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- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is this knowledge for?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 506
Re: What is this knowledge for?
Unless you're planning to compete in the Buddhist Trivial Pursuit championships accumulating knowledge is a waste of time except where there is a practical application. Look for practical applications for the knowledge that you already have, if you can't see any then maybe accumulate a different kin...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: How do I become a nun?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 631
Re: How do I become a nun?
As you are in Greece and are fluent in english you've got easy access to any monastery in the EU, I'm not sure about the UK. I'd recommend that you arrange to stay in a monastery in Europe for a couple of weeks to see how you like it. Here is a page of contacts in the Ajahn Chah tradition https://fo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Is sati discernment?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 412
Re: Is sati discernment?
Sati is very interested interested in noticing unwholesome habits and learning to let go of them or replacing them with wholesome.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Decipher this to me with early teaching proof
- Replies: 10
- Views: 286
Re: Decipher this to me with early teaching proof
Why? where did you get this information?
While these factors can help with what you've said nothing is certain and is dependent on past kamma and bad habits also.
While these factors can help with what you've said nothing is certain and is dependent on past kamma and bad habits also.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1082
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
I think the issue here is the word "owned". We own car and no matter how well we look after it we can't prevent it from deteriorating or breaking down, our body is like this. The problem is that we not only believe we own the body in the way we own a car we identify the body as me, which i...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: breath concentration
- Replies: 6
- Views: 363
Re: breath concentration
PS.: And yes! I forgot to add I would like to come back as soon as possible to my nimitta, to concentrating on my nimitta and to this kind of effortless meditation. I enjoyed it very much. In meditation, as in life I struggle very much with anxiety of being insufficient and the effortless meditatio...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Some Advice With Sitting Posture
- Replies: 2
- Views: 253
Re: Some Advice With Sitting Posture
If you are only experiencing the pain in the shoulder when meditating on a bench and it disappears soon after you get up then it's unlikely that it is causing you damage. It doesn't need to interfere with your focus just make it the primary object, see if you can notice the tension you are creating ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Search for large Thai monastery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 221
Re: Search for large Thai monastery
Besides Wat Pa Nanachat and Wat Suan Mokkh, does anyone know of any other major Mahanikaya monasteries in Thailand that have at least a few farang monks living in there? Some information about the monastery (life), perhaps even personal experiences, would be great. Here's a couple of well known one...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
This is a really good way to prompt annoyance, in the hope of provoking an angry response or giving up in frustration.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: First time retreat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 427
Re: First time retreat
If you are travelling near Bodh Gaya in March this would be a good option https://www.christophertitmussblog.org/ ... march-2024
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
This is a slogan, and a paradox which is a really good way of projecting a Zen master-like persona, while at the same time making it less obvious that the question remains unanswered.cappuccino wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:44 pm Self view includes no self
So you’re going nowhere, even if in the opposite direction
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
You have to understand the teaching in general This is good advice. No self nonsense leads nowhere This is a really good way to insert a slogan into the topic, something that readers might believe if they don't think about it too much, and not notice that you still haven't answered the question. No...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
This is a really good way to avoid answering the question by stating something that sounds profound but means nothing, unless referring to one of Bill Murrays better movies of course.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Bhikkhus, consciousness is not self. Were consciousness self, then this consciousness would not lead to affliction, and one could have it of consciousness: 'Let my consciousness be thus, let my consciousness be not thus.' And since consciousness is not-self, so it leads to affliction, and none can ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 762
- Views: 19761
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Whether it is extreme or not depends on what exactly is being negated, how did the Buddha define atta in the pali canon?