Dhamma Wheel

Hi Aloka! It is good to know you are interested in it too. Yes, I know the Amaravati website and they have good resources indeed. I would be nice to know what you have been studying recently. Vitor Hi Vitor, I have been listening to the videos made by Ajahn Sumedho around the time of his 86th birth...

kevin52193 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:27 am

Hello friends,

How do we train ourselves, so that we can see clearly that whatever arises, has to cease ?

Be aware of the impermanent nature of everything around you, including observation of the changing seasons and their results .

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Hello everyone. My name is Vitor, I am a Brazilian but I live in the US. I've been interested in the Dhamma for around a decade, especially the Theravadan/Thai Forest tradition. My practice, however, has been very lax, with very long periods of no practice at all. I deeply want to find people to di...

So, we are left with the conclusion that Buddhist teaching can be positioned on the political spectrum between left-liberalism and radical leftism, or we can say on the very left end of left-liberalism, or we could say progressivism, or maybe even democratic socialism. Or maybe trying to find a pol...

Perhaps smoking is a form of karma. Perhaps there isn't a way to stop. Perhaps there was never a choice to begin. Perhaps the length one smokes is determined by ones karma in the past. Perhaps this a bizarre form of self harm one is determined to carry out on oneself. Perhaps if people quit, it's n...

Smoking. I smoke alot, lately I have been going through a carton in about 3 days. I decided to start smoking one day, at work as a dishwasher and at the smoking section in high school where I also smoked weed. How can I quit? I have read Alan Carr's book, it didn't work. I I feel utterly lost in me...

Welcome Chieu Khai Thanh !


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I don't think any kind of "faith" school is a good idea, nor is brainwashing children with religious fanaticism. Better that they should investigate and choose for themselves when they reach maturity.

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“They speak of this thing called the ‘signless immersion of the heart’. “‘Animitto cetosamādhi, animitto cetosamādhī’ti vuccati. What is the signless immersion of the heart? Katamo nu kho animitto cetosamādhīti? ... https://suttacentral.net/sn40.9/en/sujato :anjali: Mike Thanks Mike, much appreciat...

SteRo wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:42 am

...... nibbana is signless.

That's Mahayana not Theravada, see "signlessness" at the link:

https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book ... 25599.html

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Hi all, I’m very new to Theravada, I’ve been a Buddhist for almost a decade in the Mahayana tradition, mainly the Tibetan Vajrayana lineage. Here in South Africa there are no Theravada centres or temples or any presence that I know of. There are many Mahayana centres, mainly Zen and Tibetan. I took...

. I never read "Yahoo" news. Here's a recent artice from "Science" dated July 31st 2020 ,with the title "From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists" . https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists .

Maybe I exaggerated when I say one is seen as a lower practitioner but the dhamma being a doctrine of renunciation and peace praises the noble life of those who don't delight in sensuality so it's not black or white but any effort of sense restraint may increase the due progress in the path. Person...

It's hardly heavy handed 'policing' to call out an outright untruth given by someone who's supposed to be upholding and spreading the Dhamma. Political ideology and hatred has no place in the Buddha's Dhamma. If monks choose to engage in such lowly public talk then they invite censure by the public...