Thank youSam Vara wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:02 pm There are some good articles here:
https://www.abhayagiri.org/books/567-gratitude
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- Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: A question about gratitude (practices/meditations)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
Re: A question about gratitude (practices/meditations)
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: A question about gratitude (practices/meditations)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
A question about gratitude (practices/meditations)
Hiya! Weird coming back to this forum after a few years!
I have a question: I am looking for some sort of gratitude practice/meditation/prayer. And general teachings on gratitude in Buddhism. Any recommendations?
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
I have a question: I am looking for some sort of gratitude practice/meditation/prayer. And general teachings on gratitude in Buddhism. Any recommendations?
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
- Wed May 27, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
- Replies: 203
- Views: 47853
Re: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
I think that kind of prostitution that you would see as a ""harmless priapic pleasures" is unlikely to exist and is purely a hypothetical idea. I think your views here are irresponsible (as are many of the views you expound, as a monk, on a public forum) and that it would be easy for...
- Mon May 25, 2015 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
- Replies: 203
- Views: 47853
Re: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
If the precepts are only about not doing harm to yourself, the whole not killing and not stealing stuff becomes a lot more flexible, I would think? If the precepts are also about not doing harm to others, then I would think they prohibit all but the most carefully researched sex with prostitutes, to...
- Sun May 24, 2015 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
- Replies: 203
- Views: 47853
Re: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
Ok, somewhat pointlessly I am going to sum up my views on prostitution and the use of prostitutes, mostly so I know it has actually been said as no-one else seems to be articulating this view, and then bow out of this thread. Prostitution: - great compassion for the women involved in it who have bee...
- Sun May 24, 2015 9:24 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
- Replies: 203
- Views: 47853
Re: Sexual misconduct and prostitute
As for prostitution, I really don’t understand why so many western Buddhists have this idée fixe about there being something inordinately evil in a man’s paying a woman to have sex with him. That's rooted deep down in the history of christian marriage in Europe since the middle ages. It's not the p...
- Fri May 01, 2015 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Why is Tibetan Buddhism more popular than Theravada in the west?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 14169
Re: Why is Tibetan Buddhism more popular than Theravada in the west?
I'm an atheist but was raised pretty intensely Christian, so manage to have both the scepticism and the longing for the bodhisattva saviour figure :tongue: Thanks for the link, will check it out :smile: Re. cherry picking: I think the idea is you should be consistent and go deep into a practice, rat...
- Fri May 01, 2015 11:01 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Why is Tibetan Buddhism more popular than Theravada in the west?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 14169
Re: Why is Tibetan Buddhism more popular than Theravada in the west?
I wonder if for some westerners coming from a Christian background the idea of the Bodhisattva - merciful beings working to free others - is reassuring, or fulfills some of the emotional wishes that the Jesus figure may fulfill, or saints in Catholic tradition. Green Tara stepping down to help could...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Why Ordain?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5005
Re: Why Ordain?
I sometimes wonder this, and then I think how much I would dislike becoming a nun, and that shows me the value of it - the massive act of renunciation, of severing as many sources of attachment as possible . . . I think that would be much, much harder to do in lay life, and I think it must take enor...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Cats Sleeping On Buddha Statues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2224
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:01 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the Kamma relate to gender differentiation?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5999
Re: What is the Kamma relate to gender differentiation?
Thinking that men are like this and women are like that is always wrong. There is no such thing as women and there is no such thing as men......there are just individual people each being different. chownah :goodpost: Perhaps risky to quote Dogen here but: Before becoming free from delusion, men an...
- Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: This Buddhist Monk Used His Own Practice To Make Peace With Cancer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2670
Re: This Buddhist Monk Used His Own Practice To Make Peace With Cancer
From the article:
Really like that approach.Accepting your fate doesn’t mean that you give up. It means facing your reality. Stand up and fight it. You don’t just give up. When we say we accept our fate that means we face the facts right now and we will deal with it.
- Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the Kamma relate to gender differentiation?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5999
Re: What is the Kamma relate to gender differentiation?
I do not think male is superior to female. Being a human is the most important of all. If both can attain the ultimate goal Nibbana, as Buddhist we can't say male is superior to the female. What is being asserted is the superiority of the indriya, not the person. Thanks for adding that. That makes ...
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:42 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: U.K General Election
- Replies: 108
- Views: 19156
Re: U.K General Election
I'll be voting Green - I actually just joined them. I don't expect them to get in in my area - it's a pretty strong Labour seat by the looks of it - but hey ho.
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: why do we even have to suffer in first place?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2771
Re: why do we even have to suffer in first place?
Unlike the Abrahamic religions, in Buddhism there's no great creator with a plan - there is no 'reason' for suffering, it's just a fact of life. Nobody in particular is saying we 'must' suffer, it just . . . is. Kinda like gravity or the weather.