- What If You're Wrong About Being Enlightened? (What the Buddha Admitted)
Doug looks at an episode in which a group of monks declared themselves enlightened in the Buddha's presence — sincere, confident, and in some cases wrong — alongside the Vinaya's recognition of overestimated attainment (adhimāna). Drawing…
- Buddhist Training Is Meant to End
Doug asks when Buddhist training is supposed to end, and how anyone would know. Working from the simile of the raft and the Buddha's refusal to appoint a successor — telling the sangha instead to be islands unto themselves — he traces…
- Fake It Till You Make It?
I did an earlier video where I discussed some of the pitfalls of searching for authenticity in our daily lives. One alternative to a direction of authenticity is to pursue a practice of "faking it until you make it". But is this a good…
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Vinaya, Pārājika 4
3 videos discussing Vinaya, Pārājika 4 (Vinaya, Pārājika 4 — overestimating one's attainment (adhimāna)).