It actually is more likely to strain the neck, so comfort probably isn't the motive. I know this from reading at my desk facing down, I can only imagine what it's be like to have your entire head facing down while walking... I think you may have an inaccurate idea of what's being described here. Th...

Mr Man wrote:In my opinion the post is also misogynistic.

Though you're entitled to your opinion, let me draw your attention to the fact that it is actually a male attitude and foible that is being mocked, not a female one.

I was quite surprised about it, and don't know where does that come from because I read the whole Vinaya. Does anyone know this? It's a mistaken Vinaya opinion that sometimes emanates from Dharmaguptaka quarters and is based on a misunderstanding of the wording of the first pārājika rule: Should an...

Can you share your point of view about the topic "Possibility of Stream Entry"? I don't doubt that there are still stream-enterers. As for modern claims to the effect that the Theravada went through a prolonged dark age where nobody ever attained anything or even believed that you could a...

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he provided the story of how the current Buddha trained himself for Buddhahood over millions of years. What is the sources of the those stories? From sutta, commentary or abhidhamma? That buddhahood is the outcome of many kalpas of developing the ten perfections comes from the Jātaka, Cariyāpiṭaka ...

So, I should suggest him to stop practicing zen meditation. What I would tell him, assuming that the man valued my opinion and requested it, is that the Mahayana —of which Zen is one school— was not taught by the Buddha and has at best only a rather tenuous connection with what the Buddha did teach...

wouldn't either make sense here: "who" perhaps just being more specific as that which would be the "where"? Hi SDC, It’s so many years since I read Paramattha Sacca that I don’t now recall whether Ñāṇavīra’s reading of the sutta is one that depends on his cack-handed translation...

SarathW wrote:Is this how all Arahants attain Total Unbinding?

No.

Why is it that all those mind reading adepts are always dead by the time we hear of them? Why don't we ever discover them when they are still alive and functioning? What do you mean "WE", white man? :) Here in the north of Thailand —where I believe you too are living— I am constantly hear...

Am I correct in thinking that where prostitution is illegal, it would break the precept anyway? What about other forms of sex that may be illegal in certain places? Would the definition of saparidaṇḍā cover these things? The scope of the term saparidaṇḍā is a little obscure and hard to determine wi...

Well that defeats your whole argument, if the Buddha advised against multiple sex partners, then the Buddha advised against prostitution WHICH INVOLVES MULTIPLE SEX PARTNERS It doesn't defeat my statement that the Buddha did not treat prostitution as a violation of the third precept. His teaching w...

Dhamma Greetings, Venerable Dhammanando, Since some Buddhists love going with prostitutes and do so with no moral qualms whatever, while other Buddhists (mainly American ones, it seems) gag at the very thought of it, clearly we don’t have any kind of universal moral law engraved on our hearts. That...

chownah wrote:Who is supposedly narrating this sutta?

Ven. Ānanda is narrating, but Ven. Anuruddha, a mind-reading adept, is giving him the information about the Buddha's mind states.

well by a strict Buddhist interpretation wouldn't her other customers classify as boyfriends etc, Only for the duration of their contract with her. where in the Buddhist scripture does it condone having multiple sex partners, In the Suttas the Buddha advised against it but did not include it under ...