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BhanteLucky · Alternative lifestyle person in the South Island of New Zealand · Veteran
About
- Username
- BhanteLucky
- Location
- New Zealand
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- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 829
- Location
- New Zealand
- Languages Spoken
- English
- Affiliation
- Theravada Forest Tradition
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Re: how to develop mindfulness? please suggest.
Formal meditation, sitting down and being aware, and doing mindfulness meditation. Eventually it starts percolating over into your normal life. You carry the mindfulness of the formal sitting into da… (View Post)
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Re: Meat Eating and Mahayana
(Quote) Wat Pah Nanachat in Thailand tried to go vegetarian, and the laypeople didn't like it. The laypeople brought food to the monastery that they themselves liked, that they were familiar with, an… (View Post)2 -
Re: How to prove reincarnation/rebirth?
Yeah, case studies like what Ian Stevenson did; finding a recent case, finding the supposed previous family, and test the accuracy of the reported statements by the child. Repeat that hundreds of tim… (View Post)
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Re: Just what's in those bowls?
I went on alms round once, with a monk in a western country. No begging, just standing with an open bowl. We got a lot of subway sandwiches, soda, and candy. Not too healthy, but it was proof a mendi… (View Post)1 -
Re: The Western Psyche
At my local monastery there are three Germans... wait, four, if you include the Austrian (sorry Austrians!), and they say Theravada is much more popular than Zen/Mahayana with Germans. They explicitl… (View Post)1