Dhamma Wheel

I have been meditating for many years although my efforts have not been consistent. I have schizophrenia and am on anti psychotics for that. Would this effect my ability to access samadhi potentially? When I am doing well I enjoy a daily practice and I do find the contemplation of metta for myself ...

1. Suffering and unsatisfactoryness are objective. Any pleasant sensations and stays are impermanent - this is a fact. Any happiness is transient. Any birth will inevitably lead to death, and birth in the human world will inevitably be associated with illness, loss, old age and frailty. That is the ...

SarathW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:50 pm Nice photos!

Tnx!

What is the web site?
Is it about Buddhism?

This is my small forum on Theravada, in Russian.

Many of the things you have listed are representations of people from Canon comments written by different people at different times. In the suttas it is not said that Sumeru mountain is an ordinary mountain made of stone, and even more so the Buddha did not say that the Earth is flat. It is also wor...

The attainment of the fruit of sotapanna guarantees not falling into the suffering worlds below the human, and also reach Nibbana in a maximum of seven lives.

user99 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:58 pm What is the three jewel?

Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha - three jewels in which followers of Buddha take refuge.
Can read here http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma2/bds.html

Srilankaputra wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:49 pmI like your profile photo. Where can I find a larger version?

https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/a ... 2a87e6.png

Virgo wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:46 pm Nice photos!

Thank you.
There are quite a few photos (a few hundred), and they are provided with short comments: description + something like travel notes.

Photos with comments from monasteries, temples and holy places, taken by me in 2012-2013 in Sri Lanka. There is a lot of material, and mostly not from tourist places http://saddhamma.mybb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=24

Comments in Russian, but the built-in Google-translator translates them well.

Is it possible to lose the good life i have? To fall in very deep suffering fields of life? Of course! Impermanence is the main subject of reflection in Buddhism. Nothing can be kept; all appropriation (upadana) attempts lead to suffering in the future. https://suttacentral.net/sn22.12/en/bodhi htt...

Hello, kalyāṇamitta! My name is Leonid. I'm from Russia. Since childhood I have been interested in spiritual teachings. Became interested in Buddhism in 2000, with the advent of the Internet and the opportunity to study texts. Since 2001, practiced Zen, and in 2011 he moved to Theravada. I study the...

For example, the ascetic way of life of hermits and monks is not necessarily beneficial to health. The right means of livelihood are the means that would not contribute to the violation of the 5 rules for the laity and the rules of Patimokkha for bhikkhu. No more, no less.

Does the phrase 'form is emptiness' have any place in Theravada? I believe it's from the heart sutra which is a Mahayana suttra. Is emptiness different in different schools? Which one focuses more on emptiness? The emptiness in the sutas of the Pali Canon is an emptiness from oneself / one’s own, t...