when i do good deeds, it is my self doing it. when i do bad deeds, there is no self.

Gwi II wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:25 pm

Aparamanametta wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:29 pm Kindness and un-kindness are just different type of khanda, which is just another form of dukkha? Why the buddha and many other teachers emphasize on kindness?

Why do we teach kindness to our children?

So they have less suffering

I never gamble, GWI II

I struggle greatly with this too, especially lately.

befriend wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:38 am i don't want to live alone but I don't want a roomate or a wife. I know the bhavana society does residency for lay people now that I think of it.

My brother lives about an hour from there. I might head there some day.

a skillful happiness for all beings? not the happiness of sense pleasures.

i take modafinil or armodafinil before work if i've had trouble sleeping the night before.

We are on a path that goes against the stream of society.

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:36 pm

jelemba wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 4:49 pm I'd say it is contradictory especially if you're using the hard concentrated drugs. But not like it's a grave sin or something. But what about herbs? The natural drugs like marijuana?

Cocaine is also natural.

and opioids

Thank you for the bio Gwi. You are a very Inspirational and a great power of example.

are we all puthujjanas? why are we arguing??

The Buddha said "go do jhana."

justindesilva wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 4:55 pm 31 planes of existence are counted as
20 planes of brahma realms
6 planes of deva realms
One plane of manussa
4 planes of lower , naraka realms.
The only person who could view and comment
on all these realms was lord budda.

The multiverse

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

… Quote the teaching of no self "Others will be attached to their own views, holding them tight, and refusing to let go, but here we will not be attached to our own views, not holding them tight, but will let them go easily." Effacement should be practiced that way. [MN 08]. This seems li...