Hello Everyone; there is one fear I have when it comes to the monastic life and giving up life as a householder. I was hoping to get some perspective from those who would have the experience. Let me explain my question. I have been listening to monks teaching lay Dhamma; listening online, on youtube...

I wanted to ask if anyone else has had experience with people like this, in their journey for more calmness and the ability to respond to situations rather than react. I have had a variety of experiences of people who, for a lack of a better explanation, won't consider you telling the truth or takin...

Something tells me that it doesn't have so much to do with being upset about kamma, as much as it is painful to upset a stabilized identity-view. Whether it's kamma or any sort of view that challenges an attached identity-view, there is pain in that conflict, and it's easier to turn away than turn t...

Hello, I've been working to try and reconcile the idea that I want to take care of myself and feel happy, but at the same time I don't want to hurt others or "leave them behind" without being able to help them. I wanted to jot down some ideas I've been working with and seeing if anyone had...

Thank you very much for taking the time to share!

Much of what you said helped me reflect on much of my own mind. Thank you for taking the time to make this part of your journey available to others, I am benefited and helped along because of it

My personal experience and practice has found benefit to me having a vegan diet, both mentally and physically (don't digest milk or egg's very well). I'm not saying this is a better way of doing things, I'm saying that it is something that works best for me and my experience. For me, when I think ab...

Sorry for the bump of an old topic, but I wanted to leave a message in this thread in case anyone came along and read it, without me explaining how I thought about it now. When I wrote it, I was working with my own personal issues of how my family and specifically my mother would use what I felt was...

Just for clearness of dialogue I'll speak only about responsibility to parents for this topic. Anyway, I was reflecting on the idea of responsibility to my parents and the meaningfulness of it. While I was reflecting I wasn't able to find a way that I could be have been born without some origin in g...

I feel those people you mentioned aren't blinded by their suffering; they haven't suffered enough to look for a meaningful way to cease the suffering. The way I think of it is if a house with enjoyable things were filling with smoke; if the smoke was bearable (enough sensual pleasures to offset the ...

Thank you for the link; I'm going to search that site and keep looking.

And thank you for being an admin and maintaining this site; it's been very beneficial to my personal practice.

Hello fearandloving, I had read your topic a while back because it was very relevant to me and my personal urges. Only now do I feel comfortable replying to you because of how I feel and what I've done. So you are aware, I plan on using straightforward wording and practices that have been for me cru...

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this topic. After looking through the search function I was unable to find what it was I was looking for, and google images was also unable to help me. For the benefit of my own practice, I am looking for either artistic renditions of Gautama Bud...