Hey guys, My SAT test is right around the corner and I am feeling pretty stressed out about it. Do you guys have any dhamma related ways of dealing with this? Think of it as a gradual training, a gentle taste of what the real stress to come once you've got a real job in the real corporate world. Ac...

No sutta about this? Logically it looks so. Then in that case father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, any other relationships are all fake. There is no relation, what to feel proud about? This world is made up of fu*rs, what's there to respect for? If such is the case then only task or wort...

I just read majjhima nikaya 117, it seems like there is an 8 fold path with effluents siding with merit and a noble 8 fold path that is transcendent. What makes them different? They aren't really 2 separate paths. Instead, it's the same path but with different degrees of maturity or purity dependin...

A father of 3 kids in a bushy area kills a serpent that enters the house instead of his knowing it is a sin. His motive or cetana is the safety of the children. What is the outcome or weight of his papa karma or cetana. Need the view as the motive seems to be safety of the kids. Probably of the typ...

Venerables and Friends, Is there any relationship between the three watches of the night where the Buddha attained the three true knowledges and the three types of Uposatha that are described in AN3.71, that is: 1- The Uposatha of the cowherd 2- The Uposatha of the Jains 3- The uposatha of the nobl...

SarathW wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:44 pm What is the difference between ignorance and wrong view?

Ignorance is the deeper layer that causes many wrong "things", ie. wrong view, wrong speech, wrong livelihood, etc...

There are more than 8 nice cabins on the monastery, but no other monks wanted to stay for very long, so it was a one-monk monastery for years and years. Well, if the dude's a bad monk, that's exactly his plan all along, making it so hard and unbearable for fellow monks so that they all would move t...

Hello all, I have a pali question. In Satipatthana suttas it says " Idha bhikkhave bhikkhu kāye kāyānupassī [alex: and other 3] viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṃ [/u]" Does " vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṃ " refer to what happens prior to kāye kāyā...

Hello every dhammawheel member around the world, i want to tell you how to regain strenght if you feel weak. 1-.To recover energy, in the morning you can drink a juice blend of fruits and vegetables, prepared in the blender, you can use whatever you have on hand and make sure you use all colors. Fo...

thanks for this. I don't know who this monk/lay person is, and I'm always interested in how/why senior monastics choose to disrobe. It should be fairly simple, for at the most fundamental level, the only thing that separates lay life from monastics is the Patimokka 227 rules. So if a monk's not abl...

Some people say, in meditation we need to make an effort to make our breathing subtle, deep and slow, while others say we shouldn't try to control our breathing, we should just observe it. What is your opinion on this? Different people use different methods, so treat it like a scientific experiment...

Maybe not in the political sense, but what makes it conservative compared to other sects like Zen? we can only speak in very general terms, cuz ultimately it really depends on the individual practitioner. There could be Zen practitioners that adheres much more strictly to the Buddha Dhamma and Code...

Is the nature of the mind is ignorance? "nature of the mind" is probably too abstract a term to be used. To be more concrete, lets call it modes of operation. The mind's default mode of operation is ignorance. It also possesses the "enlightened" mode of operation, but this is so...

I remember reading that a monk can and must refuse food that is offered at the wrong time and also if it is one of the forbidden meats, for example, lion, elephant, human, etc. What’s wrong with lion, elephant, non registered human flesh? human flesh meat? Yum yum ... those poor monks don't know wh...

thanks for this. I don't know who this monk/lay person is, and I'm always interested in how/why senior monastics choose to disrobe. It should be fairly simple, for at the most fundamental level, the only thing that separates lay life from monastics is the Patimokka 227 rules. So if a monk's not abl...