Hi Bhante
So greed hatred and delusion are less in Thailand?
The video is a comedy sketch it is not real (and not connected with Theravada).
Do "western ideas" create stress for you Bhante?
Hi Bhante
The video is a comedy sketch it is not real (and not connected with Theravada).
Well, American really. It isn't the sort of thing read by English gentlemen.retrofuturist wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:53 am For example, if you pick up a copy of Tricycle now in 2018, it will be full of the kinds of things that have been described here in this topic as "Western".
Cultural Marxist mentality?
Maybe because Slavs rarely conquered & genocided any native peoples (such as in the British Empire did in the Americas and Australia) and weren't accused of Holocaust.
Don't have Cultural Marxism?
Maybe Cultural Marxists did not flood into the Slavic nations in the late 1800s and after WW2 and took over the media, entertainment & educational institutions. Maybe it was the opposite; that the Cultural Marxists flooded out of the Slavic countries of Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire
Western nations are subject to heavy immigration thus the traditional sense of community has diminished.
While it definitely is an exaggeration, the last time i was attending a math class we had to watch a segment of some show making fun of Donald Trump and while i don't remember the specifics i can recall that transgender tolerance was also mentioned (for no apparent reason).
In Bhante Gunaratana's autobiography he describes an incident where he was staying with a young American couple in the U.S. They offered him some lunch and he followed the traditional culture you describe above by first refusing. The American couple said, "ok" and Bhante G ate nothing that day.Bundokji wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:05 am When they want to leave, you have to insist that they stay longer (regardless if you mean it or not). If you are eating something and don't ask them to eat with you, this would be extremely rude. If they accept your offer immediately, that would be a sign of greediness, and a simple no answer does not work as well, you have to keep on insisting until you make sure that they did not refuse your offer out of shyness/politeness.
When i lived in the west, visiting a friend or a colleague felt awkward. When they ask if you want something (if they did it at all), they expect a simple yes or no answer. I lived in the west for almost seven years, and i could not get used to their ways! But when i reflect on their behavior objectively, i feel that they are right. Yes should mean simply yes and no means no, without much nonsense.
It sounds like you are trying to fit the Dhamma to your own preconceptions.khemindas wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:57 pm It seems to me that Slavic Buddhism and Western Buddhism is quite different things, because Slavic mentality is quite different from Western Mentality, in Slavic countries we don't have this white guilt, and we don't have all this hypertolerance, multiculturalism, feminism and equality ideas, for us these things are alien and most of us thinking they are not need. So our approach seems will be something middle between Asian and Western Buddhism.
May the one who doesn't try to fit the Dhamma to their own preconceptions cast the first stone!rolling_boulder wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:54 pmIt sounds like you are trying to fit the Dhamma to your own preconceptions.
binocular wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:12 amMay the one who doesn't try to fit the Dhamma to their own preconceptions cast the first stone!rolling_boulder wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 4:54 pmIt sounds like you are trying to fit the Dhamma to your own preconceptions.
Given the prevalence of violent racism and homophobia in countries such as Russia, maybe those cockroaches are not so bad after all.khemindas wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:14 am From my experience surely Asians have less cockroaches in mind, they perceive everything in more simple way, for example approach of sanuk and sabai in Thailand. As for some western ideas, they might sometimes create more stress for people as example this video
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