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by flit07
Sat May 27, 2017 8:58 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Before becoming a forest monk...
Replies: 5
Views: 2455

Re: Before becoming a forest monk...

I have a question too. I'd believe forest monk would be living very much closer to the nature, like sitting on ground soil, sleeping with just a monk's umbrella under a tree with creatures, animals, and potentially harmful ones. How do forest monk cope with that? And any advise to a lay person wishi...
by flit07
Sat May 13, 2017 1:34 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: No big deal!
Replies: 9
Views: 1546

Re: No big deal!

I like the way ronir583's interpreting our Samsaric nature of life. Is it something from the Zen practice? Above all, we live in a real world. We feel pain, pleasure, sadness, happiness. And therefore we have many "ideas" or in the conceptual term "perception". That keeps us very...
by flit07
Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:56 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Info on Wat Dtao Dum - Ajahn Siripanno
Replies: 5
Views: 8500

Re: Info on Wat Dtao Dum - Ajahn Siripanno

I came to know more about Ajahn Siripanno during my stay in WPN last year November. Totally didn't expect him to be there. A laywoman asked if there is a way to catch Ajahn, or to know his whereabout. The replied given was that there is no way to know where he will be. As far as I know, Ajahn told m...
by flit07
Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:33 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What's the point of living?
Replies: 24
Views: 5677

Re: What's the point of living?

When your time is up, it's up. Bye bye. :toast: There is no point to question that. No one knows about rebirth, really. To know it, you must die and come back to life knowing that you were dead before that. That's not going to happen, though some would say otherwise. Those who know rebirth probably ...
by flit07
Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:18 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: My parents are deathly afraid
Replies: 19
Views: 6224

Re: My parents are deathly afraid

Maybe if I could suggest, just forget about Buddhism in books for a while. Open your eyes, see the real world. True Buddhist teaching is reality, and reality is seen when you really see it. Eightfold path, tained mind are concepts. What does tainted mind means, what mind are we talking about? We hav...