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- Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:59 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Habitforge - tool
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3464
Re: Habitforge - tool
meditation is not measurable Success of meditation has imo two components: 1. The quantity (= time) of practice 2. The quality of practice, what you exactly do with your mind success = quantity * quality Well, at least you can measure the quantity. I agree that time is measurable....I think that th...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:17 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Habitforge - tool
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3464
Re: Habitforge - tool
meditation is not measurableDavid2 wrote:Is doing your daily meditation not important?chownah wrote:Could it be that the important things in life are not measurable?
chownah
chownah
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:11 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Inbreath automatically outbreath
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1240
Re: Inbreath automatically outbreath
We didn't understood eachother. My main language isn't english. I mean't, when i exhale, i will come to a point where i seemingly automatically inhale, but when i reverse this phenomena with inhale=exhale it doesn't happen. Maybe i need to wait longer to fill my lungs or do you think i'm tensed? I ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:07 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Lineage of monks
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13334
Re: Lineage of monks
Actually the point is "Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?" But I am interested in knowing what is the significance of the term Vinaya as applied to a lineage or to monks or nuns...do you have a reference for that? But everyone....please does anyone know &q...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: More teaching nuns are needed
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8765
Re: More teaching nuns are needed
Cilla, Either go to the center or don't go....its up to you....either wear a singlet or don't wear a singlet...its up to you.....it seems that no one is restricting your behavior except you.......does this recent turn of the conversation have anything to do with Buddhism?.....please remind me how it...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Inbreath automatically outbreath
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1240
Re: Inbreath automatically outbreath
Breathing is a special activity in that it can run in automatic mode or the automatic mode can be easily over-ruled by out intentions. I think that this is one of the reasons why breath mediatation is such a good tool for learning about intention. I think you will agree that when you are sleeping or...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:47 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: More teaching nuns are needed
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8765
Re: More teaching nuns are needed
Cilla, It seems that you have stayed off topic.....the topic here is about the attractiveness of teachers I guess....or at least something to do with teachers and their gender and how this impacts students I guess......you are not even mentioning teachers at all now..... You talk about going to the ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:37 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Lineage of monks
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13334
Re: Lineage of monks
Thanks for the information....it doesn't seem to address my question though.tiltbillings wrote:All the Buddhist Vinaya lineages would claim the that their lineages flow from the Buddha.chownah wrote:Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?
chownah
chownah
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:42 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Habitforge - tool
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3464
Re: Habitforge - tool
Could it be that the important things in life are not measurable?
chownah
chownah
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:37 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Should the world exist?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3764
Re: Should the world exist?
Would it be preferrable to have an eternal state of nothingness, a permanent ceasing of thing-ness: no world, no body, no self, no pleasure, no love, no joy, no insight, no knowledge, no family, no friends, no music, no literature, no seeing, no hearing, no thinking, no greed, no hatred, no delusio...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:29 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Cause and Result
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4692
Re: Cause and Result
DarwidHalim, You wrote: "Let's use example between eyes consciousness and a car. Without a car as an object, can we have eyes consciousness?" When I read this I starting laughing and then started crying.....I started laughing because if a car is an object for eye consciousness then the car...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:18 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Cause and Result
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4692
Re: Cause and Result
DarwidHalim, Which one comes first, Father or Son?.....I am glad that you have lost interest already because now you will not get so excited when I tell you the answer!!!! :tongue: The answer is that neither of them comes first......if a male baby is born the at the moment of birth both the father a...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:49 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Lineage of monks
- Replies: 66
- Views: 13334
Lineage of monks
Did the Buddha teach that only he could initiate a lineage of monks?
chownah
chownah
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:40 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "Common Sense" interpretation of the suttas
- Replies: 70
- Views: 9937
Re: "Common Sense" interpretation of the suttas
Please give me the meaning of this without the explanation of the ancient Commentary. After killing his mother, father, and two kṣatriya kings, And destroying a country, along with its treasurer, Ungrieving goes the brāhmaṇa. It can mean anything for a bad a$$ dude who is unrepentent all the way to...
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Nibbana in Bahiya Sutta
- Replies: 4
- Views: 767
Re: Nibbana in Bahiya Sutta
I think that this: "Where neither water nor yet earth Nor fire nor air gain a foothold, There gleam no stars, no sun sheds light, There shines no moon, yet there no darkness reigns. When a sage, a brahman, has come to know this For himself through his own wisdom, Then he is freed from form and ...