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We all get a little more monkish as we get older. If you do it properly meditation practise will give you more discernment to choose different behaviours depending on what is appropriate at the time. Realising you aren't a fixed self gives you more freedom. It's fun to bust people chops, except whe...

Better to end up as a boring old monk, than a boring old layman. I guess it depends on how well you practice what the result is. We old monks are not all boring, but "having fun" and partying is not a part of the monastic life. Listen to some of the talks by different monks , and decide f...

That said, it's likely that Buddhist practice (and by that I mean not only meditation, but also observing the five precepts, studying and contemplating the teachings, etc) will lead you to re-evaluate your priorities. Doesn't necessarily mean you'll want to go off and live in a forest, but you may ...

No problem. Nobody knows what will be in the future. Just watch yourself. Kind regards That is pretty much always true. I think the question to ask yourself is: Will meditation make me become more happy? If the answer is yes, what does it matter if it makes you more "monkish"? I'm not sur...

I am 20 years old and am still forming identities about myself, and am still very impressionable. I like the calm mind and relaxing into myself that meditation gives, but I feel that if I continue to meditate routinely throughout my life, I might change and the people who love me the most will not k...

This reality has no name. This reality also has no identity. When we are itchy hand and itchy mind purposely creating something which is not there since day one, we will suffer. We are actually killing our self. This life is not divided into spiritual life and no spiritual life. This life is also n...

Don't beat yourself up. In my opinion these are very "normal" observations for one looking to understand what is happening in this life and attempt to bring an end to suffering. Just don't obsess over it all for too long. Most people are very wordly, and are not aware nor looking to becom...

I don't know anything, these are just thoughts to myself and subject to change, maybe it is just a phase I'm going through in my adolescence and I will laugh on it eventually. I'm posting it here in case anyone else feels it. -- :soap: :soap: :soap: Aaaah... I don't really know what to say.. I see s...

We converse with our words, our tone, our pitch, our bodies, our tempo, our eyes, our ideas, etc.. with all these conversations going on at once, do we always come to a period at the end of all of them? If my tone communicates an energy and you don't adequately receive that energy, will all our conv...

The last two posts clear this up, thank you.

I'm curious if in some ways it is necessary to cling to impermanence, "Necessary" refering to what purpose? According to the Buddha's teaching it is necessary to negate permanence. This negation is called "impermanence", "non-permanence" would be more appropriate. Yes ...

Maybe to the process of clinging-nonclinging itself? And maybe "nothing" is really "something", and cessation is a beginning of something new? You are playing with words. It is impossible to cling to non-clinging. There is either clinging or no clinging. Is there either clinging...

Hello dhammadiscipline, Please give examples from the suttas with references, and please back up the question with your own understanding of this matter, and how you came to hold the belief. With metta Chris I don't know much about Buddha or Buddhism. Maybe the words don't get to the real meaning a...

Maybe to the process of clinging-nonclinging itself?