Dhamma Wheel

Please provide canonical support for your proposition that one standard for Right Speech is that it is ok to call other people names (such as bullshitter) so long as one does not know it to be untrue. The Buddha often calls someone a "foolish man", how's that any different from calling someone a "b...

“And how does the disciple of the noble ones know moderation in eating? There is the case where the disciple of the noble ones, considering it appropriately, takes his food not playfully, nor for intoxication, nor for putting on bulk, nor for beautification, but simply for the survival & continuanc...

You would need to check the laws of your country to find the answer to this, and things keep on changing in this area:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/3 ... ns-new-law

A pessimistic person, for example, thinks, "Yes, there are all those small pleasures, food, and drink, and parties, and relationships, and work, and surely mindfulness can provide a measure of relaxation or happiness. But what good are all those pleasures, when sooner or later, one has to die and i...

I agree. I need some advise as to when I should stop flossing my teeth. After a certain age the only benefit to be had from flossing is to the aesthetics of your skull's smile after death. So....at what age should I stop? chownah Actually there is little evidence that flossing does any good at all,...

If a person has a nihilistic or pessimistic outlook on life, can (secular) mindfulness meditation work for them? Well if you are so pessimistic that you think MBSR has no chance of relieving your stress, somewhat, I can't see it working as you will not be able to generate the enough "right effort" ...

The Satipatthana sutta (MN 10, DN 22) states both in the introduction and conclusion that mindfulness is the direct path to realisation... No it doesn't, here are my summary notes from Anãlayo Satipatthãna: The Direct Path to Realization: ---------------------- 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE SATIPATTHÃNA SUTT...

I've never heard this before, but that statement immediately strikes me as containing some truth. Of course, I believe that meditation (and its preliminaries) can do this far more effectively than art ever can. Bryan Magee "The Philosophy of Schopenhauer": "Although this sense of harmony and well-b...

"Any beings who are not devoid of passion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of passion, focus with even more passion on things inspiring passion presented by an actor on stage in the midst of a festival. Any beings who are not devoid of aversion to begin with, who are bound by the bond of av...

V. Analayo's keen and broad scholarship is quite noteworthy, if sw dry at times. Perhaps related to that reservation, his interpretations, however, are s/w uneven in quality, and unstable over time. Notably the length to which, in his first Satipatthana book, he goes to justify "direct" for ' ekaya...

Vipassana with a small ’v’ is the central process of the NEP: No it's not, your quote suggests vipassana -bhavana is one "process" in the path. So, indeed, vipissana is not a technique, and it cannot be taught. If vipissana is an apple, then how can an apple be "taught"? It's just there. But, of co...

I'm getting slightly confused by this thread! I find Anãlayo's "Satipatthãna: The Direct Path to Realization", somewhat helpful: https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/direct-path.pdf Also useful is "What Exactly is Vipassana Meditation?" by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: htt...

You could apply the same critique you apply to the no-work hippy-dippy Daoist to the vinaya-observing monastic. Hardly ... alcohol is banned to the monastic, and following the path is hard work! The taoist license to act with "wu wei", to act without "without effort" and "without control", seems a ...

The second is the large (as in, large) framed picture of Kwan Yin serenely standing on the back of a raging dragon he removed from his backpack and his subsequent explanation of how her view (stance? attitude?) might possibly assist me (me, as in, the person who had presented him with this hypothet...

Why do you think all your problems are so connected? Believing that will make it very difficult to develop the will power to defeat them. Baumeister's book, which I mentioned earlier, makes it clear that we have only a small amount of energy to give to will power, and can only solve one (or a few) p...