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- Thu Apr 15, 2021 5:04 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: How to reconcile time spans in the canon with history
- Replies: 7
- Views: 180
Re: How to reconcile time spans in the canon with history
A theory I read was that Buddha taught reincarnation because it motivated his audience and Jesus taught immediate reward in Heaven for the same reason. The important thing is to work your path now to the best of your ability without giving up.
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:20 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: How to reconcile time spans in the canon with history
- Replies: 7
- Views: 180
Re: How to reconcile time spans in the canon with history
One of the numbers I recall is 13.82 billion years for the age of the universe and 4.5 billion for our home world. I think the scales in Buddhism might be billions or even trillions of years.
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 5:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Kalama Sutta
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6147
Re: Kalama Sutta
It is like taking math classes and watching the teacher work through problems at the front of the classroom. The people who do their homework learn to solve problems like that, but the people who just watch and don't struggle with the problems don't learn.
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:17 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Can we attain Nibbana by just listening to two Sutta?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 174
Re: Can we attain Nibbana by just listening to two Sutta?
Let's try it.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/damachak.pdf
https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/uplo ... c_2017.pdf
These are the right ones, right?
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/damachak.pdf
https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/uplo ... c_2017.pdf
These are the right ones, right?
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sleeping create schism ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 162
Re: Sleeping create schism ?
We are talking about the five actions of immediate effect. You have to have the Sangha of a living Buddha. You can't create that kind of schism any more than you can maliciously wound a living Buddha now. So now you will have to be content with killing one of your parents or killing a Bodhisattva. G...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:16 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Interesting Q&A in Vimuttimagga
- Replies: 20
- Views: 346
Re: Interesting Q&A in Vimuttimagga
This one time I was reading about a meditator who had the ability to fly. He took regular flights over a nearby forest and was seen by a King. Being impressed by a flying person, the King started sending food offerings on a regular basis. Everything went well. One day the King sent his pretty young ...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:33 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: giving beggars question
- Replies: 19
- Views: 259
Re: giving beggars question
If you want to keep your money, don't worry about it. It is your money. You don't have to work so hard to justify it by saying the money will not be used well and the recipients are not of good quality.
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:53 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: semen emitting addressed
- Replies: 32
- Views: 764
Re: semen emitting addressed
Yep. Definitely beating a dead horse here. This theme has been whipped enough already.
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:54 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: This is the book where ordination candidates start. (in Sri Lanka)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 314
Re: This is the book where ordination candidates start. (in Sri Lanka)
It seems to be a Vinaya text. Rules, especially for monks. There are a few people here thinking of becoming monks, so that works. I'm just not one of them.
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:36 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 525
Re: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
Some ants bite to express their displeasure.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:03 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 525
Re: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
Ant is an acronym for automatic negative thought. So don't feed your ants with attention.
Re: yāni
If no one else is going to go there, I will. This is Yanni.


- Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:01 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: semen emitting addressed
- Replies: 32
- Views: 764
Re: semen emitting addressed
You should only emit semen when you are in the presence of someone who is prepared to receive it.
If it wasn't clear, I tend to see threads like this as an excuse to bring a sexual discussion in by the back door.
If it wasn't clear, I tend to see threads like this as an excuse to bring a sexual discussion in by the back door.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:56 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Will the people who call the arahants just by name, attain Nibbana?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 415
Re: Will the people who call the arahants just by name, attain Nibbana?
Have you ever seen addressing like that (to an arahant by a buddhist) in any Sutta or commentary? Of course not. Now you are talking about speaking on record. Even if someone skipped a title it would have been added in again later. Actually I almost remember reading a reference to someone addressin...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 11:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 525
Re: Ants 🐜 (Consciousness & Self-awareness)
Once I read that a single glass of wine kills as many brain cells as an ant possesses. Their tracks have chemical signals to other ants to go the same places. Part of repelling them has to involve cleaning away the chemicals. Also, bed bugs are attracted to red and black sheets. Brown, too, for that...