Dhamma Wheel

Hi Chownah,

I apologize for trying to say that your argument was a perversion on someone's intention.

Hi Ron,

Is that limited to the vegans, in this thread?

Ron-The-Elder wrote: And finally: "Do threads like this ever end?"

Hi Ron,

Yes. When will it end?

Also, where do you see the hubris?

chownah wrote: Then don't work in those industries and don't buy anything from any store that sells meat because in shopping there you are supporting the meat industry.
chownah

Hi Chownah,

I don't buy meat. It's that simple. You don't need to try pervert it into something else.

Though you guys seem to have a lowered opinion of Bhante V, I've been reading some of his work and I want to try and see if it works, if that's all right. Hi Ninjbyte, I think the main issue on here that some people have with the bhante is the way he seem to misrepresent (or "puts down") other teac...

What does Ven. Vimalaramsi teach that's different in the metta practice? I'm not familiar with it.

Hi Ninjbyte, The bodhisattva path isn't part of Theravada (though at least one teacher wrote about it, Ven. Ledi Sayadaw)... it is Mahayanist, so you don't need to worry about it. The main goal is just to discern suffering, how it arises and what would lead to its cessation. I think that a metta pra...

And what is right resolve? Being resolved on renunciation, on freedom from ill-will, on harmlessness: This is called right resolve." More on right intention here . ~~~ If you cannot help others directly reach happiness, can you still help yourself? About the link - that's my question... is loving-k...

Actually each of those seventeen moments you mention is a completely new and different consciousness. Different yes, but I don't think completely new. It is constructed out of what was in the previous moment. Or else there would've been a "brand new" birth, with a completely clean slate... not a "r...

You don't waste time thinking about it and find an appropriate place. That is because you have a transient self in control - a master up in your noggin flicking switches. With self abolished an arahant does not have a master up there. Hi No_Mind, I wish I have the time to participate in a deeper wa...

But then the question arises - if the self disappears how does the arahant perform daily tasks. I think the arahant performs daily tasks without relying on any idea of self. For example to put it bluntly - when you are in a bus and you want to pee your self tells you not to pee till you find a rest...

Why the.... I don't even know .... He wouldn't be wearing his robe at night - would he? Why would the robe become messy? And it's highly unlikely a Monk would have this issue (if you will pardon the phrase). Maybe a young novice, or an inexperienced śrāmaṇera would, but I doubt very much a fully-or...

Aki, "western" is a false construction. Seems like it has become a part of your worldview, now... welcome to it. You could learn how to practice with it, or not. Dear Aki, I would like to apologize for this part of my post. It was inappropriate, and uncalled for... so I'm sorry about it. I apprecia...

The Buddha gave the same answer when asked the second time. At the third request, the Buddha told him about the three kinds of miracles which he had known and realized by his own insight. The first was the miracle of psychic power (iddhi patihariya) consisting in the ability to become many and pass...

Hi SarathW,

Thank you for sharing this miracle of a teaching. This is why I have faith.

Viscid wrote:Let us say that these iddhis (Levitation, Teleportation, Precognition) all occur. What is common to them is that they are all obtained through strong meditative accomplishment.

They're also not unique to Dhamma practitioners.

The word nidassana means "pointing at," so the anidassanam means "not pointing at." Nidassana means an illustration, an example, a characteristic, as in to give an illustration of something. Anidassana as a adjective should then mean "unillustatable", something being anidassana meaning we can't ill...

The primary anatta teaching tells us that the five aggregates are not self, and that the twelve ayatanas are not self, but that doesn't tells us whether a self exists or not. So let's talk about another instance where Buddha mentions the self, and seems to talk about it's existence. Buddha states t...

the Dhamma wasn't meant for laity in the first place and thus compromise had to be invented to engage them in it and keep as benefactors of the Order There are many, many suttas directed addressed specifically to laypeople and householders by the Buddha himself. There are suttas where householders ...

And the TOS that we agreed at the point of registration doesn't say either. I can see many other threads and posts that will not point to the cessation of dukkha. Hi Denisa, Since when is recognizing the dukkha and then trying to point out the way to its cessation a bad thing? Where I said "recogni...