Dhamma Wheel

It is frustrating. I did want to go on retreat this year. I'm just hoping that in a hundred trillion years I will be able to dispense with a face mask and go to the monastery again. But my government is not giving me much cause for hope... I was trapped in a monastery for six months because of Covi...

Focus only on 4NT and 8FP. Dun let the rest confused you Yes that's okay, if that is most clear for you. But it's not ideal... it is better to keep reading and studying and learning. You are right that the 4NT and the 8FP contain within them the entire path, the whole teaching. Many parts of the dh...

Google maps gives a very limited number of identifier tags for temples, meditation retreats, monasteries, gompas, Buddhist libraries, or shrines. When you try to tag a place on Google maps related to Buddhism, it will generally only let you tag it as Buddhist Temple. It's just the way Google maps wo...

... the suttas agree that suicide is a waste of human life. I realize this may stir up controversy or drama, but that's what the suttas say. Thankyou, it is good to be reminded of these things. And studies have shown that religious rules against suicide do actually stop a significant percentage of ...

I hope he has a better next life!
And thinking of his family, losing a young person is devastating.

He can be safely ignored as a lunatic. This is an example of his posts: " Keep in mind the majority of these weird trolls [by this he means members of Dhammawheel] come from Australia, the nation that genocided a 40,000 year old culture in order to import low IQ convicts with nowhere else to go. Not...

I found these images when I was a monk, and thought they were interesting and provocative.

Lots of interesting things can happen in meditation, as you well know.
Your experience sounds interesting and it's not jhana. It's not relevant to pursue whatever it is.
The thing to do when anything arises is do not try to grasp and repeat it, and instead just return to your meditation object.

In Australia we have Bodhinyana Buddhist Monastery, and once a year some interested monks visit the Catholic Benedictine Monastery to the north of Perth. Or the Christian monks come to the Buddhist monastery. They have a chat and a discussion. Nothing much is realized, but it's nice to meet dedicate...

It's simple, seems to me. Bhante Suddhasso said this last week: As a Buddhist monk, it is my duty to directly state what is wholesome and what is unwholesome; what is right and what is wrong; what is good and what is evil. Therefore, to be perfectly clear: Racism is evil. Cruelty is evil. Torture is...

If there isn't support for a monk in an area, then that is not a suitable place for a monk to live.
The monk must move to a place where he is supported by laypeople.
Global online fundraising isn't a good substitute for a local community.

It's super that someone as knowledgeable as Venerable Analayo has taken time to examine Daniel Ingram's experiences, instead of just dismissing them immediately without investigation, like I've seen many bhikkhus do.
Thanks for the link to the article.

It is the same in Europe. Many angels and demons and spirits in the past, but not now. Researchers have shown the decline in reports of supernatural beings is strongly correlated with the rise of public education. This was especially seen during the French revolution when the English had schools, bu...

Is there a list with the name and information for each monastery in Thailand? Technically the Thai government will have a list of every monastery in the country. But it's not on the public internet, and it will be in Thai, in some government office in Bangkok. You know there are tens of thousands o...

Here's the Wat Pah Nanachat daily schedule. Pretty normal from monasteries I've visited. 03:00 am Morning wake-up bell 03:30 Morning meeting: chanting and meditation Dawn Monks go on alms-round. Lay guests sweep the monastery or help in the kitchen. 08:00 The meal 09:30 Short daily Dhamma teaching (...