@zombiegirl Not that I think you have an eating disorder, of course, but I've never understand why people react to those who do have eating disorders, with hatred and vitriol. I have lost two friends…

http://www.palicanon.org/en/sutta-pitaka/downloads-group1/digha-nikaya.html

I would cry - for sadness - and for joy. A month is no time at all.

No, my friend was female, and had a male traveling companion who had a conversation with a young monk. The pronoun "her" modifying "male traveling companion" refers back to the s…

Vajrayana Buddhism teaches to use desire and lust in order to overcome them, and reach enlightenment. A friend of mine who just returned from Ladakh said a young monk talking with her male traveling…

Vajrayana Buddhism teaches to use desire and lust in order to overcome them, and reach enlightenment. A friend of mine who just returned from Ladakh said a young monk talking with her male traveling…

The Buddhist community in my town will not ordain anyone under the age of twenty-two - and that's in England, where the legal minimum age for most other things is 18. I saw in another thread that you…

I think @Brian makes good points, and I should have posted something to outline my agreement with him. I don't think, at age 17, celibacy and the "killing" of sexual desire is necessarily s…

Dude, you're 17. Stop fighting your biology. Just ride the wave. Understand that it is a fundamental part of your body and brain to want sex. It's a natural desire and there is nothing wrong with it.…

well that type of wakeing up would help but i cant get there if im sleepy. any who, i go to bed between 10pm and 4 am. and im 17.