bpallister wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:15 am
i almost killed an ant yesterday trying to get him off me.
You have the freedom to defend yourself from harm or trespass.
Now was it the sensation of the ant climbing on you that provoked fear or was it a fire ant that can cause unpleasantness. If you were aware of the situation and chose to calmly remove the ant and it’s killed accidentally then this is not destructive. If there was no danger and one loses the balance of mind and blindly lashes and kills then this is destructive killing.
If there was danger and one consciously smacks the ant then this is self defence and not destructive.
he was climbing up my leg and i kinda shook him off but almost stepped on him. i was aware of the situation
Good. I don't kill insects. I just shoosh them away.
You have the freedom to defend yourself from harm or trespass.
Now was it the sensation of the ant climbing on you that provoked fear or was it a fire ant that can cause unpleasantness. If you were aware of the situation and chose to calmly remove the ant and it’s killed accidentally then this is not destructive. If there was no danger and one loses the balance of mind and blindly lashes and kills then this is destructive killing.
If there was danger and one consciously smacks the ant then this is self defence and not destructive.
he was climbing up my leg and i kinda shook him off but almost stepped on him. i was aware of the situation
Good for you.
I don't kill insects. I just shoosh them away. Even the smallest of creatures are trying to be happy.
You have the freedom to defend yourself from harm or trespass.
Now was it the sensation of the ant climbing on you that provoked fear or was it a fire ant that can cause unpleasantness. If you were aware of the situation and chose to calmly remove the ant and it’s killed accidentally then this is not destructive. If there was no danger and one loses the balance of mind and blindly lashes and kills then this is destructive killing.
If there was danger and one consciously smacks the ant then this is self defence and not destructive.
he was climbing up my leg and i kinda shook him off but almost stepped on him. i was aware of the situation
Good. I don't kill insects. I just shoosh them away.
All living being want to be happy.
I was discussing bed bugs, lice in a child’s hair, how would you deal with bed bugs?
he was climbing up my leg and i kinda shook him off but almost stepped on him. i was aware of the situation
Good. I don't kill insects. I just shoosh them away.
All living being want to be happy.
I was discussing bed bugs, lice in a child’s hair, how would you deal with bed bugs?
Sleep on the floor and don't have children
“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.”
thepea wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 2:50 am
A stream enterer has passed through the stages of insight.
Precepts are merely for developing samadhi.
You don’t “get into” sotapanna, you pass through these wisdoms when ripe to do so. These wisdoms prevent one(through liberation) from carrying fear in the mind capable of generating thought formations of the lower planes. The thought I will catch a fish to feed my family is not of the lower planes.
No insight in your case. First insight of DO is precepts, hence one maintain perfect precepts to proceed further.
If you think you have psychic power, please check with Yama.
Ask him whether you are in lower plane list or not. Hopefully he said yes, then you know you have delusional insight.
May you be relax, happy, comfortable and free of dukkhas from hearing true dhamma.
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Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 12:09 am
Sleep on the floor and don't have children
Such extremist view. This is not the middle way.
Monks sleep on the floor and don't have children (at least, not after ordaining). Are they extreme?
I was referring to a situation where a layman had bedbugs or child had lice, it’s extremism to abandon your bed and sleep on the floor or to abandon your daughter/son.
Ceisiwr’s answer is extremism and not the middle way.
cappuccino wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 5:42 pm
Buddhism leads to heavenly realms
Have you checked the heaven lately? Wait you can’t because one needs to have good morality to know heavens.
Actually all religions teach heaven. So your statement is not correct as well.
Not all beings in heaven identify as a buddhist.
Btw, Wrong view and bad acts (such as killing) still leads to lower realms whether you identify as buddhist or not.
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Sam Vara wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:11 pm
His statement is still correct, regardless of what other religions teach.
Nope. I said incorrect with his below view.
Cap wrote:Even a small kill will … it may make you sick
A small kill will land you in lower realm.
Btw, Have you seen any buddhist leads to heaven? Most buddhists nowadays gone to lower realms. Do you know that?
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