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RE: The Ten Stages of the Mahayana Bodhisattva Path
My first Dharma teacher is Mahayana and I took my Bodhisattva vow before I went on my first meditation retreat with my Theravada meditation teacher SN Goenka. I studied both vehicles...one is not better than the other, they compliment each other in my opinion.
@reddust,
My dear friend, I don't know in deep, but these two teachings has a lot of differences! I heard Therawada is a pure Buddhism and Sri Lanka is one of the country which has this pure Buddhism!
This is what I heard and never compared these two teachings before.
Cheers~
Theravada and Mahayana are different, I didn't say they weren't, I did say they compliment each other...
One is not better than the other....I have met saintly people in all three Buddhist traditions and I have met a lot of ignorance and hatred regarding whose school is the best...I have had to argue the points in Buddhist schools differences ad infinitum when I worked as a moderator on a Buddhist social site called e-sangha. I won't argue the points anymore because I still am working on the basics, like letting go of my negative conditioning, which all schools address through hundreds of teachings in sutas and sutras and meditation techniques, all are the same but delivered differently depending on the group or individuals conditioning...hehehe <3
I've had to argue scholars with Ph.D's in the field of Buddhist scholarship...oh the headaches the well educated have given me...hahahah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Buddhism