Is the nature of the mind is ignorance? Venerable Seelawimala said that the nature of our mind is ignorance and it is not possible to see it. However, we can see the angry mind and the mind with attachment. Even if you are in a highly meditative mental state you still have the ignorance. So how do w...

DNS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:53 pm

SarathW wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:31 pm $300 is the average salary of a Sri Lankan worker for a month!!

Where I live $300 just pays for the monthly internet/cable tv bill.

Funny enough almost every Sri Lankan have a mobile phone in their hand.
It seems they would rather have a mobile phone than eat and buy clothes!

There is an incident where Buddha refuses Dana from a rude person.

What is the Pali word for free will?

$300 is the average salary of a Sri Lankan worker for a month!!


I found when I started donating I started to get rich.
It is a gamble if you donate to make you more rich.

MN 56. MN56 seems to be presenting a hypothetical scenario rather than an actual case: “What do you think, householder? Suppose an ascetic or brahmin with psychic power, who has achieved mastery of the mind, were to come along and say: ‘I will reduce Nāḷandā to ashes with a single malevolent act of...

I have never seen a monastery with 500 monks.
Nowadays you do not need a real place to make a movie.
Perhaps you can film a monastery with one monk and video copy to look like 500.
I am sick and tired of seeing videos edited youtube videos.

But another Sutta is talking about another recluse using his supernormal powers to destroy a village.

My suggestion to you is to study Tipitaka and familiarise yourself with it.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/

Yes, there are a few Sutta's about misusing supernormal powers.
There is a story about why Buddha prohibited monks from exercising supernormal powers.

Please listen to the Dhamma talk by the monks in this place.

viewtopic.php?t=43691&start=75

I have been to Sumathipala Aranya for a one-day meditation.
There are a lot of foreign monks living there and they are very good.

I suggest you go there first and spend some time there.

https://www.sumathiarana.com/

Yes it is idle chatter but it is not breaking the precepts unless you are an eight preceptor. However even for a five preceptor too much idle chatter to be avoided. In a conventional reality we have to follow the good social norms like asking how you are etc. Even Buddha used have this sort of frie...

Yes it is idle chatter but it is not breaking the precepts unless you are an eight preceptor. However even for a five preceptor too much idle chatter to be avoided. In a conventional reality we have to follow the good social norms like asking how you are etc. Even Buddha used have this sort of frien...