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by DarwidHalim
Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:19 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: About unrooting evil
Replies: 12
Views: 3688

Re: About unrooting evil

It really depends on the technique you want to use. Some techniques require you to get out from the society, train first, and at the end go back to society to face the real issue. Some techniques require you to be always at the society and from that you train your wisdom. At the end, you must come b...
by DarwidHalim
Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:47 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Re: The Buddha/arahants/jhana and pain
Replies: 74
Views: 17879

Re: The Buddha/arahants/jhana and pain

The power of sAmadhi indeed can eliminate the pain that we feel now. But we should note here that samadhi cannot remove dukka, although samadhi can remove tha physical pain. There is a big difference here between freeing yourself from pain because you avoid your attention to it, and freeing your pai...
by DarwidHalim
Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:43 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhism and Sexuality?
Replies: 32
Views: 9550

Re: Buddhism and Sexuality?

"Monks, there are these four courses of action. Which four? There is the course of action that is unpleasant to do and that, when done, leads to what is unprofitable. There is the course of action that is unpleasant to do but that, when done, leads to what is profitable. There is the course of...
by DarwidHalim
Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhism and Sexuality?
Replies: 32
Views: 9550

Re: Buddhism and Sexuality?

Dan74 wrote: The Buddha taught many times about the dangers of lust and sex is the prime conduit of lust.
So, it is lust that we need to overcome.

Lust (the motivation) is the driving force for negativity, not the sex (the activity).

Without sex activity, we don't have Siddharta Gautama.
by DarwidHalim
Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:57 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhism and Sexuality?
Replies: 32
Views: 9550

Re: Buddhism and Sexuality?

It is not hard to repeat these teachings, Halim, but most of us here still experience desire and lust and are working with it. Tell me, how is it for you? Although at this moment we cannot be free from all of that, we should not have this idea that sex is bad or sex is sensual activity or sex is ne...
by DarwidHalim
Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:31 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhism and Sexuality?
Replies: 32
Views: 9550

Re: Buddhism and Sexuality?

First, sex is sensual pleasure - how can it be lauded? Not true. If someone ask you to have sex with a 80th years old nanny. Is that pleasure? If someone ask you can have sex to a leprosy old lady. Is that pleasure? Activity is not good, nor bad, nor neutral. Why we want to impose a layer of concep...
by DarwidHalim
Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:11 am
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: Entering Jhana Without Single Object Absorption
Replies: 55
Views: 13317

Re: Entering Jhana Without Single Object Absorption

Yes. And that is then jhana you get from insight or vipassana.

Vipassana jhana.
by DarwidHalim
Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Re: The Buddha/arahants/jhana and pain
Replies: 74
Views: 17879

Re: The Buddha/arahants/jhana and pain

If Buddha experience Dukka when he is in normal state and then he didn't experience Dukka while in meditation state, then Buddha is like a batman. Someone who has this dual normal and super normal state doesn't deserve the name Buddha. For you the scretch in your face may be a suffering. But for war...
by DarwidHalim
Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:25 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand
Replies: 19
Views: 6891

Re: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand

I ever read a Sutta that roughly tell when you eat, it is 1/3 food, 1/3 water, 1/3 empty space. I can't remember exactly the portion and what Sutta it is.
by DarwidHalim
Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:32 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature
Replies: 205
Views: 46391

Re: What is Wrong with Buddha Nature

Buddha nature is mostly misunderstood by Theravadist and some Mahayana practitioners. The mistake is they think Buddha nature is the potential (seed) that everyone including animal, ghost, anyone can become a Buddha. Everybody knows that everyone can become a Buddha. There is no need this kind of st...
by DarwidHalim
Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:25 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand
Replies: 19
Views: 6891

Re: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand

Is it true that a monk has to finish whatever food given to him?
by DarwidHalim
Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:26 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: can consciousness witness it's own dissolution?
Replies: 27
Views: 7003

Re: can consciousness witness it's own dissolution?

There is a buddhist school that assert the mind can see itself. However this Buddhist school is rejected by another Buddhist school with this reason. Just like your own eyes cannot see itself, it is impossible for the mind to see itself. If we see the flame on the candle, it is the nature of the fla...
by DarwidHalim
Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:29 am
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand
Replies: 19
Views: 6891

Re: Diet-related health problems of monks in Thailand

In my opinion, just expecting the community to serve healthier food to the monk is just a 1 side solution. The most important is the monk community itself. They have to change the lifestyle by changing the curriculum. Frankly, most of them lack of physical exercise. Probably, Thai boxing, or yoga, K...
by DarwidHalim
Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "The Deathless" (amata)
Replies: 423
Views: 94193

Re: "The Deathless" (amata)

If I say "the deathless", no matter how I want to avoid, I will definitely trap myself into existence of self. No matter how good we say there is no self, but this statement the deathless just confirm the existence of what we have denied before. We are trying to say there is no fire, but t...
by DarwidHalim
Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:30 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "The Deathless" (amata)
Replies: 423
Views: 94193

Re: "The Deathless" (amata)

I personally do not like this translation of deathless. It is too easy to be misunderstood as permanent self. This is another perspective to the discussion of amatta as the consequence of dependent arising. I prostrate to the Perfect Buddha, The best of teachers, who taught that Whatever is dependen...