Well posted again!
Very meaningful and helpful, many thanks

I can report my experience. I started meditating 4 years ago as a layman. One can get some time for daily meditation, let's say one or two hours, without much problems, but finding more time could be difficult for a householder, so i can consider this a good effort for a lay practicioner. The cool s...

Does this mean Buddha saying that the mind and body are separate? In other words, you can separate the mind from the body? Isn't this similar to say you can separate the fire from firewood? It appears to me this is a Hindu idea. Wandering internet for dhamma and found this, hope an answer is useful...

As far as i can remember on my (limited) sutta readings, i can recall many times when the expression "skillful qualities" and "unskillful qualities" has been used in different contexts. The word skillful may eventually disappear :-) "In the future, as morality continues to d...

Maybe it is a matter of what is meant as skillful. Skillful can be tought as something which brings good results for one and for others, where good results have to be intended in a dhammic way. So, i think, whatever action brings good results, whatever quality brings good results, can be seen as ski...

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Here is the young boy speaking about meeting the DL....he doesn't appear to be scared, traumatized or a victim of abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZViETIhJ3Ek Many things appear one way and then they are another. For ones with right view it's easy to see the unskilfulness, rather than try to j...

Btw, a Sotapanna would never write down that Sotapannas never masturbate. Actually I wouldn't go that far. Notice that common stock phrase describing a Stream-Enterer in many suttas, ex.: “He is endowed with virtues that are appealing to the noble ones: untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, li...

Understandable for adultery. But what about masturbation? No explicit message on masturbation. But even if it doesn't technically break the 3rd precept in the case of lay folks, it obviously doesn't help the long term goal of eradicating lust, hatred, and ignorance. Well, that sounds right to me. I...

Doesn't look correct to me. Do you have any sutta reference? The background story to SN 3.9 indicates that adulterers will go to hell. Ven. Bodhi's note citing Comy's explanation in "Connected Discourses": Spk relates the background story, also found (in greater detail) at Dhp-a II 1-12; ...

Akashad wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:22 pm
Same with pornography and masturbation and adultery.Sotappannas dont just watch porn,masturbate and commit adultery..you know why..cause thats not going to stop them from falling into the hell realm.

Doesn't look correct to me. Do you have any sutta reference?

I'm looking for a good monastery where i can reside for a period of at least a few weeks, eventually more.
I'm wondering if someone has had a good residing experience, or even better is currently residing, in a monastery in Europe.
Thank you

Dhaniya the cattleman: ... It's a beautiful sutta, but is there a specific point you would like to make, or a question you would like to ask? No my friend, I liked the sutta as you did, and thought it very meaningful as throughout this exchange, Buddha is subtly teaching Dhaniya the noble truths. S...

I've seen effort in practice, right view, brings liberation. Calm inside, deep in contemplation, continuous, day and night, for many days, that' is what can be seen. Stop fermentations, see and contemplate. So sleep stops. Eating stops. Body stops. Mind stops. Not easy to understand, but can be seen...

This is one who attained delighful fruits.
Time ago, he wrote down:

"
When i walk, i know i'm walking.
When i stand, i know i'm standing.
When i sleep, i know i'm sleeping.
When i awake, i know i'm dreaming."