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I started off practising to try and improve myself, to be an easier person to live with, and to find some peace. Now after nearly 3 years in total, I’m not so sure. The goal in the Nikayas isn’t the worldly improvements above, but even though I can say the goal is Cessation Of Existence, I’m not re...

DCM

In my experience doing non Buddhist stuff is a hell of a lot easier, and what got me in a mess in the first place! I've never been able to convince myself that the proverbial eating, drinking, and making merry is the way to go. I've tried very hard to convince myself that it is, but to no avail. It...

DCM

JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:36 pm I practise because life is a relentless grinding nightmare, a hideous lurch from one suffering to the next.

That’s how I feel at the moment, but it SEEMS even practicing is giving the same results right now.

DCM

binocular wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:12 pm
DCM wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:28 pmWhat are you practising for, and why?
Well, I wouldn't say that I'm practising. But that aside, I'm interested in Buddhism because everything else seems too hard to do.

In my experience doing non Buddhist stuff is a hell of a lot easier, and what got me in a mess in the first place!

DCM

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dylanj wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:20 amnibbāna

Why?

DCM

I started off practising to try and improve myself, to be an easier person to live with, and to find some peace. Now after nearly 3 years in total, I’m not so sure. The goal in the Nikayas isn’t the worldly improvements above, but even though I can say the goal is Cessation Of Existence, I’m not rea...

DCM

Yes, less ‘views’ about worldly current affairs which only led to suffering for myself. I used to flick between some nonsense online, but have reduced that to checking soccer news and job searching (both of these are a waste of time), and I am working on eradicating these and focusing 100% on Buddhi...

DCM

That’s true enough! It’s a difficult one to understand, as I’m not sure to what level the ties are cut with their children/ family. Would a monk attend his daughters wedding for example, or help if their son suffered a breakdown? Or would these be the instances of proscribition you mentioned. Would...

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That’s true enough! It’s a difficult one to understand, as I’m not sure to what level the ties are cut with their children/ family. Would a monk attend his daughters wedding for example, or help if their son suffered a breakdown? Or would these be the instances of proscribition you mentioned. Would ...

DCM

Hi Sam, that’s interesting, you don’t hear about it at all. A lot of people in the West would likely view it as some sort of abandonment of family depending on the circumstances I guess.

DCM

Are there any stories of Western lay people renouncing and ordaining when their children have grown and left home?

DCM

Hi Aflatun, I’ve not read as much as you, you’ve probably seen it, but in case you missed it, the questions and answers at the back of ‘Meanings’ by Ven. N.Namaoli on Resistance and Desigantion (P416), offer a good explanation; “Resistance and Designation (R&D) could be described using ‘behaviou...

DCM

Ven. Nanananda says in Nibbana- The Mind Stilled; “"Where name and form As well as resistance and the perception of form Are completely cut off, It is there that the tangle gets snapped." The reference here is to Nibbāna. It is there that the tangle is disen- tangled. The coupling of name-...

DCM

Sorry for my ignorance regarding the Vinaya but I want ensure I do not insult any Monks. Can a Monk be asked and give the answer if they have any preference of books that they would like to read, with the idea to send some books out? Otherwise how would one know what to send? How does this apply the...

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