Finally someone speak truth and don't excuse lay people's laziness...
I just discovered Ajahn Nyanamoli channel and it's amazing !
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- Thu Feb 27, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: A short talk for laypeople by Ajahn Nyanamoli
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9039
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:54 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ordination on spot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1794
Re: Ordination on spot
At least 2 month as lay person I think, but try to live several mounth with 8 precepts as lay, see how it is first _/\_
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:51 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Are monks allowed to read books in their kuti?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3284
Re: Are monks allowed to read books in their kuti?
I know some very good and reknown Ajahns who read a lot of books, even fantasy etc, but their wisdom is well established and they need to understand people's needs and lay life to be able to teach them well. So don't worry about that, libraries in monasteries are very rich in all sorts of books. It'...
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Drowsiness
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2697
Re: Drowsiness
Try to reduce amount of information that enter your 6 senses and physical activity like sport.
Your mind and body need to rest a lot because there is too much input information that your brain and body need to digest.
Try metta before sleeping too.
Your mind and body need to rest a lot because there is too much input information that your brain and body need to digest.
Try metta before sleeping too.
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: 5 hindrance remove trick?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3020
Re: 5 hindrance remove trick?
7 Enlightenment Factors :
Mindfulness
Investigation
Energy
Joy
Tranquillity
Concentration
Equanimity
Mindfulness
Investigation
Energy
Joy
Tranquillity
Concentration
Equanimity
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 4:03 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: On the necessity of "going forth"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4607
Re: On the necessity of "going forth"
Hello Questioning_/\_ Iam in the same situation as you and that what i can say: The problem is attachment to form, attachment to feelings, attachment to perceptions, attachment to mental formations, attachment to sense consciousness... But all this is just information floating on the surface, just t...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Extirpating viruses ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1812
Re: Extirpating viruses ?
For an offence you need to see it, if I don't mistake.
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to forgive when the other person continues to harm?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3394
Re: How to forgive when the other person continues to harm?
As say my Teacher, forgive someone means that you will not harm this person in body speech or mind. So if you do not harm this person, you don't wish him suffer, you wish him be free from dukkha (compassion) - so you have already forgave him. But if your question is more about : how can I do not suf...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:47 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are five precepts fulfilled by non-Buddhist complete the Sila (Samma Vaca, Samma Kammantha, Samma Ajeeva) aspect of Nob
- Replies: 2
- Views: 786
Re: Are five precepts fulfilled by non-Buddhist complete the Sila (Samma Vaca, Samma Kammantha, Samma Ajeeva) aspect of
Are five precepts fulfilled by non-Buddhist complete the Sila (Samma Vaca, Samma Kammantha, Samma Ajeeva) aspect of Noble Eightfold Path? N8P is a Dhamma Wheel. When there is lack of one or many "pillars" - there is no wheel so it can't turn. A triangle can not turn, so one can not go to ...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kaleidoscope World - the full meaning of anattā.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1566
Re: Kaleidoscope World - the full meaning of anattā.
Okay. How about good or bad kamma? Is there anything inherently good or bad about our kamma? As I see its about "weight" and "instability". More there is Greed Hatred and Delusion more ego is havy so more we go down, more there is of GHD less our mind is stable so more dukkha th...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kaleidoscope World - the full meaning of anattā.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1566
Re: Kaleidoscope World - the full meaning of anattā.
Nothing is inherently good or bad? What about dukkha and sukha? Dukkha is agitation. Bad is all what lead to agitation. Sukkha is non-agitation. Good is all what lead to non agitation. For instance joy is bad because it have dukkha nature of agitation, that's why it's abandoned in higher jhanas.
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:19 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Refuge is taken in the not-good Dhamma
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6699
Re: Refuge is taken in the not-good Dhamma
Until there is Satipatthana to penetrate the 4NT and develop the N8P - there is Dhamma that lead to the liberation. Buddha Dhamma is a path, it's a practice, an educational system, it's not a doctrine or belief system. What matter is not a doctrine from suttas, what matter is our practice of Satipat...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Why do people like Dancing?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6855
Re: Why do people like Dancing?
Sometimes people say me: i cant dance the music, how do you do it? I always answer that : no need to dance the music, let the music dance you... Personally I like dancing because it's so anatta... It makes you feel free and you can see how music dance your body in a rhythm... Dukkha is resistance, w...
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:40 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the least I should know and practice to realise Nibbana?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5304
Re: What is the least I should know and practice to realise Nibbana?
I think your object, Sarath, is mental formations Agree. But isn't that applied to all of us? In the west countries - yes. But in rural agricultural society it can be the body. But it you know, self identifucation it's so subtile so even if we think not to be attached to the body, actualy we are...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 8:08 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What means with to see things as they really are?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3398
Re: What means with to see things as they really are?
Seeing their constantly changing, complitely unsatisfactory, and conditioned nature... For exemple this body: - it changes constantly - it's complitely unsatisfying and uncomfortable - it obey only to it's conditions and we have no any control over it In meditation you can see there 3 characteristic...