How often do you bathe?

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How often do you bathe?

more than twice a day
2
4%
twice a day
4
7%
once a day
27
50%
several times a week
14
26%
once a week
4
7%
less than once a week
3
6%
 
Total votes: 54

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How often do you bathe?

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How often do you bathe (shower/bathtub)?
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Do we really want to know? I don't.
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Then please delete it. :smile:
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Stefan wrote:Then please delete it. :smile:
Just because I don't to know doesn't this might not be of interest to others.
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Some days I never leave the bathtub/ hut tub. There wasn't an option for that. :tongue:
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Why is this being asked? Seems mighty strange.
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who was it that showers less than once a week? :pig:
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Modus.Ponens, I'm sure you don't mean to be insensitive, but perhaps this person is without a home. I know that when you are without proper shelter it can be extremely difficult to find a place to clean oneself. it's something we can be mindful of.
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rowboat, someone in the chatroom voted less than once a week just for the fun of it and i was responding to that vote. It was a private joke.

EDIT: i entered rowyourboat's name instead of rowboat's.
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I see.

I suppose I should change my username, because I'm not rowyourboat, but rowboat, and I keep getting mistaken for him/her. (I live in a small village on the ocean, therefore i am rowboat, my favourite means of transportation.)
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It might be interesting to see the demographics of bathing. I suspect those living in tropical climes would bathe at least once a day while those experiencing winter now would bathe less often.
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If one has confidence there is no need for bath.

  • ... a certain man said to Nandaka, the chief minister of the Licchavis, "It is now time for your bath, sir."
    "Enough, I say, with this external bath. I am satisfied with this internal bath: confidence in the Blessed One."

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Buddhist Monastic Code II
Chapter 1
Personal Grooming


A bhikkhu should be clean, neat, and unostentatious in his appearance, as a reflection of the qualities he is trying to develop in his mind.

Bathing. Although Pc 57 forbids a bhikkhu from bathing at intervals of less than half a month, we noted in the discussion of that rule that it was apparently intended as a temporary disciplinary measure for bhikkhus who had inconvenienced King Bimbisāra when he wanted to bathe in the hot spring near Rājagaha. When the Buddha later added exemptions to the rule, he so relaxed it that he virtually rescinded it. In addition, Mv.V.13 explicitly rescinds the rule in all parts of the world outside of the central Ganges Valley.

In the time of the Buddha, bathing was done in a river, a bathing tank, a sauna, or a showering place. Instead of soap, people used an unscented powder called chunam, which was kneaded with water into a dough-like paste. Bhikkhus are explicitly allowed to use powdered dung, clay, or dye-dregs; according to the Commentary, ordinary chunam would come under "dye-dregs." A bhikkhu with an itching rash, a small boil, or a running sore, or whose body smells bad (in the words of the Commentary, "with a body odor like that of a horse") may use scented fragrant powders. At present, the Great Standards would allow soap under the allowance for clay, and scented soaps or deodorants under the allowance for scented powders for a bhikkhu with a strong body odor. Otherwise, the use of scents is listed among the bad habits prohibited by Cv.V.36 (see Chapter 10).

The etiquette when bathing in a group is that a junior bhikkhu should not bathe in front of an elder bhikkhu or, if bathing in a river, upstream from him. If one is able and willing (and, of course, if the elder bhikkhus are amenable), one may look after the needs of elder bhikkhus while they are bathing. An example of this, given in the Commentary, is scrubbing them. When scrubbing another or oneself, one may use one's hand or a rope or pad of cloth. Sponges, which apparently were not known in the time of the Buddha, would probably be included under pad of cloth.

One is not allowed to rub one's body with a wooden hand, a string of red powder beads — according to the Commentary, this means bathing powder mixed with powdered stone (cinnabar?) and formed into beads — or with a scrubber incised with a "dragon-teeth" pattern. A bhikkhu who is ill, however, may use an unincised scrubber. In the time of the Buddha, young men while bathing would rub their bodies against trees, against walls, against one another (this was called a "fully immersed massage"), or against rubbing posts (aṭṭhāna, which according to the Commentary, took their name from their being incised with a pattern like a chess board (aṭṭhapada)) in order to toughen their muscles. Bhikkhus are explicitly forbidden from rubbing their bodies in any of these ways. However, they are allowed to massage themselves and one another with their hands.

In another context — cleaning one's feet before entering a dwelling — one is allowed to step on foot wipers made of stone, stone fragments, and pumice ("sea-foam stone"), so it would seem reasonable that the use of pumice or other stones to scrub off stubborn dirt while bathing would also be permitted.

When leaving the water after bathing, one should make way for those entering the water.

One is allowed to dry oneself with a water wiper — which the non-offense clauses for Pc 86 say may be made of ivory, horn, or wood — or with a piece of cloth.

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Living in the sub-tropics, the norm is twice a day. Certainly twice a day for those attending a Gym.
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pilgrim wrote:It might be interesting to see the demographics of bathing. I suspect those living in tropical climes would bathe at least once a day while those experiencing winter now would bathe less often.
Around these parts which is below 41 degrees South, the vast majority of people bathe once a day.
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