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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:59 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: How do I become a nun?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 631
Re: How do I become a nun?
I also suggest asking on Suttacentral. They have some nuns there who are happy to answer questions like this. https://discourse.suttacentral.net/
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: First time retreat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 427
Re: First time retreat
He Jack. Make sure you take a watch or clock, so you can turn off your phone and give the SIM card to someone else who will give it back to you AFTER THE RETREAT.
Internet and communication destroys retreats for yourself. It is the best invention for keeping people in samsara.
Internet and communication destroys retreats for yourself. It is the best invention for keeping people in samsara.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934) THE BUDDHA AS A GIANT KAIJU! The Great Buddha Arrival (大佛廻國, Daibutsu Kaikoku)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 261
Re: Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934) THE BUDDHA AS A GIANT KAIJU! The Great Buddha Arrival (大佛廻國, Daibutsu Kaikoku)
That's cool. I often have a daydream during meditation, of the huge metal Buddha coming to life at the front of the dhamma hall, and walking straight through the wall, tearing through the wood like it was paper. It's a pretty Buddha, but I don't want it to come to life like a hideous steel golem.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
- Replies: 29
- Views: 978
Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
You need to clarify what you mean by Vipassana jhana. There are three things called by "jhana"... Sutta Jhana, Vipassana jhana, and also visuddhimagga/commentarial jhana.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:45 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Trailer for a documentary about Buddha Bodhivana Monastery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 192
Re: Trailer for a documentary about Buddha Bodhivana Monastery
Deep in the forest... Two hundred metres from the #683 bus terminus, and just around the corner from the Iron Brook Donkey Farm.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Disturbing reports of those who were almost dead and came back
- Replies: 3
- Views: 176
Re: Disturbing reports of those who were almost dead and came back
Wow, the ones that report Hellish experiences... i hope those people started to lead better lives!
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Thailand monasteries supportive of Early Buddhist Text views
- Replies: 4
- Views: 339
Re: Thailand monasteries supportive of Early Buddhist Text views
Your can remove Wat Marp Jan from your list. They strongly support commentarial interpretation and ignore the early texts when they conflict with the way tradition and commentary says things should be done.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: BMC is Unorthodox
- Replies: 5
- Views: 610
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How can lay people lessen our obsession with sensual pleasure?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 587
Re: How can lay people lessen our obsession with sensual pleasure?
When you meditate, aware of pleasant and unpleasant sensations and feeling tones, you practice not reacting and accepting both pleasant and unpleasant with equanimity. You continue doing this for days and weeks and months and years, many thousands of times. And eventually you train yourself to not r...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Are You prepared For an earthquake?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1341
Re: Are You prepared For an earthquake?
We had an earthquake here today at the Wellington monastery, in the middle of morning chanting!. It was just a 4.7, but it was close, only 10km away.
There was a big rumble noise and everything shook. Some things fell off the wall in the workshop.
There was a big rumble noise and everything shook. Some things fell off the wall in the workshop.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Are You prepared For an earthquake?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1341
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Thyroid and ordination
- Replies: 8
- Views: 398
Re: Thyroid and ordination
Is it cheap medicine? Often supporters will offer to pay for it.
In Europe, UK, NZ, Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, usually medicine is given by the government to monks for free or very little money.
In Europe, UK, NZ, Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, usually medicine is given by the government to monks for free or very little money.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3865
Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Maybe. But Nanachat and other western monasteries don't seem to have such problems training westerners.
Maybe it's just Ajahn Martin and his insistence on doing things the way he had to do under Ajahn Maha Boowa.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3865
Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
This reminds me of that old saying: "If everyone else in the monastery is the problem, maybe the problem isn't everyone else. Maybe it's you who is the problem." Or more crudely put by a comedian: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into ass...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3865
Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
24 minutes 31 seconds is where he starts complaining and getting to the subject of leaving and why.