They didn't tell me why and I didn't ask. I assume it's because I work in healthcare and sometimes take care of Covid positive patients.
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- Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:55 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 2890
Re: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 2890
Re: covid vaccine: yea or nay?
Yes. I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine some time last week. Felt a little tired that afternoon and the injection site was sore for 2 or 3 days. That was the extent of the side effects for me; they were virtually identical to what I experience with the yearly flu vaccine. I'm glad and gratefu...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: addicted to energy drinks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6599
Re: addicted to energy drinks
Some years ago, I drank energy drinks for a month or two, two a day at most, before I started experiencing heart palpitations and short bouts of irregular heart rhythm. I quickly stopped drinking them. I've never had an irregular heart rhythm from anything else in my life, including copious amounts...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:50 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: addicted to energy drinks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6599
Re: addicted to energy drinks
Some years ago, I drank energy drinks for a month or two, two a day at most, before I started experiencing heart palpitations and short bouts of irregular heart rhythm. I quickly stopped drinking them. I've never had an irregular heart rhythm from anything else in my life, including copious amounts ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:21 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: To the End of Body and Mind: Story of Nyāṇadīpa Bhante's Life
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4882
Re: To the End of Body and Mind: Story of Nyāṇadīpa Bhante's Life
Thank you for sharing this, Bhante.


- Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:18 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddhism: just another "truth"?
- Replies: 127
- Views: 22204
Re: Buddhism: just another "truth"?
Hello, I’ve been having doubts lately about buddhist teachings, whether in written form or in talks given by monks. I feel that as soon as the topic discussed goes beyond the limits of "mundane" comprehension and goes on to describe things that mere mortals can only accept on faith, the dissonance ...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:24 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: death of forum member dylanj
- Replies: 45
- Views: 38664
- Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:17 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Madhyama Āgama Volume 2 Released
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7755
Re: Madhyama Āgama Volume 2 Released
Thanks for sharing this.


- Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:01 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Realms, metaphor vs reality, etc.
- Replies: 156
- Views: 28194
Re: Realms, metaphor vs reality
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...
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:50 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Buddhist Digital Resource Center to Launch New Online Library of Buddhist Works
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2471
Re: Buddhist Digital Resource Center to Launch New Online Library of Buddhist Works
Thank you for sharing this.


- Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:20 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Keeping muscles strong?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 29873
Re: Keeping muscles strong?
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...
- Sun May 03, 2020 12:38 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Throwing away food in water with no bacteria in it
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1463
Re: Throwing away food in water with no bacteria in it
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...
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Memorization and the Oral Tradition
- Replies: 783
- Views: 47704
Re: How did historical Buddha looked like?
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?
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Memorization and the Oral Tradition
- Replies: 783
- Views: 47704
Re: How did historical Buddha looked like?
[...]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...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:14 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 150
- Views: 7700
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
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 ...