A father of 3kids in a bushy area kills a serpent that enters the house instead of his knowing it is a sin. His motive or cetana is the safety of the children. What is the outcome or weight of his papa karma or cetana.
Need the view as the motive seems to be safety of the kids.

Feel free to comment, but I was only asking for the sutta, if people could recall it. :anjali: As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang...

Another request for help in finding a sutta. I recently heard someone talking about a sutta in which someone asks what is beyond, or on the far side of, compassion (and possible the other brahmaviharas?) I remember reading something like this some time ago. Can anyone recall it, please? But without...

So then shouldn’t we start this path from the position “I claim this body”? The presence of appropriation and ownership is the result of the presence of ignorance, it is not a matter of choice: if there is ignorance, there is appropriation and ownership. Isn’t this the ideology of kamma? Kamma is a...

Sam Vara wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:02 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:12 pm If I don’t own my body…..who does?

In the sense meant by Ajahn Chah, nobody.

The body belongs to the cosmos and its manifestations.
The body is a part of a whole and so is conditioned as detailed in paticcasamuppada.

Originally there was probably a religious significance, relating to the Vedic god. But the term is used in a positive sense elsewhere, not just as some kind of obstacle to be uprooted or overthrown. In Dhp's Arahantavagga, for example, we have: Undisturbed like the earth, Pathavisamo no virujjhati,...

I find these verses to be quite inspiring, as a reminder to not get too lost in debates and discussions. “Here came Kokanada, Pajjunna’s daughter, Beautiful as the gleam of lightning. Venerating the Buddha and the Dhamma, She spoke these verses full of meaning. “Though the Dhamma is of such a natur...

"Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect. " AN 6.63 Are intentions permanent or impermanent? Since they are clearly impermanent, can intentions define a person? To my knowledge, yes. One who has pure intentions are those with kusa...

I think the issue here is the word "owned". We own car and no matter how well we look after it we can't prevent it from deteriorating or breaking down, our body is like this. The problem is that we not only believe we own the body in the way we own a car we identify the body as me, which ...

When you own something you control it. You do whatever you want with it because it's yours. If you can't be in full control, you might notice that then it isn't so true that it's fully yours. To be yours seems to be more like a matter of speak, it works if we put aside the fact that you can't fully...

The noble eightfold path is included under the skandhas. Like every path and every action. I only wish to note here about critsizing the bikkhu Seelavimala (sermoning in video) may have made a mistake or may not have. Yet after listening to the video that his sermon tallied exactly with the sinhala...

The noble eightfold path is included under the skandhas. Like every path and every action. I only wish to note here about critsizing the bikkhu Seelavimala (sermoning in video) may have made a mistake or may not have. Yet after listening to the video that his sermon tallied exactly with the sinhala...

It might help if you clarified what you mean here. There are Theravadan monastic rules about hair length, but I'm not aware of any special significance for lay practitioners. It's not like Sikhism, for example, where kesh or the principle of allowing one's hair to be uncut is a religious duty. From...

There are many others in thousands at least on this earth, trying at least sotapatti , in many parts of the Buddhist world. For one to find who, when and where has achieved that kind of seeing or knowing as such, he must be a loka vidhu . It was only one and only Lord budda that existed a loka vidh...

There are lay people who can reach jhana(s) and samadhi. Who? I'll go and check now. Even a monk nowadays will not have Samma Samadhi. That is achieving NON RETURN at the very least. btw, I'm not talking about fake samadhi. Real Samma Samadhi. There are many others in thousands at least on this ear...