there is only now there is only inhale there is only exhale there is only this moment In breath Out breath One thought/word One touch One clock tick Contact, mendicants, is one end. The origin of contact is the second end. The cessation of contact is in the middle. Contact and cessation. Then anoth...

there is only now there is only inhale there is only exhale there is only this moment In breath Out breath One thought/word One touch One clock tick Contact, mendicants, is one end. The origin of contact is the second end. The cessation of contact is in the middle. Contact and cessation. Then anoth...

I thought it was a nice poem about not clinging to the two extremes of the past and the future. It is about the stay in the present (breath awareness). By the time you get to the end of the poem, the present has long passed. :smile: As a matter of fact, by the time you have read this, the 'present'...

I thought it was a nice poem about not clinging to the two extremes of the past and the future.
It is about the stay in the present (breath awareness).

my brain and heart divorced a decade ago over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become eventually, they couldn’t be in the same room with each other now my head and heart share custody of me stay with my brain during the week and my heart gets me on weekends they never speak to one an...

So is the action there and you're intending it or not, or is the action created by what you're intending? Can you do anything without intention? I think so. But when you do things without intention, your life is very impulsive, whimsical, unpredictable. I don't think you can do anything without eff...

I've been feeling this empty feeling lately. I'm not sure how to even explain it. I feel it mainly when I'm in contemplation by myself. It's very disturbing honestly. It doesn't bring peace to my mind, more like fear. Almost like a loneliness. No matter how many people are around or what I'm doing,...

There are many: -Anicca. Dukkha,Anatta and Asubha - “Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ,kusalassa upasampadā;Sacitta pariyo dapanaṃ,etaṃ buddhāna sāsanaṃ“ -tipiso bhagava araham sammasambuddho vijjacaranasampanno sugato lokavidu anuttato purisadammasarathi sattha devamanussanam buddho bhagavati Svakkhato bhagava...

Thank you, Bhante.
Good to see you back in the forum.

If you know someone is going to assault you, is it self-defense if you pre-emptively attack them? What defines that? Or, suppose you intend to borrow something, and you take it without asking. Is that theft? Does your intention determine it, or is it determined by something else? What if you intend...

If you know someone is going to assault you, is it self-defense if you pre-emptively attack them? What defines that? Or, suppose you intend to borrow something, and you take it without asking. Is that theft? Does your intention determine it, or is it determined by something else? What if you intend...

dharmacorps wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:05 am

SarathW wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:32 pm
Wasn't Buddha unreasonable to blacklist all Pandakas for one wrongdoing by just one pandaka?
What is the justification here?

Do you know what a Pandaka is? It is not a gay person.

What is it?

In my opinion, the belief in rebirth is a mundane right view.
I wonder whether belief in rebirth is not applicable when you have the supermundane right view.
I have created a new thread to discuss this matter.

viewtopic.php?t=45495

Do you shred the mundane right view when you move on to the supermundane right view?

Does that mean you no longer believe in rebirth etc?

https://www.nichirenbayarea.org/mundane ... right-view

Thanks TR The Blessed One then ordered the monks, "Behold monks. a pandaka is one who is not to be ordained. Monks should not give them ordination and those who have been ordained must be made to disrobe" (Vinaya, Vol. 4, pp. 141-142). Wasn't Buddha unreasonable to blacklist all Pandakas f...