paraphrasing checklist
 * lettergrootte
 * All subpages

Source-pages

 * Advaita Vedanta and yoga
 * Anubhava
 * Bodhidharma birthplace
 * Breast tax
 * Buddha Birthplace sources and quotes
 * Dravidian migrations
 * Indo-European Migrations
 * Perennialism
 * Raju (Kshatriya) sources
 * Ramana Maharshi and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
 * Roots of Hinduism
 * Self-luminosity
 * Swaminarayan Sampradaya

Christ Myth theory

 * Quotes on the historicity of Jesus
 * Template:Quotes on the historicity of Jesus
 * List of Christ myth proponents

Paul

 * Salvation in Christianity
 * Substitutionary atonement
 * Resurrection of Jesus
 * Early Christianity
 * Christianity in the 1st century
 * Paul the Apostle
 * Paul the Apostle and Jewish Christianity

Tables

 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Timetable of South Asia
 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Periodisation of Hinduism
 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Subschools of Vedanta
 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Dependent origination

Drafts

 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Eastern philosophy

Maps

 * User:Joshua Jonathan/Wanderings of the Buddha

Buddhism

 * Classifications of Buddhist teachings

Zen

 * Academic Zen Research (draft, not finished)
 * Deshan Xuanjian (draft, in progress)
 * Fayan Wenyi (draft, in progress)
 * Takuju Kosen (draft, in progress)
 * "Who is hearing that sound?" (draft, in progress)

India

 * Mutual Modern Spiritual Syncretism
 * India - South Asia nomenclatura
 * Krishna

Spirituality

 * Developmental stages
 * Arthur Versluis
 * Vertical and horizontal transcendence

Merger-proposals

 * Rangtong-Shentong
 * Kuru Kingdom

Clean-up

 * Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (D)
 * Vicara (D)
 * Cetanā (D)
 * Chanda (Buddhism) (D)
 * Kausidya (D)
 * Avidyā (Buddhism) (D)

Various

 * Trance
 * Moheyan / Kamalaśīla
 * Mahamudra
 * Shri Revan Natha Darbar
 * Talk:Subitism
 * Talk:Poltavka culture
 * History of religion - Hinduism

Mentorship

 * Bladesmulti
 * AmritasyaPutra

Wiki-links

 * Derek Parfit

LOL

 * Hindu kingdoms in Syria

recommended websites and blogs

 * (Zen-)Buddhism
 * Ton Lathouwers, Maha Karuna Ch'an website
 * Ton Lathouwers, More than anyone can do, pdf
 * Ton Lathouwers, The Fundamental Koan and the First Vow of the Bodhisattva
 * Maarten Houtman
 * Brad Warner
 * thezensite
 * Soyons Cruels!
 * Stuart Lachs on the shortcomings of 'dharma transmission'
 * Nondualism
 * Emptiness, Buddhist and Beyond
 * Jed McKenna, Non-Dualist Fundamentalism
 * Susan Kahn, The Two Truths of Buddhism and The Emptiness of Emptiness
 * Genetics
 * Gene Expression (Razib Khan)
 * Eurogenes Blog

Deceased Wikipedians

 * Paul Barlow
 * Corinne