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by thisisanoldrule
Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:52 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Can killing be acceptable in Buddhism?
Replies: 28
Views: 8679

Re: Can killing be acceptable in Buddhism?

Haha, Fede your answer made me laugh.

... I am somewhat uncomfortable with knowing that it's possible I might go see a transplant doctor for a checkup who'd feel tempted to carve me up to save the other 4 people on the table :weep:
by thisisanoldrule
Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:36 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: qi gong
Replies: 6
Views: 2517

Re: qi gong

I don't know how accurate this is, but there is the catchphrase that the Chinese practice Confucianism in public, Taoism at home, and Buddhism at death. Maybe once upon a time, but with the Communist revolution I think these sorts of concepts fell out of favor. .... I wonder how many actively pract...
by thisisanoldrule
Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:22 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
Replies: 21
Views: 4877

Re: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?

This question is interesting for me. The first thing I did was googling "pasada". So the first thing I'd recommend you in order to develop pasada is reading this: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/affirming.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ...
by thisisanoldrule
Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:22 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
Replies: 21
Views: 4877

Re: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?

Thanks all for the replies so far; amtross, your links are very interesting and I plan on reading them more carefully soon. Why do you need to cultivate anything, if, according to your view, everyone will end up the same and quite soon? ,) (And then you will reap the fruit of that good karma in a la...
by thisisanoldrule
Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?
Replies: 21
Views: 4877

How to cultivate pasada if you *don't* believe in rebirth?

It seems that many people come to Buddhism after tasting samvega, or through disillusionment to attachments of the world. But, to counteract samvega, we are supposed to develop pasada, or else samvega leads to despair and suicide seems like a reasonable way out of suffering. In this day and age, des...
by thisisanoldrule
Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:23 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Your Favourite Sutta for Lay Practice?
Replies: 18
Views: 4337

Re: Your Favourite Sutta for Lay Practice?

Definitely these: Sigalovada Sutta: The Discourse to Sigala http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.31.0.nara.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This sutta describes in depth the virtue to be developed by the householder. The first time I read the section in there a...
by thisisanoldrule
Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:42 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: How can we have compassion for child abusers?
Replies: 99
Views: 15230

Re: How can we have compassion for child abusers?

Hi, I'm new to this board, but this is a topic that I've spend a lot of time thinking about so I thought I would share the fruits of that contemplation with others in case they may be useful to anyone. Here are some concrete ways I have been able to have compassion towards child abusers: By recogniz...