Dhamma Wheel

Dear TessaHenley, Mana raised good an proper words, I guess. Maybe something in addition that might be useful: Practice for the Householder (from "A Still forest pool") You have often asked about the path of the householder. Household life is both hard and easy hard to do, easy to understand. It is ...

Anyone have heard about this sutta? Most Buddhist now a day are listening to their Ajahns who have so various opinion about dhamma,don't study much Buddha's words. Thank you leela001, for this wonderful sutta. What do you think, will it help those who don't understand? What do you think can be done...

Hanzze Are you talking in an enviroment where the customs of address of one place in the world is appropriate? You do not need to address me in any way other than by name, particularly a way outside the norm of this environment, it is inappropriate. There is what is given, and what you insert. Sorr...

Take the animal rights activists who try to stop the whale hunters from killing whales. What they are doing is saving lives. This is a virtuous act, but does that make everyone who is not out there saving the whales immoral? I think not. Dear Maarten, have you seen the movie The Cove . This is a ve...

Maybe there are people who choose evil and are enlightened at the same time. It seems as if knowledge would be out of reach for evil people. I disagree. There are evil doctors out there. And there are very good people who weren't capable of finishing primary school. Dear Erwin, that does not realy ...

Just saw this sutta, and it might be useful (a interessting confersation with Mara on this topic): form The Brahma Invitation ... "When this was said, I told Mara the Evil One, 'I know you, Evil One. Don't assume, "He doesn't know me." You are Mara, Evil One. And it's not sympathetic to welfare that...

No need to believe anything, but a little faith in ahead is somehow secure also in developing right view. Only your own experiance will make an end of doubt at least. So even if I would tell you it would not make sence. Better to relay on what the Buddha taught, that is much more secure. If that is...

My Young Oncle Cittasanto, please explain me how things are. Impermanemt, unpersonal, unsatisfactory, conditioned or is this an different case? there are places on earth where layman had addopt may things from Buddhas wisdom and tradtion. For expample form of address. Where I am, its usal to put oth...

I have this question about compassion. What if you have old parent to look after who is depend on you to do things. Because you want to look him after you cannot ordain or practice a lot of meditation. So I see two things 1) You have compassion and want to look after 2) Because of 1, your spiritual...

It was one of the first suttas I ever read. I had two thoughts "Wohh... if such things are pubished, it must be that there are many who understand the Buddhas teaching as this is hard to take" and "Wohh... there will be not many who understand this", it need some time for me to come over this two th...

There is a second pair Mal. On one hand there is the pair of Saddha (faith, let me call it guessing here) and Panna (Wisdom, let me call it experiances here), which like talk needs to be balanced or change constantly (on wich leg one might be actually). Mindfulness is the operator or the judger who ...

If you have freed yourself and weren't a total slave to karma any more wouldn't it be possible to do evil but not suffer the consequences? Thanks Dear Ervin, Technical yes, but why would one like to do it? One who is free from suffering has no desire to do anything. No desire no karma, I guess that...

You are right Mike, it is nothing but pretentious to make an suggestion without being invited to do, without being asked for it. My mistake.

Don't worry my young uncle Cittasanto, just my thought and my faults, they are not lasting. Maybe I will get a little smarter with time. Thanks for your try. Be carefull.

Mike, just take the text, put personal things aside and try to think about it. I don't talk about people you tust and it's not about staying on topic, and it also has nothing to do with any person her. It's simply an suggestion and vision to get the usuals in direction Dhamma-Vinaya and not the Dham...

Dear friends, I like to point out an maybe importand issue in reagard of accumulate good "teachers" in regard of some amount of real knowledge and understanding. Usually even they appear from time to time they are soon on the flight again as far as I had seen on may places. A Bhikkhu or somebody who...

Dear theY, no, that is my bad skill you are doing perfect. Not at all, neither this nor that, but to use food only to maintain the body without taking what is not given, no use to talk about killing or harming that is for everybody logical and also to do not tell others to make it ones use. I just w...

At one point, wouldn't it be better to make a choice? Hi David, why? To be on a set-path, not just picking and choosing the palatable parts and leaving behind the "harder" stuff like precepts, commandments, etc. To master a path, to make progress, rather than getting lost in a thicket of views. Jus...

Yes Mike as told before: "They are, they are. No offense, but just not in regard of the topic and not as a prerequisite to develope virtue for further attainmaints. If they are used as a kind of Bhavana, just be careful that they to not develope wrong views" What Dhamma will you like to focus on, it...

Its also very present for me, I see tousands doing that every Sila-day and continue their ways short after in busniess as usual, even while re-taking then, but they feel lighter in some how when they do it again after that ritual. And you know, its somehow quick done today, we are very mobile. Or d...