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by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?
Replies: 42
Views: 1212

Re: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?

SarathW wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:19 am
santa100 wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:26 am
SarathW wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:17 am Can I have provisional faith if it is not tested all the time?
Hold on, why would you ask other people if it's ok for YOU to have YOUR OWN provisional faith in something? It's your own darn choice. Either you do or you don't.
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by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:26 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?
Replies: 42
Views: 1212

Re: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?

SarathW wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:17 am Can I have provisional faith if it is not tested all the time?
Hold on, why would you ask other people if it's ok for YOU to have YOUR OWN provisional faith in something? It's your own darn choice. Either you do or you don't.
by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:41 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Trans monk and precepts
Replies: 103
Views: 5772

Re: Trans monk and precepts

thepea wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:47 am It’s nothing like that. We are discussing those who castrate themselves surgically or through medication.
Which I've already exposed your deliberate distortion of the Buddha's Vinaya in my post above
by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:26 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?
Replies: 42
Views: 1212

Re: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?

Thanks. So what make you faithful to something? Why someone can't have faith on Abidhamma? At least some level of "provisional" faith not absolute ZERO? Can we have some provisional faith on creator God? But on what ground? You already knew I'm the one who has provisional faith in the Ti-...
by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:23 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Trans monk and precepts
Replies: 103
Views: 5772

Re: Trans monk and precepts

The trans does seem to be strongly identified with the flesh’s sexual orientation. Perhaps more so than men or women who accept their bodies sex. Imagine if you utter the exact same phrase above to your co-workers at work? Chances are pretty good they'd kick your sorry behind out of the door for ha...
by santa100
Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?
Replies: 42
Views: 1212

Re: How can I accept or reject something if I don't know?

How can I accept or reject something if I don't know? Some examples: How can I accept there is rebirth or Nibbana? How can I accept there is a creator God? How can I reject Abhidhamma? That's easy for #1 and #2. For someone who's been on DW with ~ 20,600 posts, not on some Atheist or Christian foru...
by santa100
Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:24 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Trans monk and precepts
Replies: 103
Views: 5772

Re: Trans monk and precepts

The castration issue is the one that segregates the current “trans” movement as once an individual begins hormone therapy or has surgery they cannot ordain. This is a vinaya truth. And you are actively distorting the Vinaya truth. Notice the exact wording from the Source: The prohibition for abnorm...
by santa100
Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Praying and sending metta
Replies: 15
Views: 732

Re: Praying and sending metta

Is it a traditional Theravada practice to "send metta" to specific people or animals who are suffering? Are there teachings of the Buddha which point to the practice of sending metta to others having an actual impact on their situation? It seems an awful lot like praying or superstitious ...
by santa100
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Candana Bhikkhu's new video 'Goenka Cult' vs The Dhamma
Replies: 101
Views: 6438

Re: Candana Bhikkhu's new video 'Goenka Cult' vs The Dhamma

Whats the difference between a cult and lets say theravada per se? Not sure if there's a single cult leader out there who's ever uttered something similar to the teaching below: "So, as I said, Kalamas: 'Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by in...
by santa100
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:43 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?
Replies: 24
Views: 1702

Re: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?

Should one see the positive rebirths as places where one could more easily reach Nibbâna? Otherwise this might be a case of a person who is good at taking criticism, gets reborn as a beautiful person, gains success in the world due to that and grows more attached to the world - all thanks to a Kamm...
by santa100
Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:10 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?
Replies: 24
Views: 1702

Re: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?

Should one see the positive rebirths as places where one could more easily reach Nibbâna? Otherwise this might be a case of a person who is good at taking criticism, gets reborn as a beautiful person, gains success in the world due to that and grows more attached to the world - all thanks to a Kamm...
by santa100
Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:12 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?
Replies: 24
Views: 1702

Re: Question: does Buddhism espouse determinism/destiny?

It is for me a bit difficult to reconcile this causal, impersonal and amoral model of Kamma where more grasping lead to graspful rebirths compared to this heavily moralizing model of Thanissaro Bhikkhu - it is not immediately clear to me why being stingy would lead to me being reborn poor rather th...
by santa100
Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:04 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Why five cords and not six cords of sense pleasure?
Replies: 13
Views: 500

Re: Why five cords and not six cords of sense pleasure?

Since there are six sense bases?;one can also fantasise in the mind to derive pleasure right? Sure. The Five Cords are just a subset of all sense pleasure, but they're also the coarsest and most pronounced. “Having approached you, we ask a question Of the slender hero with antelope calves, Greedles...
by santa100
Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:47 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Mecca was initially started by a Buddhist monk?
Replies: 13
Views: 957

Re: Mecca was initially started by a Buddhist monk?

One of the very learned and famous Sri Lankan Buddhist monks said that Mecca (Makutarama as per Buddhist history) was initially started by a Buddhist monk... ...According to him, Punnaa Bhikkhu went to Sunnaparantha (now Arab) to spread the Buddhism. As always, even a "very learned and famous&...
by santa100
Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Where do the devas live?
Replies: 31
Views: 1195

Re: Where do the devas live?

. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/index.html As I understood, devas live in Sagga. However, in the Pataligama Sutta, it is stated that some of them live in Patali village. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.8.06.than.html The Blessed One, with the divine eye — purifi...