This is from the biography of Ajahn Chah, where it is described from the viewpoint of monastics, which benefits the alms-round should bring for the laypeople. https://www.abhayagiri.org/books/617-stillness-flowing p.261 The Vinaya forbids monks from begging for food from laypeople. Monks on alms-rou...

A nun in Taiwan gave birth.[40] Some Korean monks live with wives in their monasteries.[41] :rofl: This is enough me for the day! I think, SarathW, you need to ask yourself, which particular aspects of Theravada orthodoxy you yourself value and would follow. Then, if you have identified a lineage o...

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Edit: saw the edit of @Manopubbangama; so no need to use less subtle language to make my point.

And as long as such individuals continue to label themselves by their alien ideology that guides them, I will continue to mention it, and say that I politely disagree with it. If I am truly forced to be 'the heritic' and show how incredibly non-feminist Buddhism is, I will have no issue doing so: B...

Manopubbangama wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:26 pm SarathW, do you have a link for his orphanage?

More info and a direct link to donate is right on the website of the Uganda Buddhist Centre; https://ugandabuddhistcenter.org/peace-school/

Just note who is promoting alien ideas such as: fascism (Evola), feminism (sujato), socialism (buddadhasa) and compare that to those who teach the dhamma without such alien ideas. The Buddha gave us the charter of free inquiry. I always find it dangerous to put politically charged labels on the tea...

:goodpost: I would favour the most congenial approach, which is to accept that anyone who has accepted the going forth in any of the Theravadan lineages is a Theravadan monk. One is then free to say, of course, that one does not find their teaching accessible or acceptable. But it avoids disputes ov...

"In the case of pleasant feelings, O monks, the underlying tendency to lust should be given up; in the case of painful feelings, the underlying tendency to resistance (aversion) should be given up; in the case of neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings, the underlying tendency to ignorance shoul...

I think you have a good plan; now you will need to keep to it :-) In nowadays time, where you have the knowledge of humanity at the click of a mouse, it is easy to research to your hearts delight. So within a short time, you will be able to evaluate, if Theravada Buddhism is indeed for you (as, from...

From what I have observed from my years in Thailand, at least in the far rural areas, there was a strong tradition of visiting temples and making merit even within the young generation. It would have been extremely rare to see young people without their little cords from the temple around the wrist;...

Translation doesn't seem to be very literal, and actually quite free. Here is my attempt to do it literally: She, having heard the dhamma, having obtained the fruit of sakadāgāmī, having been just (eva) a virgin/maiden, with a such kind of sickness/discomfort afflicted, having stopped food, having ...

For one who has piti, the senses are stressful. For one who sukha, piti is stressful. For one who has equanimity, sukha is stressful. For one who has non-existence, equanimity is stressful. There is no more Buddha until the next one. Nibbana isn't annihilation because there is nothing to annihilate...

voluntary starvation She couldn't eat due to her depression. She wasn't trying to starve to death. It's interesting that she was a sakadagami and had depression. A modern trend found in some Buddhists is the "arahantification of sotapannas" believing sotapannas are almost on a par with ar...

afaik it is based on the story complementing the 18th verse of the Dhammapada but the voluntary starvation is afaik from the commentary to the story, probably from the Dhammapadatthakatha but i am not sure because i have not read it myself and afaik there are no translations into english. I also do...