Can I become a monk after I get married?
Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
You can say the word. Sex.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:12 am i dont know but why cant you be single and become monk? why u want to marry? is it for xx?
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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No, i feel shy because it is too vulgur to use on buddhist forumsCeisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:18 pmYou can say the word. Sex.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:12 am i dont know but why cant you be single and become monk? why u want to marry? is it for xx?
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I'm not sure I understand this view.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:49 amNo, i feel shy because it is too vulgur to use on buddhist forumsCeisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:18 pmYou can say the word. Sex.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:12 am i dont know but why cant you be single and become monk? why u want to marry? is it for xx?
What makes the word sex too vulgar?
Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden; so too is he content with a set of robes to provide for his body and almsfood to provide for his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only his barest necessities along. This is how a monk is content.(DN11)
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Pls dont.. its vulgar for me... its too straightDhammapardon wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:04 pmI'm not sure I understand this view.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:49 amNo, i feel shy because it is too vulgur to use on buddhist forums
What makes the word sex too vulgar?
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
In my view, if we are honest and truthful/straight forward, our heart becomes clean. As long as we are not using abusive words, it's ok. Sex is not an abusive word. It's just being straight, if you try to hide what you feel or trying to express by using other words, it's like you are trying to hide something or trying to lie, and your heart won't be clean. Any case, up to you how you want to say it. It's just my view.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:31 pmPls dont.. its vulgar for me... its too straightDhammapardon wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:04 pmI'm not sure I understand this view.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:49 am
No, i feel shy because it is too vulgur to use on buddhist forums
What makes the word sex too vulgar?
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
If you don't feel comfortable using the word, don't use it.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:49 amNo, i feel shy because it is too vulgur to use on buddhist forumsCeisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:18 pmYou can say the word. Sex.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:12 am i dont know but why cant you be single and become monk? why u want to marry? is it for xx?
XX is just silly - a real waste of time, a real hindrance towards enlightenment.
Always best to become a monk, if possible (most cannot, however, for various reasons).
Peace and enlightenment.
May we all fulfill our deepest wish for happiness
We are already Buddha
We are already Buddha
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Sorry for guiding you wrong, I myself I'm deluded.Jinny999 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:45 pmIn my view, if we are honest and truthful/straight forward, our heart becomes clean. As long as we are not using abusive words, it's ok. Sex is not an abusive word. It's just being straight, if you try to hide what you feel or trying to express by using other words, it's like you are trying to hide something or trying to lie, and your heart won't be clean. Any case, up to you how you want to say it. It's just my view.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:31 pmPls dont.. its vulgar for me... its too straightDhammapardon wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:04 pm
I'm not sure I understand this view.
What makes the word sex too vulgar?
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We all are.
May we all see more clearly, without delusion, as did the Holy Buddha.
Peace and enlightenment.
May we all fulfill our deepest wish for happiness
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
hmmDhammapardon wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:04 pm I'm not sure I understand this view.
What makes the word sex too vulgar?
https://suttacentral.net/mn124/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin wrote: “But in these eighty years, how many times have you had sex?”
“You shouldn’t ask me such a question.
Rather, you should ask me this:
‘But in these eighty years, how many times have sensual perceptions ever arisen in you?’”
Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
One thing I can say is that the later you start it, the harder the monk's life will be for you. The earlier you start, the easier it will be to adapt to the lifestyle. Therefore you will make more progress if you start earlier.
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
Sure, but how many lay people do become Arahants?Jinny999 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:36 amNa, I have thought a lot about it already. I have read that even lay people can become arahat, only that they will leave the body that day, I don't have problem with this, lay people can keep sila, can meditate just like monk.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:12 am i dont know but why cant you be single and become monk? why u want to marry? is it for xx?
Some did traditionally but obviously they had done a lot of work towards it in past lives.
A layperson can keep sila, but the monk practices celibacy as well as many other training rules. When these rules are practiced, one can fully understand their own defilements because they see their power fully as they try to restrain them. Then the person's meditation can go in the right direction.
The monk's lifestyle is a higher lifestyle.
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Re: Can I become a monk after I get married?
I'm not sure I understand.auto wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:02 pmhmmDhammapardon wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:04 pm I'm not sure I understand this view.
What makes the word sex too vulgar?https://suttacentral.net/mn124/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin wrote: “But in these eighty years, how many times have you had sex?”
“You shouldn’t ask me such a question.
Rather, you should ask me this:
‘But in these eighty years, how many times have sensual perceptions ever arisen in you?’”
Sensual perceptions are a finer realization of what abstaining from intercourse aims for. First, one abstains from intercourse. Then one abstains from physical acts of self pleasure. Then one abstains from thoughts of pleasure and so on. Continuing refinement from coarse to fine.
Who asks an 80 year Dhamma practitioner how many times they got laid? An old friend from the lay life, that's who.
I assume hopefully that those with understanding would have some respect for the potential level of refinement achieved after 80 years of dedicated practice and trust they are working on eradication of sensual perception rather than still struggling to abstain from intercourse.
The translation almost sounds like Ven. Bakkula takes offense. Don't assume because it sounds like Ven. Bakkula took offense that they actually took offense. Maybe they were attempting to correct wrong view of the lay questioner from coarse to fine. Saying "Don't ask about intercourse, ask about the finer understanding of arisen desires of sense pleasure". I am not a fan of a certain narration of MN124 due to this particular verbal inference. It leads one to believe Ven. Bakkula became offended at the quality of words in the question which I find quite silly.
Unless of course it's my inference I hear and the Venerable's potential offendedness is toward his lay buddy's missing of the finer question for the coarse question. But this has less to do with termenology and more to do with refinement of understanding.
So I'm still not sure I understand how the word is too vulgar to say or type. I see it as a tool for practicing our own refinement through observing mind and body reaction to the word.
I believe it was Venerable Thanissaro who said "Watch the fear, not the tiger". Or something to that effect.
Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden; so too is he content with a set of robes to provide for his body and almsfood to provide for his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only his barest necessities along. This is how a monk is content.(DN11)
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Bakkula were savaka path follower and an anagami, given he mentions two fetters ill-will and sensual perception not arising.
Can read from some other sutta that without sensual perceptions, xx can't happen. Other words he might have referred to the dependent origination, that he should ask about perceptions instead, since when they are not present then also no xx possible. And he were anagami 80 years without sensual perceptions then can assume also no xx. Also it would be wrong to answer "i haven't had any xx" as an savaka path follower.
Interesting is that then he didn't had internal copulation between yin and yang either. Like hibernating 80 years.
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interesting to note isDhammapardon wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 6:00 am Sensual perceptions are a finer realization of what abstaining from intercourse aims for. First, one abstains from intercourse. Then one abstains from physical acts of self pleasure. Then one abstains from thoughts of pleasure and so on. Continuing refinement from coarse to fine.
the kamasanna is sometimes translated as sensual desirehttps://suttacentral.net/mn124/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin wrote:‘But in these eighty years, how many times have sensual perceptions ever arisen in you?’”
‘imehi pana te, āvuso bākula, asītiyā vassehi katikkhattuṁ kāmasaññā uppannapubbā’”ti?
which make me think kamasanna overall still means the kamacchanda. It is hindrance what prevents one to enter the jhana.https://suttacentral.net/an3.33/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin wrote:‘The giving up of sensual desires
‘Pahānaṁ kāmasaññānaṁ,
and aversions, both;
domanassāna cūbhayaṁ;
the dispelling of dullness,
Thinassa ca panūdanaṁ,
and the prevention of remorse.
kukkuccānaṁ nivāraṇaṁ.
The idea is that the mind still knows sensual perceptions, but they don't arise within/related to a person/ajjhatta, which would prevent one to realize jhana. But i think many don't go by that that there is the mind and a person - They need think some other idea.https://suttacentral.net/mn48/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin wrote: ‘Is there anything that I’m overcome with internally and haven’t given up, because of which I might not accurately know and see?’
If a mendicant is overcome with sensual desire, it’s their mind that’s overcome.
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They understand,
So evaṁ pajānāti:
‘There is nothing that I’m overcome with internally and haven’t given up, because of which I might not accurately know and see.
‘natthi kho me taṁ pariyuṭṭhānaṁ ajjhattaṁ appahīnaṁ, yenāhaṁ pariyuṭṭhānena pariyuṭṭhitacitto yathābhūtaṁ nappajāneyyaṁ na passeyyaṁ.
getting pass the desire, to have internally arisen sensual pleasure, requires jhana i believe. Pitisukha substitutes the sensual pleasure, while the result is same, it doesn't overwhelm the mind what would prevent investigation of principles(dhammatakka) to occur,
I agree it is refinement from coarse to fine.wrote:Pure equanimity and mindfulness,
Upekkhāsatisaṁsuddhaṁ,
preceded by investigation of principles—
dhammatakkapurejavaṁ;
this, I declare, is liberation by enlightenment,
Aññāvimokkhaṁ pabrūmi,
the smashing of ignorance.’”
avijjāya pabhedanan’”ti.