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- Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Disrespecting Vipassana
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4600
Re: Disrespecting Vipassana
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- Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Commentary and BMC on saṅghādisesa
- Replies: 3
- Views: 151
Re: Commentary and BMC on saṅghādisesa
Thanks for the quote. Thullacaya, grave offense, is the closest to Saṅghādisesa. It is no light offense although of course not as severe as the sanghadisesa. As I read it in the Vibhaṅga (not the Commentary) it indicates that a lustful bhikkhu who mistakes a woman as a transexual - although she is a...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:37 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
- Replies: 445
- Views: 75049
Re: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
Who Deserves Punishment? . Thanks for sharing, venerable. It's increasingly clear to me why this text should be kept out of the Canon. Thankfully only one version has stooped to include it. I'll now make sure to whole-heartedly dissuade others from taking it seriously. If your translation is accura...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:28 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Commentary and BMC on saṅghādisesa
- Replies: 3
- Views: 151
Re: Vinaya Teaching Monasteries in Sri Lanka
[ Are you a monk? If so I'd recommend you bite the bullet and find out. The BMC details the most important ones. Some of the Commentaries' additions are truly ruinous. For example they say that Sg 2 is not committed if there is cloth between you and the woman - i.e. you can molest her as long as sh...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 139
- Views: 7066
Re: Identity View
Nice sutta!MikeRalphKing wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:31 amAt Savatthi. "Bhikkhus, there are these four portions. What
four? The portion of identity, the portion of the origin of
identity, the portion of the cessation of identity, the portion of the
way leading to the cessation of identity. (SN 22.103 Portions)
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 139
- Views: 7066
Re: Identity View
Buddha's comments on no self to Vacchagotta. The scripture is intended for you You have confusion Ignore this at your own peril Mod note : in this classical Theravada forum your self view beliefs are not permitted. Also your post has a flavour of karmic retribution which is against terms of service
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62387
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
I find it difficult to see how anyone who's read the Suttas can take a teacher seriously who says that there is ultimately no mother or father and insists they're just conventions. To me it indicates that they haven't even got mundane right view. Dhammapada Verse 62 . Ignorance Brings Suffering &qu...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1377
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1068
Re: Two Types of Jhāna
I wrote about this last month:
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There are 2 kinds of bhavana (“meditation”),lakkhaṇārammaṇūpanijjhānena, in the dispensation (sasana)......
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1377
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
The meaning(s) of dhamma (nina van Gorkom) https://classicaltheravada.org/t/the-meaning-of-dhamma-by-nina-van-gorkom/25 Conclusion: There are many meanings of dhamma as it is used in different contexts. As we have seen, the aim of the teachings is not merely knowing the texts, but the application of...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 374
Re: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
This quote was from here I think asittakapandaka - A man who gains satisfaction from performing oral sex on another man and from ingesting his semen, and only becomes sexually aroused after ingesting another man's semen. ussuyapandaka - A voyeur, a man who gains sexual satisfaction from watching a m...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 374
Re: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
Yes indeed. Only pandaka's are barred from ordination.retrofuturist wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:27 am Greetings Robert,
Is it your opinion that this is what Classical Theravada endorses?
Metta,
Paul.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 374
Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
My opinion:
If the man is gay with all genitals intact and is , like every gay man I have ever met well able to control any sexual desire, he may well be an asset to the sangha. He might be one who properly understands Dhamma and can, as much as any non-gay man be able to develop evermore insight.
If the man is gay with all genitals intact and is , like every gay man I have ever met well able to control any sexual desire, he may well be an asset to the sangha. He might be one who properly understands Dhamma and can, as much as any non-gay man be able to develop evermore insight.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Yellow Page Teachings - Ajahn Jayasāro
- Replies: 299
- Views: 33520
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1099
Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
And that somehow a few century after Buddha, monks and nuns misunderstood the Buddha, going bat crazy, and started to stare at disk made of earth, fire, or bowl water, etc. These monks are so crazy that they conjure it all up and wrote it down in Abhidhamma, and all the *magga: Patisambhidhamagga, ...