Congratulations Stefan
On a side note, does any one of you know a pali prayer to say/chant before eating?
I've been searching that cause it would be a great way to abstain from eating sweets and stuff
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- Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:53 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: How to lose weight
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18413
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:46 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Mixing" traditions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4069
Re: "Mixing" traditions?
Thanks a lot for all these answers :group: Not from my humble understanding, I have read a number of Theravadin teachers argue quite forcefully that rebirth within any of the thirty one "planes of existence" should be taken as literally meaning "at the break-up of the body, after deat...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:21 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Mixing" traditions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4069
Re: "Mixing" traditions?
Thanks a lot for all you kind advices! :hug: Don't believe everything you from a Mahayana point of view about the Theravada. Liberation benefits all and awakening is not limited to monks. Oh, really? :? I thought I read awakening was limited to monks in the Theravada tradition. I'm sorry if I misint...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:41 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: "Mixing" traditions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4069
"Mixing" traditions?
Hi everybody :anjali: I've read many things about Theravada buddhism late months, but I must say I'm not totally "in love" with it. I really appreciate the fact it's the closest tradition to what Buddha really taught, but : A/ I really feel like a need of "devotion" that's more i...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:35 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New Global Moderator - bodom
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7574
Re: New Global Moderator - bodom
Congratulations bodom
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Postcards from the Valley
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: Postcards from the Valley
Waow, awesome picture!
Looks like a wonderful place to spend time, indeed
Looks like a wonderful place to spend time, indeed
- Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:17 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Regarding the absence of "JCSuperstar"
- Replies: 91
- Views: 27635
Re: Regarding the absence of "JCSuperstar"
so sad..
"there is little hope for a recovery" implies there's still hope for him... maybe :/
Metta to him
anko.
"there is little hope for a recovery" implies there's still hope for him... maybe :/
Metta to him
anko.
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:32 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Theravada "leader(s)"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8530
Re: Theravada "leader(s)"
Thanks a lot for all these answeeers :group: IMHO the most prominent Theravada master might be Mahāsi Sayādaw - he was a questioner and final editor at the Sixth Buddhist Council. I didn't even knew him :reading: thanks a lot for that :) Theravada is very decentralised and abbots and lineages seem t...
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Theravada "leader(s)"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8530
Re: Theravada "leader(s)"
That's ok. It's a common mistake. but actually, in a similar vein I don't think there is any one specific outstanding authority figure in Theravada. There are however, several extremely respected and prominent teachers. AFAIK.....(And trust me, I am 'Mrs Ignorant' on this factor, and many others......
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:42 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Theravada "leader(s)"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8530
Re: Theravada "leader(s)"
The Dala Lama is not the spiritual leader of Mahayana Buddhism. He is the Temporal Leader of Tibet, and the Spiritual Lama of one single Tibetan Buddhist School, The Gelupa. (The others being Kagyu, Shakya and Nyingma). I'm really sorry, I was almost sure that he wasn't the spiritual leader of Maha...
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Theravada "leader(s)"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8530
Theravada "leader(s)"
Hi everybody :group: I've read some Dalaï lama's books but the fact he's often referring to Mahayana sutras led me to think : "If Dalaï-Lama's the spiritual leader of Mahayana Buddhism (or at least Tibetan Buddhism), then are there any... leading figures in Theravada Buddhism?" Or, if not,...
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:49 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Newbie
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1841
Re: Newbie
Welcome samadhi_seeker and Raven, hope you'll find what you're searching here
Metta,
anko.
Metta,
anko.
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:48 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: My Holy Trinity - Buddhism, Taoism, Music
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2922
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:05 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Vegetarian monk kitten...? MUST SEE.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1543
Re: Vegetarian monk kitten...? MUST SEE.
Oh, I didn't post this to prove anything. It's all because I think this lil cat is awesomely cutePeterB wrote:I think it looks about as convincing as most evidence of rebirth....jeez.
Doesn't that embarrass anyone ?
With metta
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:00 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Vegetarian monk kitten...? MUST SEE.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1543
Vegetarian monk kitten...? MUST SEE.
I just found out these 2 videos on Ven. Heng Sure's facebook wall. "It's a very special vegetarian kitty that stays in the temple all day and gazes at the Buddha's images. It even cries as if it's in repentance! When the people tried to give the kitty fish and chicken it would turn its head and...