Haha, Fede your answer made me laugh.
... I am somewhat uncomfortable with knowing that it's possible I might go see a transplant doctor for a checkup who'd feel tempted to carve me up to save the other 4 people on the table
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- Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Can killing be acceptable in Buddhism?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8681
Re: qi gong
I don't know how accurate this is, but there is the catchphrase that the Chinese practice Confucianism in public, Taoism at home, and Buddhism at death. Maybe once upon a time, but with the Communist revolution I think these sorts of concepts fell out of favor. .... I wonder how many actively pract...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:22 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4878
Re: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
This question is interesting for me. The first thing I did was googling "pasada". So the first thing I'd recommend you in order to develop pasada is reading this: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/affirming.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:22 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4878
Re: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
Thanks all for the replies so far; amtross, your links are very interesting and I plan on reading them more carefully soon. Why do you need to cultivate anything, if, according to your view, everyone will end up the same and quite soon? ,) (And then you will reap the fruit of that good karma in a la...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4878
How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
It seems that many people come to Buddhism after tasting samvega, or through disillusionment to attachments of the world. But, to counteract samvega, we are supposed to develop pasada, or else samvega leads to despair and suicide seems like a reasonable way out of suffering. In this day and age, des...
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Your Favourite Sutta for Lay Practice?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4343
Re: Your Favourite Sutta for Lay Practice?
Definitely these: Sigalovada Sutta: The Discourse to Sigala http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.31.0.nara.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This sutta describes in depth the virtue to be developed by the householder. The first time I read the section in there a...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:42 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: How can we have compassion for child abusers?
- Replies: 99
- Views: 15240
Re: How can we have compassion for child abusers?
Hi, I'm new to this board, but this is a topic that I've spend a lot of time thinking about so I thought I would share the fruits of that contemplation with others in case they may be useful to anyone. Here are some concrete ways I have been able to have compassion towards child abusers: By recogniz...