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Hi: Do you get like sexual images, sexual thoughts while meditating? , is that the hindrance?. Regards. No. I am able to go into rapture when I meditate and such thoughts do not disturb me as long as I am meditating. Quite obviously, as a house holder, I cannot devote unlimited time to meditation. ...

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Do you get like sexual images, sexual thoughts while meditating? , is that the hindrance?.

Regards.

Hi: Not sure what you mean, but sound like overthinking. The Buddha was a monastic, and the teaching is lived at the highest standard as a monastic, but there is plenty of domain for lay people, just like there is plenty of domain for someone that is not a body builder at a gym, and plenty of use of...

Also, there is a sutta where the Buddha explains "there can only be one Buddha at a time per Solar System". So it is fair to assume there are Buddhas in other solar systems, where pretty much same thing happens. Regards. I'm pretty sure it's not one Buddha at a time per Solar System. I remember mor...

Hi: Like dinosaurs?. If you mean previous beings like humans with larger lifespans that appear on the suttas, its so long ago that there are no fossils. Regards. but are they in our earth or another planet before big bang? In AN 5.180, the Buddha smiles while arriving at certain place. Ananda ask h...

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Like dinosaurs?. If you mean previous beings like humans with larger lifespans that appear on the suttas, its so long ago that there are no fossils.

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I would advice to be successful financially before ordaining, but this is no rule. It depends on your personality, life history, family situation, the role you are supposed to have in relationship to mother,father, sons, etc.

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Hi: Even if "doing nothing" could be possible, it is impossible to exhaust all previous kamma. Also, "doing nothing" does not cut the underlying tendency to greed, hatred or delusion which brings renewal of being. Arahants have intention, if they wish they stay in some place, if they wish they go, e...

Hi: ...some knows and pursue, some don't know and get caught by sense pleasures chasing and cravings. Or some may even know but don't have much conviction and disregard it. I would add. Some believe in nibbana and have conviction, they don´t get caught so much on sense pleasures, but on ideas and es...

Hi: This is some advice given by the Buddha in a previous life, at that time he was a high priest giving advice to the king. It was on how to deal with bandits. The advice was followed and ripped in good results. Even so, i dont think imprisonment, confiscation or banishment is a bad thing to do to ...

Hi: Idle chatter is basically any talk that is not talk about dhamma, or talk that it "does not come from the heart". As lay persons of course we need some chit chat in order to mantain relationships, and we also need to talk about our jobs. But its mostly directed to people that are addicted to sma...

Hi: Hmm i would not say there is absolutely no meditation while "thinking about impermanence", it can sink some concepts and tune some perspectives (like when reading a sutta), but i would also not call it a complete meditation. And just sitting thinking about impermanence without a context will ca...

Hi: Hmm i would not say there is absolutely no meditation while "thinking about impermanence", it can sink some concepts and tune some perspectives (like when reading a sutta), but i would also not call it a complete meditation. And just sitting thinking about impermanence without a context will cau...

Hi: An epithet of a Buddha is 'That Blessed One is such since he is arahant and Fully Enlightened, perfect in true knowledge and conduct , sublime, knower of worlds, incomparable teacher of men to be tamed, teacher of gods and humans, enlightened, blessed. Thats something even arahants dont have. A ...

Hi: What you said is true (it is easier to be happy about other people´s success when you also have it). So the advice would be: Be successful. But that is not all. For example, monks can easily be happy for the material gains of people, even if they dont have any. Why?, because they are not attache...