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by ashtanga
Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:51 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

...sorry I started this thread but it does seem to have become popular...funny that. If its was as definitive an answer as some seem to think on here why so much discussion. Someone mentioned that it might not be the right time to ordain if debts cannot be paid off and to wait for another incarnatio...
by ashtanga
Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:35 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

Quite simply, I would be refused ordination... At least I know where I stand with this particular tradition. Pity.
by ashtanga
Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:19 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

I have to say as the original poster here i am shocked at recent posts. whats with this 'get a job' attitude??? How remarabley opinionated! I can only gather you mumble that when walking past 'beggars' on the street too?! Many of us are in debt not through choice, but as a result of divorce, career ...
by ashtanga
Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:23 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

...this is true. I have been out of IT for too long now. I never had any intentioin on getting ito debt, it was a negative result of embarking on a more compassionate career so late in life. |Maybe I should have stayed in IT making ££££'s but doing little for anyone but large corporations :stirthepo...
by ashtanga
Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:29 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

Not enough assets to cover my debt. I worked in IT for nearly two decades that brought with it plenty of money but also plenty of credit. I then changed several years ago to work in social care. I am a Psychologicalo Therapist now, my current salary is what I used to get for a bonus. I managed my de...
by ashtanga
Sat Jan 08, 2011 7:42 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Re: Debts

...well in the current climate there are likely to be only middle class people with no debts liable to be ordaining in the future. Credit is a fact of life nowadays!

Tony.,..
by ashtanga
Sat Jan 08, 2011 5:51 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Debts
Replies: 127
Views: 23981

Debts

I would like to consider ordaining at some juncture. However, I have some debts that although being managed will never be paid off. What are my options? Bancruptcy? :broke:

Thanks Tony...
by ashtanga
Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:50 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Renunciation
Replies: 10
Views: 2470

Renunciation

...thanks for your replies regarding my recent break with my ex...very supportive. i am going through waves of ok...not ok...ok...not ok...and trying to watch all the time. This whole episode has developed a strong sense of renunciation in me - I think it was there all the time but has had a good bo...
by ashtanga
Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:32 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Broken Heart and Heartache
Replies: 4
Views: 1600

Broken Heart and Heartache

Hi all, Against all odds, despite all of my knowledge of the human condition, I find myself having been left by my partner utterly bereft. The emotional pain is at times unbearable...nothing seems to help as embarrased as I am to admit it. I understand the nature of attachement, I understand that I ...
by ashtanga
Tue May 11, 2010 11:25 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Emptiness
Replies: 64
Views: 10175

Re: Emptiness

Thanks for all of your replies! I see the apparent distinction between a Theravada forum and discussing Nargajunas intention. Having said that the goal is the same surely - it realising a non-conceptual experience of 'Emptiness'? If Nargajuna developed The Buddhas original teachings on impermanance ...
by ashtanga
Thu May 06, 2010 10:16 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Emptiness
Replies: 64
Views: 10175

Emptiness

Hi all, Cacn someone explain how Theravadin meditation practices - following the breath, vipassana etc... - can bring about an experience of Emptiness. I see how the Tibetans do it, via nalytical thought, but I can't see how the same outcome would happen through methods like Vipassana? Thanks in adv...
by ashtanga
Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:49 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Goenka Retreat?
Replies: 20
Views: 7474

Goenka Retreat?

I have booked myself on the Goenka Retreat in Sep (UK). Can anyone give me some feedback as to whether its a worthwhile move etc...?

Thanks!

Tony...

Apologies if this has been done before - I'm in work and can't really search.
by ashtanga
Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Travel to Thailand
Replies: 4
Views: 1729

Re: Travel to Thailand

Thanks for the replies, I'm looking into to it now :juggling:

Tony...
by ashtanga
Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Travel to Thailand
Replies: 4
Views: 1729

Travel to Thailand

Hi everyone, I am hoping at some point to make the trip to Thailand. I would really appreciate some pointers from UK members that have with experience found the best way to get there and stay - inlcluding a roough idea of how much I should be budgeting. I am unsure if I'll be travelling alone (cheap...
by ashtanga
Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:00 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Only way out...?
Replies: 8
Views: 2138

Re: Only way out...?

Hi, I guess i am not clear as to how meditation on the breath can bring about a knowledge of anything other than the breath - meditation on the 'self' and its illusory nature would surely familiarise my mind with this ultimately helping me gain a realisation of this, hence liberation? I can see his ...