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- Tue Jul 16, 2019 12:11 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Mom dejected about my decision to ordain
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6705
Re: Mom dejected about my decision to ordain
I would also like to be able to teach her Dhamma properly because I think she might get something out of it, and we all know that's a better reward than anything else I could give her, and also a better use for my life. But I just can't feel at ease knowing that I'm causing her to suffer so much, e...
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:48 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Mom dejected about my decision to ordain
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6705
Re: Mom dejected about my decision to ordain
I think the OP’s intention to renounce is admirable and his reflection on the uncertainty of the time of death as a motivator to ordain sooner than later is the kind of thinking the Buddha encouraged. I think the advice to finish a degree is pragmatic but it isn’t the kind of advice you would find i...
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Thankfulness
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1944
Re: Thankfulness
Also, here’s a list of talks on gratitude from Audio Dharma
https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=Gratitude+
https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/?search=Gratitude+
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Thankfulness
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1944
Re: Thankfulness
Something else you might read:
Gratitude in the Buddha’s Teaching Compiled with the assistance and guidance of Venerable Nyanadassana Thero; Mahinda Wijesinghe.
And
The Lessons of Gratitude by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Gratitude in the Buddha’s Teaching Compiled with the assistance and guidance of Venerable Nyanadassana Thero; Mahinda Wijesinghe.
And
The Lessons of Gratitude by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Request for Metta
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1626
Re: Request for Metta
May you be happy, may you be from suffering, may you be well! May whatever sorrows you’re feeling now fade away swiftly, and only peace remain.
You’ll be my neutral person in the meditation I’m about to do shortly
You’ll be my neutral person in the meditation I’m about to do shortly
- Fri Jul 05, 2019 3:32 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Monks talking about their sex lives before they ordained
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6139
Re: Monks talking about their sex lives before they ordained
Quite right too. But guys, input here please. Are all men that shallow? Maybe I should shave my head and go live in a cave. But only if I can take my phone, PS4 and tv with me. Well, what do you expect, anyone short of Sotapanna is still a potential Mara agent, exactly like how Morpheus explained i...
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:28 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Rains Residence 2019
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1359
Re: Rains Residence 2019
Hi James Do you know Bhante Jinalanra Bhante Jinalankara? Yes I know him, I stayed for 4 months in the Bodhinyanarama monastery when he was there, before he moved to a smaller vihara then started Dhamma Gavesi. He helped when I asked him for recommendations for good Sri Lankan monasteries to ordain...
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 3:00 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Monks talking about their sex lives before they ordained
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6139
Re: Monks talking about their sex lives before they ordained
Trying to show that one was normal could be due to ego or it could be done to assure those listening that their advice and lifestyle is relevant to them. If people think that all monks are asexual or never had much of a sex life then they may think the ideal of celibacy in Buddhism is just a fringe ...
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The most influential modern theravada books written
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2406
Re: The most influential modern theravada books written
That's great that you had such a direct path to the Buddha's teaching. I stumbled through philosophy then Alan watts/Eastern mysticism then Zen then vajrayana, then finally therevada I stumbled through western philosophy simultaneously with Buddhism. I knew a small amount about Buddhism and eastern...
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:38 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The most influential modern theravada books written
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2406
Re: The most influential modern theravada books written
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula- ^ I saw it in a library when I was 19 or something, checked it out on a whim and the book is what got me into Buddhism; largely because I thought it was cool and edgy that Theravadins/Buddhists-generally considered it delusional to believe in a soul. In the ...
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Levitation during meditation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 39705
Re: Levitation during meditation
The suttas describe the ability to fly through the air in a cross legged position like a winged bird. I’d like to see someone at least fly higher and farther than the Wright Brothers first flight. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=like+a+winged+bird+site%3Awww.dhammatalks.org%2Fsuttas&kj=%23f0f0f0&k...
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: 99.9% of Theravada is primitive, false
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4271
Re: 99.9% of Theravada is primitive, false
The Pali Suttas recognize their own unreliability: Furthermore, take another teacher who is an oral transmitter, who takes oral transmission to be the truth. He teaches by oral transmission, by the lineage of testament, by canonical authority. But when a teacher takes oral transmission to be the tru...
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:03 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Drinking Water in South & Southeast Asia
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4416
Drinking Water in South & Southeast Asia
In October, I’m going to be heading off to Sri Lanka and after that India and Southeast Asia and I’m interested in finding ways to drink water safely without buying plastic water bottles. Anyone here have any experience with filter bottles they liked or stories of horrible illness I should be warned...
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Do the suttas ever specify...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2150
Re: Do the suttas ever specify...
I think people may have mostly meditated with their eyes open back in the day. If your eyes were closed, it wouldn’t be amazing to not see anything while meditating. Once it so happened that Āḷāra Kālāma, while traveling along a road, left the road and sat at the root of a nearby tree for the day’s ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Where is the line between Buddhism and Dhamma?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7345
Re: Where is the line between Buddhism and Dhamma?
Is might be better to speak of lines and not a line. Buddhism as it is now in its vast scope from Theravada to Pure Land and Vajrayana contains many ideas that are not found in the early texts. To go through all of these differences would take a series of tomes which I don’t plan to write. It is cle...