Well, it is something you can worry about or it is something you just try. Not really much use wondering about it I'd say. And since Buddhism is also about worrying less, that attitude is also a great practice.

What are you building your understanding upon? Our understanding of kamma should not come though intellectually trying to grasp it, because we will not be able to see it that way. You end up in mechanical ways of thinking as the example you are describing. Kamma doesn't work that way, it's not reall...

I think this is all too generalized. Often there can be building / repair work, gardening also especially for lay people. And don't forget kitchen work can be quite tiring as well, cooking all morning, washing up, cleaning the kitchen etc. But on the other side also the little hours of sleep is not ...

Those meditations are not really Buddhist then. You won't hear those kind of things in retreat centers or monasteries for example. Meditation is to take the mind inside, not to take it outside by listening to music. Then it is not meditation, but simply listening to music... Perhaps try to live with...

If your rice can hold 2 liters of water I would consider eating less rice.. and drinking more. I mean, that'd be about 3 kg of cooked rice then if not more. That's insane. So I think you are overestimating how much water is in your rice. Just drink more. I don't see why not.

Sometimes you can get very much get caught up in thinking about the future. Trying to get it all planned out, on what you are going to do, on what you are going to be. But look and ask around to see how many people ended up exactly how they planned. You will find most are not. There are so many fact...

Some already said similar things, but I guess it can't hurt to see some more views. In my eyes the precepts are not black and white. They are guidelines for our behavior. What karma comes down to eventually is not a defined line, but our intention. So while in one case a particular action is not goo...

I get the idea that you try to understand 'nonself' by trying to understand self. But self is not one thing or one view even. It is a collection of different views that people can have and so you can't really understand it as a fixed thing. For example, the idea of being in control of something is p...

It means quite literally what it says: that rebirth ends, means there is no more next birth. Hi reflection I don't agree. There literalism seems to neglect the Buddha's teaching on Dependent Origination and on compassion toward people. The usual phrase is "no more coming to any state of being....

Always easy to judge others, that's one thing. Especially if we don't observe their rules ourselves. But it's also very difficult to get by in today's society without money. Think of things like transport and so. In monasteries without money there is always a lot of arrangements with who drives who ...

I think the MN43 quote is not that you can't understand some differences between perception and consciousness, but that you can't have one without the other. No painting without canvas, that sort of idea. I broadly agree, but I don't think there is a mutual dependence - I'd say that perception depe...

Hi, It means quite literally what it says: that rebirth ends, means there is no more next birth. So no more birth, no more being, no more suffering. Seems like a very saddening end to a spiritual path, but understanding it is the highest happiness, that's part of why the Buddha's teachings are so ha...

Hi! First off all I want to say I recognize your feeling. Luckily, many Buddhist centers and monasteries that can take you up from anywhere ranging from a day till possibly your entire life. There are many in the US, also. If you are in a point of your life where you are able to visit one for a cons...

Meditation shouldn't be about trying, figuring out, about controlling and interfering. It is about letting things be. The mind is restless and frustrated? Fine, let it be. Exactly that attitude is what gets it to cool down. Every time you force or try the mind into some position, you sort of create ...

I'm sorry to hear. But I wouldn't present your ideas about this to him. People live their own lives and die their own death. Where they'll go and what they'll do is not up to us to know or mingle with. It is determined by acts from the past. I think it's better to look at your own feelings. Why do y...