Dhamma Wheel

I don't think I have an issue with the idea that "our minds wandering through [the ten realms] freely as we become the mindsets associated with those realms" or describing rebirth as "the reinvention of the mind in the ten realms." I definitely think that a person experiencing great suffering can r...

Thank you for sharing this.

I've read about Ajahn Sumedho using a rowing machine very regularly - I'd be impressed if he still does at his age! I've seen the treadmill in Ajahn Pasanno's "office" and I vaguely recall him talking about using it. Those are two examples of monks of many vassas "working out." The Buddha himself sa...

Point well taken......especially considering that it seems likely that since they don't deficate then the dyspepsia would last the rest of their life.....and it seems like some devas live a very very very long time. I never get dyspepsia myself, but I gather from those who do that it often causes a...

Wow, that sounds like a lot, especially the patimokkha - are you saying that a monk or nun would have to learn both the bhikkhu and bhikkhuni patimokkha or just their respective gender's version? And to your knowledge, are these standards commonly followed?

[...]while those with very little mnemonic skill (e.g., men ordained in old age) would memorize only the handful of texts that a monk was required to know before he could be relieved of the obligation to live with a teacher. Hi Bhante, What is that handful of texts? I'm guessing it has to remembere...

There is a passage in the Dakkhiṇavibhaṅga Sutta comparing the value of gifts. One could use this passage to infer the relative demerit of killing an animal to killing a human-being of poor moral character (e.g. a burglar), or killing an ordinary moral person, a non-Buddhist attainer of jhāna, one ...

SarathW wrote:How do we know that Buddha attained Nibbana?

We don't, until we do.

When one hears about someone and that person is being praised, and this awakens one's interest in that person, what else is that but going by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability? An...

Thank you for your reply, DooDoot. That was my impression as well. I see it as metaphorical in the sense of "life flashing before your eyes" or "life is fleeting." I'm wondering if that's it...or if there is something deeper here.... Volo, thank you for your reply. Can you expand upon what you mean ...

The sutta below is SN 20.6. Clipboard01.jpg Regarding the second to last section, Ven Bodhi's note (sorry, no diacriticals): Ayusankhara . Spk: This is said with reference to the physical life faculty ( rupajivitindriya ); for this presishes even faster than that. But it is not possible to describe ...

Even confining in a room by yourself, the outside you hear kids running and playing around. Maybe try those noise canceling headphones from Amazon.. ...and sound masking with some form of white/pink/brown(ian) noise track. YouTube has lots of examples. "Sound masking is the addition of natural or a...

Perhaps a significant part of any renunciate lifestyle includes surrendering personal ego and lifestyle customization for a communal discipline. It is a support, not an impediment. Going it alone is a romantic idea, but not one's best chance for spiritual development or becoming a recognizable reso...

There is the case where some people are impure in their bodily behavior & verbal behavior, and who do not periodically experience mental clarity & calm. Hatred for a person of this sort should also be subdued. [...] And as for a person who is impure in his bodily behavior & verbal behavior, and who...

When things aren’t quite going your way is it wise to reflect that it might be due to past kamma, or would that be unwise speculation? My guess is that we ought to reflect that in general our current situation might be at least in part kammically determined, because of this: "'I am the owner of my ...