Manopubbangama wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:10 pm Your knowledge of the Tipitika is admirable.

I have a great venerable as a spiritual friend to take guidance.

A new article by thanissaro that is a response to the criticism he's received by bhikkhu Analayo and Brahmali for denying the validity of bhikkhuni ordination. https://www.dhammatalks.org/vinaya/TrojanHorse.html From the above link: Part V contains what I feel are the most serious issues in this ar...

Later on, the citta nimitta (sign of the mind) appeared as a bright light in my meditation. The more I did nothing, the brighter it became, until at one point it felt like I was staring into the noonday sun. I was also very naturally sleeping less: I needed only 4 hours of sleep a day. Then one tim...

And what is right action? Katamo ca, bhikkhave, sammākammanto? Avoiding killing living creatures, stealing, and sexual activity . Yā kho, bhikkhave, pāṇātipātā veramaṇī, adinnādānā veramaṇī, abrahmacariyā veramaṇī— https://suttacentral.net/sn45.8/en/sujato Bhikkhu Bodhi in his The Connected Discour...

SarathW wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:54 am

Better move away from the "Theravada monk" label and do such activities as a Mahayana monk or even as a layperson.

It is not that clear-cut.

What is the yardstick to determine a monk as Theravada?
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How about Theravada Vinaya to begin with?

Ah, got ya David, I conflated your post with the OP's post. I agree that an arahant could be online spreading good teachings without proclaiming their attainment. Personally, I don't envision many doing this given how much more good they could do spending their time IRL. Observing how a person acts...

Strictly speaking, Theravada monks cannot till the land, cut plants, kill animals , trade objects, handle money , own anything besides a very regulated list of things. They have, literally, 'gone forth' from such things. However, they can advise laypeople to do this in their stead. So an orphanage ...

I'm thinking of joining a local Buddhist meditation Group and of the three groups that exist in my locale, all of their founders were embroiled in various sexual scandals, some with spiritual groupies, others of various degrees of pandaka behavior. I wont name the groups in public, but the absolute...

Ariya is outnumbered 5:1, 10:1, 100:1 or is it 1000:1 or more? Of course they shine with wisdom among the rubbish heap of puttujhana but people have a hard time telling a true smart person from a learned moron. Perhaps about 10 Aryas for the entire world population of about 7.7 billion people at pr...

It is unfortunate to see that people with good ethic still do not understand what is dasa akusala (ten immoral actions). Hi, could you kindly quote from the suttas where mental actions are called "sila"? Thanks Hi DD, MN 142 also supports that the sīla refers to verbal and bodily actions only . Men...

What if someone was more or less learned in the doctrine and meditated so that he; 1. Attained the Dimension of Infinite Consciousness 2. Took it to be Nibbana 3. Taught others that it is Nibbana and taught them how to attain it How likely do you think that he would get away with it nowadays? I thi...

Well, of course, everyone has their biases and any translator has to make choices . However, in several cases missing text in the Sutta Central translations has been corrected when it was pointed out and translation choices have been changed when queried.[/color] And the choices are made out of bia...

I will start on a different topic today, and will come back to the concept of "san" in future posts. Concept of "san"? Is that Buddhism? This is something I heard: When the former President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakshe competed in the 2005 (?) election, he utilised the ideology of Sinhala Buddh...

May I ask what you mean by this? That is, do people not have a check in with the teacher on a day to day basis, with a set of instructions to follow etc? I've been to Pa Auk in Myanmar and this is how it worked.. as such I assumed it would be similar at Na Uyana Aranya..? Also someone mentioned tha...

So far, I also came across more than 10 suttas where Bhante Sujato appears to be having an abnormal bias as a translator plus some surprising omissions too. Bhikkhu Bodhi's translations are more reliable and improving over the years. Just a reminder for folks who don't know , there is a thread on t...