The intention seems unwholesome given that Person A wants to deceive in one case.JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:40 pmI understand. But what was the original intention? Wholesome or unwholesome?
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- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: question about a hypothetical scenario
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Re: question about a hypothetical scenario
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: question about a hypothetical scenario
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Re: question about a hypothetical scenario
I'll add to the scenario that the person no longer has the intention to deceive after the noise ends.JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:31 pm What is the intention? Is it wholesome intention or unwholesome intention?
That's always the question to ask in matters of kamma.
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:08 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: question about a hypothetical scenario
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question about a hypothetical scenario
Hypothetical scenario: Person A makes a noise for 3 seconds with the intention for that noise to be deceptive to Person B only if Person A plays a video game at any time after the noise ends. Is Person A risking the kamma of deception by playing a video game after the noise ends? EDIT after JamesThe...
- Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: 1st precept question
- Replies: 9
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1st precept question
Is it a breach of the first precept if you unknowingly kill an insect by stepping on the ground with the thought “I don’t care if any insects die because of this” but you did not purposely attempt to kill any insects?
- Tue May 15, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What are Thanissaro Bhikkhu's views on an intermediate state?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1499
What are Thanissaro Bhikkhu's views on an intermediate state?
Hello all,
Do any of you know what Thanissaro Bhikkhu's views are on whether or not there is an intermediate state between rebirths?
Do any of you know what Thanissaro Bhikkhu's views are on whether or not there is an intermediate state between rebirths?
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What realm do nagas belong to? And are there animals that live in the worlds of the devas?
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Re: What realm do nagas belong to? And are there animals that live in the worlds of the devas?
Can human beings see nagas or these other super-animals somehow?
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:54 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Lying and telling jokes.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6432
Re: Lying and telling jokes.
you should train yourself, ‘I will not tell a deliberate lie even in jest.’ tasmātiha te, rāhula, ‘hassāpi na musā bhaṇissāmī’ti: evañhi te, rāhula, sikkhitabbaṃ. Ñāṇamoli: “Therefore, Rāhula, you should train thus: ‘I will not utter a falsehood even as a joke.’” I.B. Horner: “Wherefore, for you, R...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:04 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Celibacy as a lay person and kamma
- Replies: 49
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Celibacy as a lay person and kamma
Does maintaining celibacy as a lay person produce pleasant kammic results?
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Would this break the first precept?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1782
Re: Would this break the first precept?
Hello, may I ask why you posted this here? I don't mind, I'm just curiouscappuccino wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:43 pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)
the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually incomprehensibly long, from hundreds of millions to quintillions of years
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Would this break the first precept?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1782
Would this break the first precept?
Scenario: You place a banana peel on the ground with the intention to decide at a later time whether or not you want someone to slip and fall and die because of it. You later decide mentally that yes you do want someone to die because of it. Someone later slips and falls and dies because of that ban...
- Sat Dec 23, 2017 7:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Question about Parajika
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1139
Re: Question about Parajika
There was a slight mistake in my original question so I just edited it
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Question about Parajika
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1139
Question about Parajika
Scenario: A monk tells person A to kill person B. Person A will definitely kill person C if the monk cancels the killing of person B. The monk knows this but cancels it anyway while fully aware that person A will kill person C. Person C is then killed by Person A. Did the monk commit a parajika from...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:51 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Questions about Mara
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- Views: 2415
Re: Questions about Mara
But beings can kill other beings. Is Mara a being or is Mara purely symbolic? Does all taking of life violate the law of kamma? Some people interprets Mara to be strictly and exlusively symbolic. But MN 50 made it clear that's not the case. About the violation of kamma, that means that Mara simply ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:28 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: 2nd precept and milk and eggs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1231
2nd precept and milk and eggs
Is milking a cow and drinking its milk considered taking what is not given?
Also what about taking eggs from a chicken?
Also what about taking eggs from a chicken?
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Question about kamma-vipaka
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2234
Re: Question about kamma-vipaka
According to the Milindapañha there are only seven cases. The results of kamma are not quite the same as the results of hard work. If you work, you get paid a wage. If you donate, you make good kamma, and it makes you happy in the present, but the vipāka does not bear fruit at once. If one performs...