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Re: Do Buddhists eat donuts?
You’d have to consider whether the oil in which the donut was fried was vegetable oil.
It’s a tricky subject…
Jeroen
Re: Do Buddhists eat donuts?
If a donut was put into a renunciates bowl, they would eat it.
If they had knowledge that a donut was killed as a deliberate offering for a renunciate, some might decline that offering as its own teaching.
I think that the middle way in donut consumption is to
Think deeply of the ways and means by which that donut has come.
To consider ones merit in accepting it.
To protect oneself from error by excluding greed from ones mind.
To eat so that one doesn't become lean and die.
To eat so that one might continue practicing.
And perhaps not just do alms wanderings around dessert shops.
how
Re: The Three Jewels, Five Precepts and Delusion
I want to start on the path, but not in a self-deluded way
You are on the path. We are all deluded to a lesser or greater degree. We could all do with more practice. More 'Precious Jewels', as we say in Tantra Vajrayana.
Take a deep breath and...
https://buddhaweekly.com/no-time-for-daily-buddhist-practice-chant-a-mantra-a-complete-meditation-and-practice-in-a-few-precious-syllables-protection-for-the-mind-all-of-dharma-in-one-mantra/
lobster
Re: The Three Jewels, Five Precepts and Delusion
@lobster said:
This may seem a silly question but do you know how to breath?
I can always use more practice. 
Re: What movies are you watching?
Deadpool and Wolverine is streaming on Disney+ now. They didn't Disneyfy it, it still has all the old Deadpool sarcastic nihilism. So if you liked the other Deadpool's you'll like this one.
person
Re: The Three Jewels, Five Precepts and Delusion
Quality as @Shoshin1 says...
This may seem a silly question but do you know how to breath?
lobster
Re: What movies are you watching?
I'm enjoying Arcane on Netflix. I don't normally go for animated stuff, but I really like the style of this and I'm drawn to the magicy steam punkish theme. More than that though the story has nuance and moral complexity. There aren't teams of people that are good vs teams of people who are bad, like in something like Star Wars. There's a heavy class element in the world, but there are upper and lower class individuals who are good and there are those who are bad. And the good and bad are complex as well, two people with good intentions can be at conflict due to differing values or focuses.
person
Re: Not chasing pleasure nor avoiding pain
@Jeroen said:
In enduring the sunshine and the rain, and not being easily moved, I have found a kind of wisdom about the passing nature of things. I have been a witness to good events and bad, and have found that with patience personal happiness tends to return.
Happiness for me has tended to be about giving attention on the good things in life, and just letting the bad things come and go, taking note of them without letting them take over. That way, the good things get bigger in your optics, and the bad things become more bearable.
Nothing lasts, as Terence McKenna said — nothing lasts. And that is good, that the old and out-dated makes place for the young and the new. It is an engine with which Mother Nature keeps fitting things together in working systems of plants and animals.
And so it is that many problems solve themselves with time. Being aware of the world around you can tell you which things are likely to resolve on their own, and which require intervention.
Jeroen