Monastics and suicide

[cappuccino]

Where does that question come from?

the heedless are as if dead already

You're being reckless???

I'm being tired

[thepea]

the heedless are as if dead already

You're being reckless???

I'm being tired

Then give it a rest.
Ba Dum Tshhh!

[cappuccino]

You're being reckless???

I'm being tired

Then give it a rest.

indeed

[Talisman25]

I have just learned of Bikkhu Samahita’s passing. I have read the comments and I feel that as Dhamma practitioners we are missing something very important.

Bikkhu Samahita was not only a monk he was also clearly an Ajahn or Dhamma teacher of the highest calibre: in that capacity his modern means of communicating the Dhamma reached many people, myself included.

Bikkhu Samahita was also a man dwelling in samsara : Jan Erik Hansen, thereby subject to the vicissitudes of life which as Bhuddists we attribute to past khamma ripening as khamma-vipaka.

I strongly believe that Ajahn Samahita’s dhamma teachings are ongoing if we choose to investigate further. I would like to follow those lessons in the context of a new thread. Ajahn Samahita has a dhamma teachings on you tube under “ Dhamma on air.”

I am going to open a new thread under one of those titles: The Ultimate Comeback Kid.” My intention is to continue my understanding of dhamma, I would ask that anyone who wishes to comment first watch the video for context.

[thepea]

I have just learned of Bikkhu Samahita’s passing. I have read the comments and I feel that as Dhamma practitioners we are missing something very important.

Bikkhu Samahita was not only a monk he was also clearly an Ajahn or Dhamma teacher of the highest calibre: in that capacity his modern means of communicating the Dhamma reached many people, myself included.

Bikkhu Samahita was also a man dwelling in samsara : Jan Erik Hansen, thereby subject to the vicissitudes of life which as Bhuddists we attribute to past khamma ripening as khamma-vipaka.

I strongly believe that Ajahn Samahita’s dhamma teachings are ongoing if we choose to investigate further. I would like to follow those lessons in the context of a new thread. Ajahn Samahita has a dhamma teachings on you tube under “ Dhamma on air.”

I am going to open a new thread under one of those titles: The Ultimate Comeback Kid.” My intention is to continue my understanding of dhamma, I would ask that anyone who wishes to comment first watch the video for context.

My original concern which has not been addressed is that the bhikku had been practicing his dhamma for decades I would have assumed the Kamma leading to him committing suicide would have been exhausted over this period of time.
It leads me to the concern of what exactly he was teaching and where do bhikku s recieve ajahn status from. It seems a system destined to promote the decline of dhamma where anyone in robes can declare them self a teacher, when seclusion and practice may be what they require.
I’m not drawing this as a conclusion to the bhikku, I’m just saying it isn’t sitting well with me and my understanding of dhamma.

[Garrib]

I have just learned of Bikkhu Samahita’s passing. I have read the comments and I feel that as Dhamma practitioners we are missing something very important.

Bikkhu Samahita was not only a monk he was also clearly an Ajahn or Dhamma teacher of the highest calibre: in that capacity his modern means of communicating the Dhamma reached many people, myself included.

Bikkhu Samahita was also a man dwelling in samsara : Jan Erik Hansen, thereby subject to the vicissitudes of life which as Bhuddists we attribute to past khamma ripening as khamma-vipaka.

I strongly believe that Ajahn Samahita’s dhamma teachings are ongoing if we choose to investigate further. I would like to follow those lessons in the context of a new thread. Ajahn Samahita has a dhamma teachings on you tube under “ Dhamma on air.”

I am going to open a new thread under one of those titles: The Ultimate Comeback Kid.” My intention is to continue my understanding of dhamma, I would ask that anyone who wishes to comment first watch the video for context.

My original concern which has not been addressed is that the bhikku had been practicing his dhamma for decades I would have assumed the Kamma leading to him committing suicide would have been exhausted over this period of time.
It leads me to the concern of what exactly he was teaching and where do bhikku s recieve ajahn status from. It seems a system destined to promote the decline of dhamma where anyone in robes can declare them self a teacher, when seclusion and practice may be what they require.
I’m not drawing this as a conclusion to the bhikku, I’m just saying it isn’t sitting well with me and my understanding of dhamma.

Does living in a remote jungle hermitage on a rural Sri Lankan mountain and practicing meditation there for years count as "seclusion" and "practice"? If so, then Bhante Samahita had seclusion and practice.

[thepea]

Does living in a remote jungle hermitage on a rural Sri Lankan mountain and practicing meditation there for years count as "seclusion" and "practice"? If so, then Bhante Samahita had seclusion and practice.

Understand I’m not stating facts from about the bhikku, but perhaps his elaborate internet teachings were a distraction from looking at the more deep rooted complexes. For example when something of this nature were to arise a nice little dhamma distraction on the internet was used like a drug to help to suppress this complex.
It is possible to use such things ones entire life and never once ever really face ones past kamma.

[cappuccino]

I would have assumed the Kamma leading to him committing suicide would have been exhausted over this period of time.

well… suicide is just dying early

[thepea]

I would have assumed the Kamma leading to him committing suicide would have been exhausted over this period of time.

well… suicide is just dying early

Not really.

[cappuccino]

well… suicide is just dying early

Not really.

how so?

[thepea]

well… suicide is just dying early

Not really.

how so?

It’s immoral. Nothing just about it.

[cappuccino]

Not really.

how so?

It’s immoral.

suicide is not well-thought-out

I guess

[cappuccino]

whenever I considered suicide:
either it was cruel to others, or (I foresaw) my future was good

[thepea]

whenever I considered suicide:
either it was cruel to others, or my future was good

Incomplete.

[cappuccino]

whenever I considered suicide:
either it was cruel to others, or my future was good

Incomplete.

my future was good