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by AgarikaJ
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
Replies: 89
Views: 6956

Re: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity

Just because current Indians have a certain look, doesn't necessarily mean all Indians 2,600 years ago looked the same. Nor does it mean they looked different; we can't know for sure. I actually quite enjoy that we do not know how the Buddha looked like, because in this modern time, where ethnicity...
by AgarikaJ
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Help me please
Replies: 25
Views: 3205

Re: Help me please

https://www.dharmawheel.net/ For mantras, magics related stuffs in Buddhism. I do not think that the OP needs to stray as far away as tantric Vajrayana Buddhism to find help against spells. Theravada has quite a lot of it to fill any need the original poster could have, ranging from Sak Yant tattoo...
by AgarikaJ
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:44 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 66
Views: 3742

Re: Re:

And something quite human becomes visible when I hear this talk: the Ajahns assertion, that in his time at Wat Pa Nanachat, such questioning for a reason why to do things a certain way never happened. I have read enough accounts of people who also were there, at exactly his time, and the questionin...
by AgarikaJ
Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:57 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
Replies: 89
Views: 6956

Re: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity

Just because current Indians have a certain look, doesn't necessarily mean all Indians 2,600 years ago looked the same. Nor does it mean they looked different; we can't know for sure. I actually quite enjoy that we do not know how the Buddha looked like, because in this modern time, where ethnicity...
by AgarikaJ
Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: How to cure a headache
Replies: 11
Views: 934

Re: How to cure a headache

Hello i discovered is also helpful taking a shower with warm water, shampoo and soap, to cure the headache. :anjali: The reason for this is, that the warmth is working as a muscle relaxant. Headache, in our modern western bodies, is very often created by cramped muscles between shoulder and neck, w...
by AgarikaJ
Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 66
Views: 3742

Re:

It may be possible that he is doing this as a teaching exercise in forcing monks to think. Buddha did similar things with stubborn monks. It may be unfortunate this video was made, as the subject may be meant for local consumption. I also feel that it is a talk which should have better be held with...
by AgarikaJ
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva, praying to deities etc
Replies: 17
Views: 1261

Re: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva, praying to deities etc

Ervin wrote: Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:20 amThe last one
Cappuccino is known to be short to a fault in his answers, but never sarcastic ever.
by AgarikaJ
Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Meditation and Cannabis
Replies: 125
Views: 14257

Re: Meditation and Cannabis

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but anyone using cannabis at any of the 10 or so monasteries I've stayed at (Thai, Sri Lankan, and Cambodian monasteries), would immediately be asked to leave. They have almost zero tolerance for that. Maybe there's a place for cannabis in Buddhism, but it's surely no...
by AgarikaJ
Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:55 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Trans monk and precepts
Replies: 104
Views: 5983

Re: Trans monk and precepts

If a woman transitions to a msn but does not get surgery can he ordain as a bhikku? I believe bhikkunis must follow extra precepts and be somewhat subservient to bhikkus, is this acceptable in Theravada? Is there any real-world example behind this question? While it might be entertaining to discuss...
by AgarikaJ
Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:55 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Giving robes
Replies: 7
Views: 1147

Re: Giving robes

Hello i want to ask a question, How do people get the robes to give to the buddhist monks? Do they create them from scratch or do they Buy them? I live in non buddhist country but i wish in the future to give some robes. :namaste: In which country are you? Here in Germany, we have quite a suprising...
by AgarikaJ
Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:10 am
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Is smoking tobacco/ e-ciggarettes a breach of the 5th precept?
Replies: 59
Views: 18733

Re: Is smoking tobacco/ e-ciggarettes a breach of the 5th precept?

I have read on this forum that smoking tobacco ciggarettes is not a breach of the 5th precept. Others disagree. Is smoking tobacco a breach of the 5th precept or not? How about e-ciggarettes (vaping)? The literalists (and I am one) say that it is not a breach of the fifth precept. The fifth precept...
by AgarikaJ
Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Does this breaks the 3rd precept?
Replies: 58
Views: 5806

Re: Does this breaks the 3rd precept?

Let me ask you question, If you know directly from your own knowledge that someone is plainly wrong and teaching adhamma as saddhamma, do you still venerate them blindly? As I said you are free to venerate anyone, please don't ask me do the same. Because I need to verify all, can't follow blindly a...
by AgarikaJ
Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:35 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Heartbeat distraction
Replies: 19
Views: 1225

Re: Heartbeat distraction

I'm a fairly new meditator and often times when I sit, my heartbeat becomes a distraction when trying to focus on the breath. I can feel and hear every beat. If there is background noise, I don't notice as much, but it is still affecting my attention. Any suggestions on how to work around this so i...
by AgarikaJ
Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:56 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Utility of Abhidhamma
Replies: 20
Views: 1178

Re: The Utility of Abhidhamma

I think we can use Abhidhamma to clarify or elaborate on Sutta's teaching. To me, it is like a systematic presentation of the Buddha. It is impossible to answer some of Biginner's questions unless you have some Abhidhamma knowledge hence I consider it as a teaching aide too. I personally do not thi...
by AgarikaJ
Sun Nov 05, 2023 12:28 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: I just wanted to be a Paccekabuddha …
Replies: 53
Views: 2941

Re: I just wanted to be a Paccekabuddha …

There are very few Buddhas in the world at the present moment. Even in the Lotus Sutra it is stated there will be eons between eons as Shakyamuni's initial disciples become Enlightened as Buddhas one by one. Yet there are countless Arhats, Voice-hearers, and Bodhisattvas. There is a grand of a diff...