I know what you mean exactly. But for us, the world looks fun.... but ultimately the Buddha said it's not a right view of the world because it's a lot of suffering, just that we cannot see it yet.

Because we suffer a lot in the world, maybe not so obvious in fortunate human existence but when you get born into areas of depravity like war-torn africa or born deficient or in miserable places, then this world isn't fun and that existence you wish you could be delivered from it but you are not in the position to break free at that time.

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Marriage is a human-created ceremony. It's technically not wrong to have sex between 2 consenting adults but they have to be sure they are not breaking the "sexual misconduct' precepts.

There are instances where sex shouldn't be done such as between male-woman of large age group (old man marry young women), or people under protection of their parents (underage people or people who cannot give you a valid consent to have sexual relation), people under vow of celibacy (holy people of any religion who undertake vow of celibacy), rape, etc, people who are married and under vow of their marriage.

Sexual misconduct happens when the sexual relation brings harm to either one party....

Abortion - breaking of 1st buddhist precept already...

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Aug 26 2011, 11:23 AM

Seriously, I needed to google to find out what fapping means. LOL

Masturbation is not a transgression of the buddhist 5 precepts. (sexual misconduct)

But if you are taking 8 precepts, then masturbation or any form of sexual activity is not allowed. If you fap during 8 precept, you automatically fall back to 5 precepts already.

Woot... visuddhi magga available online already

Theravada

They come along well because they merged into traditional chinese culture but you have to make some effort to find out what the Buddha taught exactly.

Not all deities are awakened, but we can find among them the Noble Ones (ariyas) too.

In fact, some deities are opposed to the Buddha's teaching. Most notably is Mara.

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Aug 27 2011, 10:48 PM

Buddhism also needs support from the laity to survive. I guess some adaptation to local culture is needed for it to connect to the locals. That being said, certain fundamentals in Buddhism ought to be known clearly like the ones you mentioned - giving donations, learning the true dhamma, meditation.

Discovering yourself, self purification, happiness and ending of suffering.

Learning to let go of things, to recognize them as they are and move on with life. That's a way to put it.

Many types of suffering that causes unhappiness - get what you don't want, don't get what you want, associated with people you don't like, separated with people you love, etc....

Reference from Sutta Pitaka


This post has been edited by soul2soul: Sep 8 2011, 08:36 AM

I rike.

never better! how about you yourself?

many people angry , maybe lost money in stock market?

Nirvana is an unconditioned state. There is nothing to last or not last...

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Sep 27 2011, 08:08 AM

The Ten Kasinas

1. earth (paṭhavī kasiṇa),
2. water (āpo kasiṇa),
3. air, wind (vāyo kasiṇa),
4. fire (tejo kasiṇa),
5. blue, green (nīla kasiṇa),
6. yellow (pīta kasiṇa),
7. red (lohita kasiṇa),
8. white (odāta kasiṇa),
9. enclosed space, hole, aperture (ākāsa kasiṇa),
10. bright light (āloka kasiṇa).

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Sep 28 2011, 12:32 PM

I am not sure about Subang but you can try Selangor Buddhist Vipassana Meditation society at their PJ branch. They do invite monks to give talk from time to time. This sunday got one monk coming to talk. Mostly in English.

You can also drop by Bricksfield MahaVihara and register your email with the staff there. They do have lots of speaker who come to KL to give talk from time to time, including Ajahn Brahm, Burmese monks, etc.

It's good to connect with the dhamma again. This chance is very hard to come by in our wandering in Samsara.

Pm me if you need the details.

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Sep 28 2011, 01:56 PM

Work work

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Oct 11 2011, 08:38 AM

Interesting, Hotjake, have you ever tried Kasina meditation?

I know a bit of the theory, but I am not sure if there are any masters in KL to teach it. I heard it's quite popular in certain monasteries in Burma (samatha-based) and also in Thailand.

I think in KL the most popular samatha is ANapanasati and Metta. Other than that, maybe I am just being ignorant, I am not sure of the other Samatha being taught widely.

It is indeed.

I think Kasina meditation normally taught to monks and they practice it in seclusion.

I came across a sutta where the Buddha gave an advice on graduated training to a lay disciples (upasaka) and recommended him to undertake Loving Kindness meditation , and if possible the best is to do Vipassana. (gain insight). I can't remember the sutta's name, but it goes something like this

"good to do dana to the Buddha, better to the entire Sangha, better than that have confidence in the Tripple Gem, better than that undertake sila training (morality), better than that Loving kindness, better than that gain Insight."

Can anyone find this sutta?

p/s I think basically we do Metta and Vipassana, we won't be very wrong in our practice within this lifetime. and maybe this is why metta/vipassana is taught widely to the lay disciples.

This post has been edited by soul2soul: Oct 13 2011, 08:29 AM