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- Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:18 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Renouncing my admin & moderator roles at Dhamma Wheel
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3746
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Only Buddhas should be our foremost Teachers in all circumstances?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 827
Re: Only Buddhas should be our foremost Teachers in all circumstances?
Some people assert that the Dhamma was invisible to most before the advent of Gautama. So even those highly prospective Learners may have been forced to have a Teacher other than Buddha. And there may be a time like that again. I am just trying to clarify what is thought is meant by this rule. As f...
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: how much is enough
- Replies: 240
- Views: 10260
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: how much is enough
- Replies: 240
- Views: 10260
Re: how much is enough
Your suttas do not definitively state that a sotapanna cannot kill. Only things I’ve read that a sotapanna definitively cannot kill are their mother, father and arahant. I also draw the same conclusion from the suttas. But maybe to try to get back to topic: How much killing is enough to stop? (I do...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:07 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
This sounds irrelevant; a false equivalency. I read encouraging abortion is fatal for a monk. You are correct, it is a Parajaka offence, typically monks do not meddle with the sexual/familty lives of householders. Hence the reference to marriage ceremonies, monks also do not east meat if they have ...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:50 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
So if you are saying abortion is ok for non Buddhists then the OP's decision is simple, either don't become a Buddhist, or become a Buddhist and be very careful not to cause an unwanted pregnancy nor become a medical professional in an abortion clinic. These are not enabling ideas, rather they are ...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:20 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
Why don't you address what I said about the millions of potential people who never had the chance to even be conceived because this woman slept with that man instead of another man? Aren't they important? The question is why you think you are more important than an embryo, even to such an extent th...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:31 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
That's why I wrote "informal poll." Perhaps I should have added "unscientific" to that. Also, note; the majority does not determine what is "right" or true, even if it was a scientific-formal poll. The majority is surely easily swayed by biased formulations of question...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
Watch your language.
According to Buddhist view, you would have been born elsewhere after dying in the womb, which I think would be a deprivation.
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:22 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 3578
Re: Does support of abortion preclude conversion to Buddhism?
Most Buddhists are probably pro-choice. The First Precept states no killing, but there are a variety of views among Buddhists regarding this and some other controversial subjects. An informal poll was done here and most appear to be pro-choice: https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?p=437206#p43...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Can you work off anantarika karma?
- Replies: 790
- Views: 18498
Re: Are hell beings questioned by yama?
Is it possible that Yama can handle cases of psychological instability? For instance if someone kills another person in a state of delusion. The menendez brothers killed their parents, but they believed it was in self defense. You should stop comparing yourself to / identifying yourself with such p...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How does time pass in other realms?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 733
Re: How does time pass in other realms?
I don't understand how mahamogallana killed his parents and then became the Buddha's chief disciple, according to time. Wouldn't he have to suffer for eons in hell? How many eons ago did he kill his parents in that previous life? Do you know that? Is it in the texts? (Even if it is, I doubt that nu...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Can Jesus save people? How?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1601
Re: Can Jesus save people? How?
I am very sure about the point that countless Christians being saved by Jesus from the angry, harsh, destructive and vengeful God. Do you maybe mean that figuratively, that they were "saved" from the belief in such a God, replacing that image with one of a more benevolent God? I'm not sur...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Can you work off anantarika karma?
- Replies: 790
- Views: 18498
Re: Are hell beings questioned by yama?
I read bikkhu bodhi said that there's a difference between an wreckless, impulsive act of rage and premeditated murder. How does this karma work? (*reckless, not wreckless) I don't know. But a premeditated act takes a lot more time where you prepare for it and gather your will, a much more stable a...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How does time pass in other realms?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 733
Re: How does time pass in other realms?
When a person is reborn in heaven or hell, does this happen in earth time? If a person goes to a different realm for 60k years, are those earth years? Are they on earth 60k years later? I don't know. But according to the laws of physics known to humans today (general theory of relativity), space an...