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- DariusMonsef, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39Do you have a reason for your continued campaign against COLOURlovers? It is a design and color site, with original content... being posted in the Design category.
Were your parents murdered by a pack of crayola crayons when you were a kid? - suxmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Color hater = downmodded. Colors are safe!
- realmuscle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Buddhism is about compassion. Nothing else. That is it's heart. How can it be *****? The world needs more of that.
- felchdonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11OBKenobi = blocked. Spamming comments is a great way to get yourself banned.
Edit: where the hell is my block/ban button? Is this another "improvement" in the new comment system, or something wrong on my end? - ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I don't want to be the one to say it but... I think it was the Black crayon...
- vbsurfer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9And you've been blocked from digg.
- CatalystGhost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"Siddhārtha Gautama is universally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age."
"After 49 days meditating, at the age of 35, he attained Enlightenment; according to some traditions, this occurred approximately in the fifth lunar month, and according to others in the twelfth. Gautama, from then on, was known as the Buddha or "Awakened One." Buddha is also sometimes translated as "The Enlightened One." Often, he is referred to in Buddhism as Shakyamuni Buddha or "The Awakened One of the Shakya Clan.""
Siddhartha WAS the Buddha. However, there have been other, lesser Buddhas. Additionally, it is likely that you are confused by the Hindu teachings about Buddha, which are along the same lines. However, all in all, you are mistaken. - RadiantBeing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You've obviously never done any sort of web or print design. Picking a color palette is not as easy as it sounds.
- psyaeger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The Buddha was simply a human being who claimed to discover a path out of suffering; he claimed no supernatural powers and no knowledge of spirit worlds or god beings. All the traditions and superstitions and various myths that have arisen since the time of the Buddha are likely just local cultural embellishments and nothing more.
As for your statement that Siddhartha Gautama was not The Buddha, I have never heard that. Is this one of those local cultural embellishments? Perhaps something has been lost in translation... - DDarkfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6@Genetico
You are referring to "Siddharta" by Herman Hesse, which is just a story. The fact of the matter is, the buddha that today is considered as THE buddha (because a buddha is just an enlightened being and according to buddhism there have been many over the ages) was actually Siddharta Gautama (Herman Hesse just calls him GOTAMA) - Arcesius, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7I'm sure you can find someone who knows more than me, but form what I know the orange (ocher) robes are worn by Swamis (renunciates), adherents to a form of asceticism. The great reformer of the Swami order was Adi (first) Shankara, I believe. I suppose he's looked upon as the first Swami. Also, I'm pretty sure the ocher robes have more to do with Hinduism than Buddhism. At least, they're principally an Indian thing. [Disclaimer: I'm not entirely certain about all this.]
- mapkinase, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I guess religion bashing at Digg ends at touchy-feely warm and fuzzy Buddhism. Or, and Judaism of course.
- Gndoab, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Um...yes people can stay alive for mind boggling amounts of time in deep meditation...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bahadur_Bomjon
Also, My room mate happens to be a Seon Zen Master (what are the freaking chances huh?)...He has gone for 30 days without food or drink in meditation....if you ever happen to meet someone who has practiced meditation for a long time (buddhist or non buddhist...it really doesn't matter), you will notice that they are calmer, and more compassionate then the average joe...the more one meditates, the stronger the effect. if you don't believe it try and follow your breath for 2 minutes a day, just counting in and out 1-10....after a week you will without doubt notice a difference in your day to day life - TheOther1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5if you like chicks built like 12 year old boys...
- Blarbo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6spammers SHOULD BE BANNED FROM DIGG!
- psyaeger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4While I too find much of the traditions, rituals and stories of organized Buddhism silly and nothing more than local embellisment, I found the teachings of the Buddha himself interesting, inspiring and not insulting to my intelligence in the least. Primarily, the simple fact that the man who is now called the Buddha never claimed to be anything other than a human being who found a non-supernatural way to greatly lessen suffering led me to consider his ideas serious. Also, I found meditation, especially as introduced through Zen Buddhism (zazen meaning sitting meditation), a supremely powerful tool for investigating one's own mind.
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3you realize that the Buddha was Indian. Regardless of what they equate it with now, he was both Indian and principally lectured throughout Northern India. Many of the things from Buddhism come from Hinduism - which is why you'll notice some overlapping. In the same way that Sihkism is a mixture of Islam and Hinduism.
- panzergeist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Why do you need to hide the violence of humanity behind a carefully crafted banner of religion? Does it make you sleep better each night?
I'm not going to get into a secular vs. religious war here, and quite frankly, your attempt to start one isn't welcome. I'm a Christian, and I will tell you right now that I don't care if you're a theist, an athiest, deist or worship His Noodly Appendage. I will support and defend your right to (dis)believe whatever you wish until the day I die. We don't have to agree and we don't have to approve of each others' beliefs or lack thereof.
If you don't shove your hate down my throat, I won't jump down yours with an iron fist. I consider that fair. And that goes for my fellow Christians. Now please go before we turn this into a really ugly thread that takes people forever to sift through just to get to the informative posts. - innocentsinner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Scientologist :(
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If there's more to Buddhism, what makes you think you know enough to called it BS? What makes you think the people who called it BS knows enough to justify its name calling?
- coolred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"He has gone for 30 days without food or drink in meditation"
Erm..no. He hasn't. - jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3see, this is the problem with the comment system - to make it usable, you have to show all....but dugg down retards still show at the top. ***** all that. and ***** you old ben (woods) kenobi. sophie vader is going to get you. (if you get that reference, god bless you)
- codenexus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3> > Believing in a God or philosophy does not make it a truth.
> No, that the teachings are real make it truth.
Really? I wonder why it is that there never seems to be any actual evidence that has satisfied me one way or the other.
I think you are mistaking "truth" and "faith". They are fundamentally different things. - kelly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Doubt is necessary as is faith... the same goes with many things.
You can make the same case for the big bang or darwinistic theory for example. Few in this forum allow themselves to allow doubt to come into the picture probably because a divine creator is the logical alternative. With that in mind, there is a considerable amount to these two theories that is merely assumed... or "faith-based." You might as well call them religious theories.
I resent having to pay for THOSE religious theories in public education with my tax dollars of they're not going to present the other theory that has just as much scientific evidence. - kelly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Taking the teachings of the Bible literally (but in context) IS peaceful.
If someone gets angry about it... it can really only be because of a lack of understanding. - smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2nobody is preaching buddhism. colourlovers is a site dedicated to discussing/appreciation of various color palettes found in the world we live in. in this case, it's looking at the colors that arise in buddhist culture and the symbolism/meaning associated with the colors. you don't have to subscribe to a religion to appreciate the artistic beauty in a particular culture. your ranting is completely baseless and just shows how ignorant you are.
- transcendz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is NO reality that you can prove definitely. Nothing's real or exist by itself.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7Buddhism is a subset of the Hindu religion. Buddhism is a way of living life, a code of conduct, a list of ethics.
True Buddhism only exists in a small region in India. What is normally promoted as Buddhism is the original Buddhist philosophy intertwined with the local customs and earlier religions of the region.
All Buddhist religions teach the same philosophy but digress from the fundamentals. The Dalai Lama is the head of a Tibetan sect of Buddhist philosophy and Lamaism. They practice transmigration of the soul and not the original Buddhist concept of the soul. Colour conception in Buddhist philosophy is the same. The colours perceived are spiritual colours and not physical colours.
Life is what you make of it. The average person will die if they don't eat and drink. There are meditation techniques which will put you in a suspended animation state similar to bears hibernating. Dedicate 10 years to strict meditation discipline and you may get there. There is a price you pay. While you are in the meditation trance you are virtually asleep, time is moving on. The choice is yours. Do you do something tangible with your life or do you go into hibernation.
Buddhist monks do not work; their life is sustained by the Buddhist community. In return the community gets spiritual guidance. You can say a free form of social psychology. The price you pay for being a Buddhist monk is no sex, no material possessions and no social life, most important to realise is that you are a social recluse.
You can achieve the same through Christianity, Islam or being an atheist. Believing in a God or philosophy does not make it a truth. Achieving you fullest potential as a human and experiencing life is what counts.
I will put it to you that the highest point of meditation is death. Returning to the source you came from. While you are alive do something with your life. - hydrokool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When one of the English speaking Thai monks at temple explained the colors to me it was quite different. He also wears brown, which I didn't see on that list.
- joebagodonuts, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3 Intolerance is *****. I call ***** on your close minded "my view of the world is the only correct one" attitude.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Numbers in spiritual texts should never be taken literally.
49 is merely a number meant to convey 7x7. Basically it's an ultra intense way of saying the perfection of 7 as found in the 7 celestial bodies of the ancient world or more importantly to this story the 7 chakras. Multiplication of a number is a way of magnifying it's importance and intensity in allegorical stories. Just like how 144 is used to amplify the cyclical 12.
http://zeitgeistmovie.com/ - kelly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"I see plenty of comments critical of buddism"
They seem sparse to me... at least in comparison to news relating to Christianity.
"I think diggers just recognise all religion as false"
The word inclusion of the word "recognize" is rather presumptuous as it suggests these perceptions to be fact.
"and have a very low tolerance for lies"
Which lies would those be? - swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4When you attain the highest level of meditation, then and only then will you be qualified to state whether or not your body can be transformed into pure light. Oh, and here's a hint to get you started - it's a subjective experience, not literally transforming your body into anything
- wageslaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2does not compute. doing yoga isnt prayer to a hindu. your analogy does. not. compute.
Popular purpse of yoga is exercise and stretching; also done for meditation. meditation is also not prayer. - kelly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I wish a could smack all the people that dugg you down.
- donkeyshow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If by: "chicks built like 12 year old boys", you mean no fat chicks. Then yes.
/digg me down - kai05yang, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3right, like how praying has nothing to do with Christianity.
- transcendz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Of course, you're right to speak about the context, but it's not what I meant. I was talking about people getting too orthodoxe with what's been written in their books, who forgot that doubt is always necessary.
- brotherfranciz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, I guess you should have explained yourself from the start. It sounded like you had something against the site rather than against the constant submissions of stuff from the site...
And what's up with the double-posting? Is it a bug or something? - kelly, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Its funny how so many of the middle eastern religions get a proverbial pass from diggers while the mere mention of Christianity evokes uncontrollable spasms from this same group.
Though the perception of Buddhism seems to garner the perception of a peaceful person handing out flowers within airports, their belief system is no less "bizarre" to the average Digg/agnostic/athiest/God hater.
Though Diggers have a hard time accepting it after having been bombarded with massive amounts of news coverage from obscure groups who give Christians a bad name... so much so that it makes it look like the norm.... Christianity is equally as peaceful if not more so.
I wonder if the aforementioned "pass" is given because such middle eastern religions are regarded as "non threatening" because they're not as popular by mainstream society. - there, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"The word inclusion of the word "recognize" is rather presumptuous as it suggests these perceptions to be fact."
The scientific method involves evidence not only conjecture, "wish it were so's", or the agreement of family members who indoctrinate their children with feel good fantasies. The idea that religion can't be disproved is a fallacy of the highest order since religion offers no evidence about God(s) and after life to begin with.
You are saying the equivalent of "it's rather presumptuous of him to suggest unicorns are not real" Or how about ""it's rather presumptuous of him to suggest the clan of 42 blue monkeys from the dimension Grzaccc didn't create the universe" - bizchris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Come on - OBK is not often a spammer, and I'd guess that was more likely because of the comment system suckage.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2while Im not trying to be offensive
whats buddhims got to do with design...
in the technology section
edit Im guessing it has to do with colors in design having a deeper meaning in buddism or something - nocash23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1actually "Genetico 13" I'm pretty sure that Siddhartha was the Buddha. he was one of many incarnations but he was the Buddha. his name was Siddhartha Gautama (Gautama was Siddhartha's family name) thus "we are living in the age of Gautama Buddha". the Buddhism we know today was "created" by him, a sort of compilation of things that he learned from other yogis, ascetics and intense meditation. he was no Brahman as he argued constantly against their ritualistic sacrifices and need for money. he actually helped change their minds about sacrifice.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1dude, how old are you? you've just been trolling in this thread posting inane comments like "***** this," "***** that," "digg is full of noobs and posers," and spamming comments. someone with your lack of maturity shouldn't really be criticizing other people, at least not until you grow up a little.
- vonskippy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6Wow, more breaking news from Colourlovers.com - who'd a thunk it, you mean they continue to come up with more color schemes again and again and again? Someone should let CNN and USAToday know about this.
- antitab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"The only reality is this one."
Actually, there are over six and a half billion realities. Since the mind is the only vessel which can interpret reality, and that interpretation differs with each mind, each mind holds its own equally true and unique reality. - ferrell, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35cRCGy8n54
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