If you have a good life and well provided for you could spend your time on contemplation. You could have a cup of hot coffee in front of your fire place and a good book on Abhidhamma or Psychology of Buddhism. Many working people don't really have such luxury by the time they finished their job the...

If you have a good life and well provided for you could spend your time on contemplation. You could have a cup of hot coffee in front of your fire place and a good book on Abhidhamma or Psychology of Buddhism. Many working people don't really have such luxury by the time they finished their job the...

Monks aren't rich and many are not intellectual.....does this mean that buddhism is not for many monks? If the only reason one doesn't study buddhism enough hours in a day is that one is not rich enough and does not have the intellectual motivation to find resources and study them ones self.....if ...

I have a B.Sc. which never amounted to anything. By my country’s standards - I’m poor. I save $400 a month; pay a ridiculous amount for rent... But my job allows me to meditate the entire time. I am supremely content with my arrangement. I would not want to be rich - I would not want such worldly p...

Kurt Cobain was rich and artistically gifted. He wrote songs about inner torment and suffered chronically from undiagnosed stomach pain. He began self medicating with heroin but didn’t believe he’d ever become addicted. His suicide note was addressed to an imaginary childhood friend named “Buddha”....

I have a B.Sc. which never amounted to anything. By my country’s standards - I’m poor. I save $400 a month; pay a ridiculous amount for rent... But my job allows me to meditate the entire time. I am supremely content with my arrangement. I would not want to be rich - I would not want such worldly p...

If you have a good life and well provided for you could spend your time on contemplation. You could have a cup of hot coffee in front of your fire place and a good book on Abhidhamma or Psychology of Buddhism. Many working people don't really have such luxury by the time they finished their job they...

Can we lose weight by thinking? Yes your comment is interesting because i have always thought you can control your weight by thinking. what i mean is not the simple "Think yourself thin" no, no way, such simple thought will make you lose weight. You lose weight by thinking can only be achieved by a...

There are useful things in the video. Useful for those who are just mild-to-medium depressed, or in remission. But I feel the Venerable doesn't grasp how paralysing depression or any mental illness can be in its acute phase. When it's utterly impossible to even have a shower or leave the house, let...

Virgo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:37 pm A video from Ajahn Yuttadhammo about dealing with the topics of Depression and Anxiety:



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Wonderful video I must say. Thank you Virgo. I find the explanation very clear and easy to understand. Once again thank you.

Hello Theravadins, I like to call myself a Theravadin because I just love that word it gives me a comfortable feeling just like comfort foods that gluttons take delight in. That feeling which arises and falls away in my neurons. Now let's get down to some serious thought and thinking. What is thinki...

Why? Haven't you heard what George Bernard Shaw the famous Irish intellectual said about dance? He said, " A dance is an expression of a vertical desire for a horizontal expression". In England many people make love after dancing I didn't know that until I went there. And I said to the English lady...

Why? Haven't you heard what George Bernard Shaw the famous Irish intellectual said about dance? He said, " A dance is an expression of a vertical desire for a horizontal expression". In England many people make love after dancing I didn't know that until I went there. And I said to the English lady,...

Speaking of the politics of the controversy, the group is extremely sectarian and pits one order or sect of monks above and against the rest. Additionally some (perhaps many) followers are financed or employed by the Chinese government in order to split the Tibetans and attack the Dalai Lama. This ...

I know members here will say "Why don't you pose this question on Dharma Wheel Forum, they are more familiar with Tibetan Buddhism". My answer is a big No because their answer will be biase and because they are very much into this Sect. You are misinformed. Discussion of the being you mention is ex...