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If your goal is nibanna, then it is not necessary. What you need is wisdom - the ability to see the truth about no self, transcience, and sorrow. To do this, one need only relate each event/person to…

In Western Theravadin circles, these kinds of claims tend to come from students of Ajaan Chah, and they need to be understood in context. There's a mostly Theravadin discussion of a related assertio…

Everybody (without exception) in this world wants happiness and searches for happiness. If that's what we all want and are united in this goal of happiness, then why there are so much sufferings? Eve…

On this forum (and on others that I won't mention for fear of retaliation :eek: ), like in real life, there seems to be this "battle" when it comes to secularism and religion.

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So it looks like today I will be following the 6th precept (no food after noon/no dinner/no 3rd meal/1 big meal around lunch time), also known as Thanksgiving.

I don't see emptiness as a goal. Emptiness is simply a view of what is-dependent origination. Unobstructed awareness is a proper goal. Bringing the winds to dwell in the central channel is a prope…

This would probably piss off a lot of Hindus, and hopefully not Buddhists, though it's not an attempt at trolling. I genuinely think this is interesting. If it is or becomes too controversial I'm OK …

This sort of question depends on definitions.