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**Jasonstawnosaa** · 01-08-2012, 11:38 PM

If we leave mosquitoes (and other animals) out since animals are not capable of grasping dhamma, I think the portion of the human population who can understand dhamma is greater than those who cannot so it is definitely not minute.

1. What does equanimity mean to you with regard to sentient beings? Why leave 99.9999% of them out of the mix? Because they are less less equal than humans?

2. I respectfully disagree with you regarding humans. Again it's based on the "randomness of nature" argument, which is not my theory. Based on this theory, virtually all humans will never have the opportunity to practice the teachings of the Buddha at the level needed for actual liberation and most will never hear the dharma taught, period. I provided many reasons why not. You can say that a child born in Afghanistan to Islamic fundamentalist parents or virtually all non-asian kids born in my country, can practice the dharma just like the one whose parents are rich dharma practitioner. Yes they can. No they won't, because of causes and conditions having nothing to do with their own efforts. It's all that "randomness of nature"; they simply won't hear the dharma, for the most part, and a small number of other will hear it; and that small number will contain a tiny fraction of practitioners who actually are able to obtain high realizations---because it takes tremendous effort and you need to have faith in the result (you have to believe it will work) for you to spend 4-6 or more hours per day doing it.

There are diamonds located in the earth so everyone can have a diamond too. Those who find them are precious few. Those who actually practice the dharma to the end, to release, are extremely rare and worthy of great praise. The rest of us are projected into this universe in a trajectory that probably won't encounter the dharma at all and, if we do, we probably can't achieve all the results in this life. Just ask 99.9% of the people in Thailand. Randomness of nature insures that they won't achieve arahant status in this lifetime.

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Jasonstawnosaa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	If we leave mosquitoes (and other animals) out since animals are not capable of grasping dhamma, I think the portion of the human population who can understand dhamma is greater than those who cannot so it is definitely not minute. 1. What does equanimity mean to you with regard to sentient beings? Why leave 99.9999% of them out of the mix? Because they are less less equal than humans? 2. I respectfully disagree with you regarding humans. Again it's based on the "randomness of nature" argument, which is not my theory. Based on this theory, virtually all humans will never have the opportunity to practice the teachings of the Buddha at the level needed for actual liberation and most will never hear the dharma taught, period. I provided many reasons why not. You can say that a child born in Afghanistan to Islamic fundamentalist parents or virtually all non-asian kids born in my country, can practice the dharma just like the one whose parents are rich dharma practitioner. Yes they can. No they won't, because of causes and conditions having nothing to do with their own efforts. It's all that "randomness of nature"; they simply won't hear the dharma, for the most part, and a small number of other will hear it; and that small number will contain a tiny fraction of practitioners who actually are able to obtain high realizations---because it takes tremendous effort and you need to have faith in the result (you have to believe it will work) for you to spend 4-6 or more hours per day doing it. There are diamonds located in the earth so everyone can have a diamond too. Those who find them are precious few. Those who actually practice the dharma to the end, to release, are extremely rare and worthy of great praise. The rest of us are projected into this universe in a trajectory that probably won't encounter the dharma at all and, if we do, we probably can't achieve all the results in this life. Just ask 99.9% of the people in Thailand. Randomness of nature insures that they won't achieve arahant status in this lifetime.
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