Dhamma Wheel

Our own alphabet is taught is a random but fixed order - we always go a b c d e etc but there is no logic to putting a next to b or d next to e . Both the versions of the Pali alphabet you posted are in logical groups - vowels, and then groups of similar consonants (palatals, dentals, fricatives, .....

... Old robes can be recycled as bed sheets, curtains, cushion covers, etc. According to Kd 21.1.14, King Udena’s wife gave Ananda a generous gift of 500 robes – without asking his permission. He wasn’t particularly happy about that, so he questioned Ananda: “But what can you, honourable Ananda, do...

Covid is reducing demand for oil. People aren't traveling as much so demand is way down :thumbsup: And renewable energy is also reducing the demand for oil. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/global-oil-demand-may-have-passed-peak-says-bp-energy-report And the oil producers want to in...

wearing the defilements of the people Agree. But: 1) Reduce waste 2) Recycle if can not stop waste. :thumbsup: Absolutely. Many countries now charge for plastics bags hence reducing the waste. :thumbsup: Plastic is a by-product of petroleum, so the only way to reduce plastic is to reduce petroleum ...

It sounds like the hindrance of sloth and torpor. You need to sleep more, and during meditation, exert yourself so that you can stay pleasurably with the meditation object. You can also try opening the eyes slightly, or walking meditation. I don't think the content of the dreams is significant. :go...

Tibetan Buddhism has a lot of Shamanism in it. When it combined with Bon, and I'm not sure how to put the dots over the o without a desktop keyboard, I'm not sure which took on more of the other. I'm not sure, either, but (if I remember correctly - it was a long time ago, even for me :smile: ) tant...

Indeed. I guess the artistic aspect of Theravāda definitely isn't what attracts people to the vehicle. :lol: Different strokes for different folks, they say. Each school has its own visual style. Some of us like the colour and exoticism of Tibetan Buddhism, some don't. Some of us like the very cool...

Welcome :hello: Coming to Buddhism from the secular mindfulness tradition will add (primarily) an ethical dimension to your practice which will, in turn, help to stabilise your mindfulness. The Five Precepts, which are one strand of the Virtue - Wisdom - Insight path, are foundational. Beyond that, ...

tom_ wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:56 pm ...The first precept is not 'limit your killing', it's 'do not kill'.

You might like to check that.


Remember, also, that the Precepts are guidelines aka good advice, not commandments.


Kim

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:33 pm

form wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:30 pm I have seen in a sutta that some human are also asura.

maybe by tendency and behavior

I sometimes manifest as a wrathful deity, myself.
Just ask the kids in my classroom.


Kim

Coming late to the conversation, with a few general comments - Five months doing yoga and still almost the same. ... Five months isn't very long to change rigidity which has been building up ever since you were about 5 years old. Also, working on just one part of the body will put strains on other p...

From the evolutionary standpoint how could any of this be true? We are primates and sexual differentiation occurred much further back in evolutionary history, before there were even primates let alone humans. (Note: I don't mean this as a rhetorical question. I'm asking how we can or should interpr...

great idea!

Next time, but somewhere else because now no-one would believe me here.


Kim

Communicating gratitude to humans might be a matter of speculation or anthropomorphism, but we are on safer ground when talking about communicated threats. There are beetles where I live which rear up and display their mandibles when disturbed. Today, we saw one (about an inch long!) threatening ou...

... OK. For discussion. Also, we must stay within the sphere of Dhamma & religion and try to avoid 'politics'. :smile: :goodpost: My starting point is my belief that, at the level of social ethics , all (successful) religions are based on teachings which can be expressed very simply as "Be nice to ...