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by zamis
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Advice for Beginning Practice
Replies: 6
Views: 594

Re: Advice for Beginning Practice

Hello and welcome :heart: Refuge and the Five Precepts can be taken everyday. They can be a source of joy for you and should never be a source of self-criticism. You can take refuge and the five precepts before going to sleep at night and will have kept those when you wake up in the morning. Rejoice...
by zamis
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello everyone
Replies: 4
Views: 253

Re: Hello everyone

Hello Preethi. :heart: Welcome :smile:
by zamis
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello everyone this is my introduction
Replies: 3
Views: 237

Re: Hello everyone this is my introduction

Welcome Eli. :smile: :heart:
by zamis
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: How does an animal obtain a human rebirth?
Replies: 14
Views: 763

Re: How does an animal obtain a human rebirth?

Animals share some mental states with humans, like joy and grief. If at the moment of death, an animal’s mental state is one of joy- for instance joyfully relishing a very pleasant feast when they unaware, are shot to death- that joyful state of mind takes the lifestream upward to a more fortunate s...
by zamis
Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Qn. on Three Refuges
Replies: 2
Views: 332

Re: Qn. on Three Refuges

As far as I know, SarathW has given the answer. Refuge taking/training, is a tool among many which is mainly for ourselves. The Buddha has no need of it. It's a mental note. Rather than seeking temporary escape in distractions like televised events/shows, celebrity news, shopping, doom scrolling, al...
by zamis
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Pandaka Interacting with Monks
Replies: 15
Views: 856

Re: Pandaka Interacting with Monks

Welcome to the forum. Ditto on above posts.
by zamis
Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ordaining Mahamevnawa
Replies: 2
Views: 440

Re: Ordaining Mahamevnawa

If you arrive on a tourist visa in Sri Lanka, it can be extended - 6 months, I think - so that would allow you more time to get to know the community and for the community to get to know you Last I checked, you will have to exit the country and return, perhaps next time with sponsorship from the tem...
by zamis
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the teaching on dhamma/faith-followers causes complacency?
Replies: 10
Views: 479

Re: the teaching on dhamma/faith-followers causes complacency?

Wisely attending to the suffering on this planet currently (2 wars, terrorism/ countless conflicts, drought/wildfires, mass shootings, planetary warming...) is enough to set my hair on fire. A Sotapanna isn't free from suffering, is still trying to understand, is still a trainee. The Buddha exhorted...
by zamis
Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Full Ordination in Both Mahayana and Theravada?
Replies: 14
Views: 1281

Re: Full Ordination in Both Mahayana and Theravada?

Wondering if one person can be ordained in both traditions simultaneously and if this is legal by Vinaya standard. Technically-speaking, there is no "Mahāyāna ordination." Mahāyāna bhikṣus have either the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya ordination or the Dharmaguptakavinaya ordination: the former ...
by zamis
Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Are monks allowed to share there Pindapatha food and goods with lay people?
Replies: 11
Views: 2896

Re: Are monks allowed to share there Pindapatha food and goods with lay people?

It depends on the donor sometimes. Not saying it is against any formal rule but there are some donors who would be upset if their alms giving was in turn given. I've seen this in Asia. In that situation the monks would not offer their food to lay people out of care for the donor. It is different in ...
by zamis
Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Three Lives
Replies: 68
Views: 2167

Re: Three Lives

There should be a designation of both. Three lives (or many lives because this is only a facilitation of a complex truth) and moment to moment are not mutually exclusive. It is complex for at every link there are other conditions. For example you don’t just have ignorance on its own (1st link). Con...
by zamis
Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:15 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Three Lives
Replies: 68
Views: 2167

Re: Three Lives

So what is "reborn" moment to moment, and is it easy to observe? Craving is reborn moment- to-moment. For example, a heroin addict is imprisoned within a loop of contact-feeling-craving-clinging-becoming. Returning again and again to contact due to craving. Merely another over-simplificat...
by zamis
Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:37 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Three Lives
Replies: 68
Views: 2167

Re: Three Lives

So what is "reborn" moment to moment, and is it easy to observe? Craving is reborn moment- to-moment. For example, a heroin addict is imprisoned within a loop of contact-feeling-craving-clinging-becoming. Returning again and again to contact due to craving. Merely another over-simplificat...
by zamis
Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:12 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Three Lives
Replies: 68
Views: 2167

Re: Three Lives

There should be a designation of both. Three lives (or many lives because this is only a facilitation of a complex truth) and moment to moment are not mutually exclusive.