The aim is not to share your details with anyone. It’s merely to help organise a calendar along with confirmation so that lay people can see when they can bring alms without conflicting with someone else. I can see that this might be of some use in Sri Lanka, where people need to put their names on...

I understand. I mean I'd like to see how it works out in reality, when the offending party persists. If the badgered member sends a message of complaint to a mod or reports the badgering post, and if the mod judges the complaint to be justified, then the badgering member will be instructed to desis...

Kumara wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:23 am Can you give me an example of that?

It's article 2.j.

Pressuring members to engage, despite them having already explicitly declined such engagement in the current topic .

An interview with American Pali scholar and Buddhaghosa specialist Maria Heim. It's actually from five years ago but I've learned of it only today. Maria Heim is Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Religion Department at Amherst College, MA. She specializes in Pali Buddhism, and her recent book is ...

From experiance it's not a language issue Sāmanera, From experience it is most assuredly a language issue, since even on a good day I'll be lucky if can make head or tail of even one in four of your posts. From the Terms of Service: This is an English language forum , therefore posts must be in Eng...

Does Bhante now understand Dear Sāmanera, I'm afraid that since your English is unintelligible to me, I have no idea whether I understand the matter you're asking me about. I suggest that you consider composing your posts in German and then using Google Translate to translate them into English. Tho...

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what are the signs of His coming? Welcome to Dhamma Wheel. The signs of the Buddha Metteya's coming are said to include the following: The dispensation of Gotama Buddha will have entirely disappeared. Billions of years will have then elapsed. The lifespan of humans will be 80,000 years, with women ...

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It seems like he does not plan to return. Does anyone has some information? If he is still at Wat Pa Ratanawan, I would like to pay him a visit I don't have any info beyond what's in the video and the text description that accompanies it. The latter states only that the ajahn will be leaving to spe...

Maybe I wrote it wrongly, as I try to remember again, the wordings are like:" a bhikkhu must be careful if saying about jhana, a bhikkhu better say "concentration" because if a bhikkhu use the word "jhana" then he can become no more bhikkhu ... " words like that Some very strict monks do take care ...

But why nowadays someone said, bhikkhu "say the word jhana" can be easily accused for 4th parajika offense. why? he don't say he is already Arahant, he don't say it for attracting food dana. I've never heard anybody say this, but if they did then they'd just be revealing their ignorance of Vinaya. ...