Dhamma Wheel

Dhamma is more important than Vinaya. Vinaya, interpreted differently or wrongly understood, has created divisions like Dhammayut and Mahānikāya, and many other nikāyas in each Buddhist country. The Kosambī dispute was started over a fine point of Vinaya. A Dhamma master used the latrine and forget ...

What is Stable Morality? The moral conduct that culminates in the attainment of path consciousness is called stable morality. Morality is a supporting condition for the path. With the attainment of the path, morality becomes stable and irreversible. From this time onwards, a person will not kill an...

15. Impossible (A.i.26) 268. “It is impossible, monks, it cannot happen that one endowed with right-view¹ could regard any formation as permanent. That is not possible. However, it is possible, monks, that an ordinary person could regard any formation as permanent. That is possible.” 269. “It is im...

Note: Venerable. Your translation has not translated paññāya but says: Yathārūpāya cānanda, paññāya isidatto samannāgato ahosi tathārūpāya paññāya purāṇo samannāgato abhavissa, nayidha isidatto purāṇassa gatimpi aññassa. If Purāṇa were endowed with the kind of morality possessed by Isidatta, Ānanda...

So, what to conclude from that fact? The grandfather did not lead a celibate life, but progressed just as well as his son, who was celibate. So, if you really want to progress on the path, celibacy is not essential. “Here, Ānanda, a certain individual is very lustful. He knows the liberation of the...

The Uposatha Sutta given to Visākhā also gives the lifespans of the deities. This matches with the chart of the 31 Planes of Existence

Do Not Judge Others.

Migasālā's father and grandfather both attained Tusita heaven and were declared as Once-returners by the Blessed One. One was celibate, the other was not.

Greeting Bhante, I think it’s fair for monastics to talk about fair taxation. As you say, Ven. Sujato sadly sounded like he was calling for something else. I think it is OK for monastics to express an opinion on pretty much any topic, without being told that it is animal chatter. It all depends on ...

To return to the underlying cause of the issues — the uneven distribution of wealth — here are some figures on tax bands in the US from 1952-53. The source is from someone who writes on American history. Taxable income after deductions 23 brackets consolidated to 13. Figures in 2015 dollars, adjuste...

See Lāḷudāyī Thera.

due to the third factor of "condoning or permitting" Can you please advise if this factor is derived from Sutta, Vinaya &/or commentary? From Sutta. Pāṇātipātī Suttaṃ 264. “Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṃ nikkhitto evaṃ niraye. Katamehi catūhi? Attanā ca pāṇātipātī hoti, parañca...

Killer of Mr Floyd appears in court on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Derek Chauvin knelt on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. The second-degree murder charge is one of unintentional murder, which is a contradiction in itself, but the law does not always align with Dhamma/...

The Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka was updated in May 2020 with some corrections to the texts.

Hopefully people don’t suddenly rush to “racism”’as being the answer as to why BAME folk are dying from COVID-19, but I think we are getting there. From what I have read on the virus, the reason that mortality rates of Black and Asian victims is due to comorbidities: Vitamin D deficiencies, Hyperte...

It is simply (as I said) "interesting", since on one hand you advance "social justice" issues (in contrast to Dhammic justice issues, or blind justice issues) through your focus on race and race relations (i.e. the Cultural Marxist claptrap that others are somehow accountable for our bad life choic...