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by JamesTheGiant
Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:05 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934) THE BUDDHA AS A GIANT KAIJU! The Great Buddha Arrival (大佛廻國, Daibutsu Kaikoku)
Replies: 8
Views: 85

Re: Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934) THE BUDDHA AS A GIANT KAIJU! The Great Buddha Arrival (大佛廻國, Daibutsu Kaikoku)

That's cool. I often have a daydream during meditation, of the huge metal Buddha coming to life at the front of the dhamma hall, and walking straight through the wall, tearing through the wood like it was paper. It's a pretty Buddha, but I don't want it to come to life like a hideous steel golem.
by JamesTheGiant
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 15
Views: 261

Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana

You need to clarify what you mean by Vipassana jhana. There are three things called by "jhana"... Sutta Jhana, Vipassana jhana, and also visuddhimagga/commentarial jhana.
by JamesTheGiant
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:45 am
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Trailer for a documentary about Buddha Bodhivana Monastery
Replies: 1
Views: 81

Re: Trailer for a documentary about Buddha Bodhivana Monastery

Deep in the forest... Two hundred metres from the #683 bus terminus, and just around the corner from the Iron Brook Donkey Farm.
by JamesTheGiant
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Disturbing reports of those who were almost dead and came back
Replies: 3
Views: 154

Re: Disturbing reports of those who were almost dead and came back

Wow, the ones that report Hellish experiences... i hope those people started to lead better lives!
by JamesTheGiant
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Thailand monasteries supportive of Early Buddhist Text views
Replies: 2
Views: 242

Re: Thailand monasteries supportive of Early Buddhist Text views

Your can remove Wat Marp Jan from your list. They strongly support commentarial interpretation and ignore the early texts when they conflict with the way tradition and commentary says things should be done.
by JamesTheGiant
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:39 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: BMC is Unorthodox
Replies: 5
Views: 502

Re: BMC is Unorthodox

Eko Care wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:02 pm The Popular English Vinaya book named Buddhist Monastic Code, is an Unorthodox Compendium.
Please list several examples where the BMC is incorrect and your version is correct. It will help this discussion to have some examples.
by JamesTheGiant
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can lay people lessen our obsession with sensual pleasure?
Replies: 13
Views: 548

Re: How can lay people lessen our obsession with sensual pleasure?

When you meditate, aware of pleasant and unpleasant sensations and feeling tones, you practice not reacting and accepting both pleasant and unpleasant with equanimity. You continue doing this for days and weeks and months and years, many thousands of times. And eventually you train yourself to not r...
by JamesTheGiant
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Are You prepared For an earthquake?
Replies: 35
Views: 1254

Re: Are You prepared For an earthquake?

We had an earthquake here today at the Wellington monastery, in the middle of morning chanting!. It was just a 4.7, but it was close, only 10km away.

There was a big rumble noise and everything shook. Some things fell off the wall in the workshop.
by JamesTheGiant
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Are You prepared For an earthquake?
Replies: 35
Views: 1254

Re: Are You prepared For an earthquake?

mario92 wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:36 pm:namaste:
Will you continue to believe these psychics, if the big earthquake does not happen?
by JamesTheGiant
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Thyroid and ordination
Replies: 8
Views: 373

Re: Thyroid and ordination

Is it cheap medicine? Often supporters will offer to pay for it.

In Europe, UK, NZ, Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, usually medicine is given by the government to monks for free or very little money.
by JamesTheGiant
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:40 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 58
Views: 3333

Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent

cappuccino wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:19 am This is… Kali yuga
Maybe. But Nanachat and other western monasteries don't seem to have such problems training westerners.
Maybe it's just Ajahn Martin and his insistence on doing things the way he had to do under Ajahn Maha Boowa.
by JamesTheGiant
Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 58
Views: 3333

Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent

This reminds me of that old saying: "If everyone else in the monastery is the problem, maybe the problem isn't everyone else. Maybe it's you who is the problem." Or more crudely put by a comedian: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into ass...
by JamesTheGiant
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 58
Views: 3333

Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent

24 minutes 31 seconds is where he starts complaining and getting to the subject of leaving and why.
by JamesTheGiant
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Pandaka Interacting with Monks
Replies: 15
Views: 856

Re: Pandaka Interacting with Monks

mikenz66 wrote: I wouldn't be so sure if it were a Sri Lankan monastery, as I have had a lot less interaction with their culture.
Yes I agree on this. A trans person might be treated not so great there. Sri Lankan buddists are quite traditionally conservative.
by JamesTheGiant
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Pandaka Interacting with Monks
Replies: 15
Views: 856

Re: Pandaka Interacting with Monks

Just don't shake hands or make physical contact. Monks usually avoid touching women. Wear something that covers your legs at least past the knees, and don't show any cleavage. Other than that, there's nothing special that would apply. There are a lot of transgender people in Thailand and they intera...