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- Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Trans monk and precepts
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5979
Re: Trans monk and precepts
At one time female characteristics appeared on a monk. They told the Buddha. “Monks, I allow that discipleship, that ordination, those years as a monk, to be transferred to the nuns. The monks’ offenses that are in common with the nuns are to be cleared with the nuns. For the monks’ offenses that a...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:40 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Trans monk and precepts
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5979
Re: Trans monk and precepts
This is a hotly debated topic with a variety of views depending on a number of factors. There is no one consensus, at least in the western world.
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:54 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Is a monk who supports abortion is not a monk even if he still wears monk's robes?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3240
Re: Is a monk who supports abortion is not a monk even if he still wears monk's robes?
it’s probably not a good look for a monk to waffle on the ethics of abortion, but in terms of the rule, along with suicide and euthanasia, a monk would have to praise the action and then someone performs the action as a result. which leaves some wiggle room for talking around the subject. This is on...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:38 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: pācittiya 4
- Replies: 7
- Views: 470
Re: pācittiya 4
I've not seen an instance where the Buddha is rebuking the monastics who brought the issue to the Buddha. They are usually described as good monastics that are doing so. That would be quite counterintuitive to the goal to rebuke good monks who bring a legitimate issue that can harm the Buddhasasana,...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:05 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: I disrobed and returned to "normal" life
- Replies: 150
- Views: 51652
Re: I disrobed and returned to "normal" life
Hi James, I've read this thread with great interest, and while I know that ordaining/disrobing are ultimately personal decisions, I think I'm not alone in hoping to hear more about how things have gone for you since disrobing! Best~ I should have stayed a bhikkhu. Now I'm back in worldly life and w...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:01 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Theravada monks insured in medical
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1058
Re: Theravada monks insured in medical
When possible they should move to a country with universal health care. ;-) well technically, the citizens/laity are still supporting that free health care with their labor via taxes and it's typical for more than half of what you earn to be taken by the government for such "free" service...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:52 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: pācittiya 4
- Replies: 7
- Views: 470
Re: pācittiya 4
https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-bu-vb-pc4/en/brahmali?layout=sidebyside&reference=main¬es=asterisk&highlight=true&script=latin This is indeed an interesting one, but some clarifications : At one time when the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery, Tena samaye...
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:34 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Families
- Replies: 3
- Views: 344
Re: Families
It's an interesting thing in the Vinaya that monastics are supposed to "train" families as it were. This is something as a westerner among westerners I've done fairly often and do in my own online community. If you notice among the qualities there is "gives carelessly". There is ...
- Wed May 11, 2022 1:26 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Is it appropriate for a Buddhist monk to sit on the floor while the lay people sitting in a chair?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 718
Re: Is it appropriate for a Buddhist monk to sit on the floor while the lay people sitting in a chair?
going strictly from the rules and ignoring culture, it's fine, so long as that monk is not teaching Dhamma. in the Sekhiya rules of the vinaya a monk should not teach Dhamma to people in a variety of conditions, wearing a hat, holding a weapon, etc, one of which is if the monastic is lower then the ...
- Thu May 05, 2022 2:14 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: How do monks control their sexual desire?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4539
Re: How do monks control their sexual desire?
no one can ever really control their desire, maybe by force of will for short periods, but not in the long term. Ideally the path of practice does it, whether lay person or monastic. I can confirm this from personal experience as I still have almost twice the years of practice as a lay person then I...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:33 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Best age to be a monk?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1447
Re: Best age to be a monk?
whatever age they develop enough wisdom and insight that will allow them to whether the ups and downs, stay ordained, and thrive in the holy life.
- Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Are monks allowed to involve with social services as per Vinaya?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1458
Re: Are monks allowed to involve with social services as per Vinaya?
I know many sri lankan monks with PHDs , and a handful who are involved with social work and other programs. they are basically all city monks, not forest monks, so it makes sense in some ways as an extension of them being stewards of the community that they minister to, not unlike priests in christ...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:47 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Are most Western monks trolls?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3421
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:19 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Are most Western monks trolls?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3421
Re: Are most Western monks trolls?
I’m not sure where to begin with this one. in terms of monks being political and playing to a side, this is an unfortunate thing that happens in the west and Buddhist countries, I see no Buddhist sangha anywhere devoid of people getting wrapped up in playing to a side, whether for material gain or o...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:50 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Alms round in non-Buddhist countries
- Replies: 8
- Views: 869
Re: Alms round in non-Buddhist countries
its all about consistency. Some of the Ajahn Chah lineage monasteries and the hermitage up in Washington state have over the years developed certain routes for going on alms round. other monasteries may have a once a week or every once in a while where they go into town and often a thai or other asi...