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.

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.

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.

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?

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...

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 ...

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.

Yep. Definitely beating a dead horse here. This theme has been whipped enough already.

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.

Some ants bite to express their displeasure.

Ant is an acronym for automatic negative thought. So don't feed your ants with attention.

If no one else is going to go there, I will. This is Yanni.

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.

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...

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...