Why drive to a store, when you can walk?

JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 6:32 am Off topic!
Go start a new thread to argue about whatever you want,

Good point. Thanks for sharing your experience here.

Sure, but I'm curious as to why you quoted the section about escape. You were looking for sutta reference about the dangers of sensuality and other things mentioned earlier right? The danger is obviously what is escaped. If the escape is abandoning craving & lust then obviously these are the da...

This sutta speaks of the gratification, danger, and escape of sensual pleasures, as well as other things. http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/middle-length-discourses-buddha/selections/middle-length-discourses-13-mahadukkhakkhandha-sutta OK. Thanks. And what, bhikkhus, is the escape...? It is the remova...

There is gratification in lay life that you enumerate in your post with many examples - sensual pleasures that give much joy and satisfaction Which sensual pleasures that give much joy and satisfaction? Thanks but then there is the danger as well: old age, sickness, death, the impermanence of all a...

Greetings, Imo, young monks should not call themselves Bhante nor should be called Bhante. Technically bhante is a term of address akin to "sir", so should only be used when actually speaking to a bhikkhu, not about one. Thus, the name "Bhante [such-and-such]" doesn't really mak...

Thank you Bhante.

JohnK wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:16 pm Nice summary and putting the task into context.

Thanks. Good point on the metta cultivation aspect as well.

To escape this endless cycle, we must cut this chain, so the question becomes: where and how do we cut it? The Four Noble Truths contain the answer. Dukkha is clinging to the aggregates as "me, mine myself". The cause for this clinging to the aggregates is craving, which is the second Nob...

Thanks Bodom. I'm a fan of the other page that doesn't post as often too. Nice to see the new page.

Awesome, thanks for recording and posting this! What a time to be alive. Dhamma from thousands of miles away at the click of a button.

Happy birthday!

Another Ajahn Chah story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtCkXFVcEs#t=12m07s

Cool, thanks for the update.