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- Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sariputta not yet believing the dhamma
- Replies: 9
- Views: 497
Re: Sariputta not yet believing the dhamma
Thank you for the replies everyone.
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:57 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sariputta not yet believing the dhamma
- Replies: 9
- Views: 497
Sariputta not yet believing the dhamma
In one of Ajahn Chah's talks he refers to a story about Sariputta: The Buddha said that those who simply believe others are not truly wise. A wise person practices until he is one with the Dhamma, until he can have confidence in himself, independent of others. On one occasion, while Venerable Saripu...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Looking for a citation on Dana
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1188
Re: Looking for a citation on Dana
Thank you, bhante.
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Looking for a citation on Dana
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1188
Looking for a citation on Dana
A long while back, I ran into an obscure citation from the Buddha, which I have not encountered since and the source of which has since eluded me. It roughly goes something like "for those with much wealth, much may be given. For those of modest wealth, giving may be modest. For those of very l...
- Wed May 06, 2015 10:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Having difficulty with metta practice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6470
Re: Having difficulty with metta practice
Why would one wish happiness for all beings if it is felt they are not deserving of it? One arouses a wish for it because it's what all beings wish for themselves. And the fact that the yogi wishes for the same for himself permits him to empathize with their wish for it, and based upon that, to aro...
- Wed May 06, 2015 9:36 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Having difficulty with metta practice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6470
Re: Having difficulty with metta practice
The first step of feeling that all beings everywhere truly deserve to be happy is to realise that you, more than anyone anywhere, is fully and truly deserving of true and unadultered happiness. Why do you say that? I am aware that New Age teachers who give guided meditations incorporating a bastard...
- Tue May 05, 2015 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Having difficulty with metta practice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6470
Re: Having difficulty with metta practice
Something I noticed, but necessarily the case, is that you didn't include metta towards yourself in your list of practices. If you just forget, then OK, but if not, that should be your priority. Yep. It really is the most important prerequisite and the one most westerners tend to gloss over, becaus...
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:34 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: How India is squandering its top export: The Buddha
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3389
Re: How India is squandering its top export: The Buddha
Maybe back then you did.Mawkish1983 wrote:Pretty sure I never fledShaswata_Panja wrote:While you Buddhists fled to Tibet, China, Sri Lanka and other Buddhist majority countries.
- Thu Apr 02, 2015 8:12 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Is it right to get ordained and let your cats behind.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8698
Re: Is it right to get ordained and let your cats behind.
I think there are humans in your life with a far greater capacity for feeling loss than your cats who might be more poignant to consider. They may have the capacity to rationalise the why of it, but I doubt that will make their sense of loss less than your cats. It just sounds a bit like your perspe...
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Some questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3322
Re: Some questions
Pretty crucial typo here. Should say:Anders wrote:and that the flexing happens by opening the hips and by bending at the knee.
"and that the flexing happens by opening the hips and NOT by bending at the knee."
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Some questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3322
Re: Some questions
I usually use half-lotus with a small cushion under my spine. Sometimes it gets really uncomfortable and I feel like I have to move. Should I fight this urge, or just move? I've heard conflicting accounts. It really depends on what kind of pain. Some are transitory, others warning signs. If your po...
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: We're (almost) all going to hell? (Question on Pansu Suttas: Dust)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2927
Re: We're (almost) all going to hell? (Question on Pansu Suttas: Dust)
Living in the modern western world is, to my mind, a quite misleading image of what is generally entailed by human life. And even then, it's skindeep. For millenia, people have warred against each other, raped, stolen, and destroyed each other, lied and deceived. They still do all over the world. In...
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Joseph Goldstein: Achieved is the End of Craving
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16085
Re: Joseph Goldstein: Achieved is the End of Craving
I put together this video yesterday, with what I felt was one of the most insightful sections of Goldstein's Dhamma talk... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLdRbpkvAZ0 :smile: Three years belated thanks, Chris. The talk was excellent, goldstein is a bit like a gentle shower on a heaving summer day, ...
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 4:39 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Good reasons to reject Mahayana and follow Theravada
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9699
Re: Good reasons to reject Mahayana and follow Theravada
As a Mahayanika with a lot of love for Theravada, maybe I can offer some reasons on why I have always felt very attracted and connected to Theravada: Coherent presentation - The Pali Canon is just a beautiful presentation of teachings with an internal consistency and coherency that is to me unparall...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:00 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Insight timer for iphone, ipad and android: review plse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10073
Re: Insight timer for iphone, ipad and android: review plse
On iOS I always preferred iSamadhi . They told me they were working on a port to Android years ago but it hasn't materialised... On Android, I prefer the Zazen Meditation Timer . Really like how configurable it is. Might give the insight timer another go though it didn't win me over last time I trie...