Avoin Sangha

I like your style even if I disagree with you. :angel5: That is maybe because you seek for identification and mating targets rather that for wisdom. :) To get save of Mara is not no picnic and that is why this battle has a dimension far above Well there are women who are really beautiful and can fu...

Thanks for you practical sample, so we have also a actually sample to understand what the topic is about. Very wrong, very wrong! Perfect nowadays misleading. You what mate? I am not sure if I did get you right: you're implying that shamatha-meditation and/or four foundations are somehow basis for w...

More than 400 of the 550 Jataka stories are now given as a Dhamma-Dana, generously provided by "Pali Text Society". There are still missing cross links throughout the ZzE-enviroment and missing verse numbers. If you wish to help and do some works, please feel invited. Of course it's alread...

I was talking recently with to someone who had given a gift to a lay-run meditation center last year. He came back this year to find that it disappeared. When he asked the people at the center about this they said: "Well, that's impermanence." Which is not the Dharma of the Buddha. There ...

Anyone can always live as a recluse in a cave if (s)he likes. I don't think so *smile* Try it. I fear 99,5% could not even live without handy and electricity not to speak of not gaining food like this or that... In the end maybe it's right way to live, the true holy path no one else understands. It...

Lee, I don't think that you have an idea of what the holy life is about and the Dhamma. And to be or not to be is even not a question. Maybe you are able to figure it out when reflecting a little and you can be sure that is still not the pick of life's reality: http://media5.onsugar.com/files/2011/0...

Thanks for the generosity of sharing this! Not easy and not sure. Not to speak of ensnarement of Mara, approaching on one or the other of the six sense bases and he knows how to feed doubts. Some days ago I translated a very important lesson, I like to share with all of you: There was once a western...

I hate cannabis it makes me feel sick No need to let hatred arise. Clear knowing "such is not for a good", reflecting the dangers, give rise to kusala efforts, encourage others to abstain form akusala and turn to kusala, is quite enough. How ever, dislike and refusal is better as "ho...

Maybe in addition, as some might thing, just if one by oneself leads a unwholesome deed physical, has impacts: "Endowed with three things, as lead and lain, is in hell. What three? One self ..., incites others ... and approves ... Endowed with three things, as lead and lain, is in heaven. What ...