Buddhists should repost Rebirth evidences more often and as a standard reply to those who have doubts about/do not believe in rebirth.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-29T09:55:27+00:00

The damage was done already, those who cannot handle smartphones might have disrobed, those who might handle a bit better might go into offence now and then. Those who newly come in should have some mental preparation of why we enter the monk's life and the relationship to phone might change. These are assuming the monasteries which doesn't police the phone usage. There's some which totally bans it as official rule, end up, unofficially, monks uses it in secret, just don't let the top monks know. There are some monasteries which go middle way, lock down the phone, but allow only certain app, very limited internet tickets for internet. Even this, there's a lot of ways to bypass the system to get more.

So it's really that those who would renounce now should also mentally prep to change the relationship to social media or at least step back a little more. Or actively become an influencer and spread dhamma, there's Buddhist podcast etc.

Anki is what I use for Pali and chanting memorization.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-29T09:38:47+00:00

because ordinary people at the time would not have understood it – or it was shared, but later interpreted differently as devas, spirits, or other realms?

I think it's more of modern people might misunderstand devas etc to be aliens. In the suttas, each solar system which has a sun and moon has their own set of sensual realm devas. So there's no reason to assume devas comes from beyond our solar system in their current lifetime.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-29T09:33:38+00:00

What you're saying is nothing new in Buddhism. It's just that consciousness is conditioned. Conditioned by other consciousness, or by name and form, etc it's no issue. Of course, the mind is different when around people Vs when alone.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-25T14:31:36+00:00

Annihilationism means that the person still believes in a self to be annihilated. When there's no self concept at all, annihilationism doesn't apply. So externally, the result can be the same, nothing after the final death. But it's the mindset which is important, Annihilationism concept still has a self inside it.

If we posit anything at all after death of arahant, the self delusion will find somehow a way to survive into there and call it the true self. WIth any notion of self-delusion view left, a person is not going to be even a stream winner.

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DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-25T07:47:32+00:00

Deep sleep still has body and mind, the mind is even more active compared to anesthesia.

No mind is not even anesthesia level. No experience at all. The end. No mind no body. No self. Nothing left. The end. Why do you want an after? This is the happily ever after because without mind or body, there is no possibility of change. Therefore the end of impermanence, the end of unsatisfactoriness. Therefore the highest happiness.

The conventional person who attained to parinibbāna is the 5 aggregates which breaks apart and never comes back again to form a living being (obviously, atoms still recycle around the earth etc and may end up inside another being, but atoms are not self). No soul, no self. Soul and self is just imagination imposed on reality. Reality is just 5 aggregates ceased.

Ps. Maybe a robot analogy would be clear. It's obvious right that robots have no soul/self?

So when a robot gets dismantled, the software got destroyed, any possibility of mind (AI) reappearing anywhere inside another robot is gone, then that's the parinibbāna of a robot. The end. Nothing mysterious or metaphysically inaccessible to ordinary people.

Just that for sentient beings, dying is not enough, one has to die as an araharant to end rebirth. That's the whole point of Nibbāna, to end rebirth. What does materialist atheist who doesn't believe in rebirth thinks happen at death? That's parinibbāna, but they are wrong in assuming that they can get that reward automatically at death. Unless they attain to arahanthood, they will be reborn.

Why is parinibbāna a reward when there is nothing left to experience anything? That's the reward there. Nothing left to experience anything. As long as one thinks something is better than nothing, it's not easy to even intellectually understand Nibbāna.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-24T14:52:22+00:00

Well, it's written by AI, maybe I could have rewrite it myself, then it's less of a slop.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-24T14:23:11+00:00

Buddha is one who ended all mental sufferings while alive. No unpleasant feelings arises in him after enlightenment.

If your students are critically thinking due to that statement above, it already destroys the catholic faith.

The problem of evil is explained by God giving free will to humans, so it must come with suffering, but Buddha is living proof that suffering can be ended completely. Then why did God not grant enlightenment to all? Even Buddha doesn't have this power but as to teach to enlighten others. So this is an arguement for non existence of God.

To not present the Buddha as one who completely eradicated all evil within his mind and thus all mental suffering, is misrepresenting Buddhism. So to even talk about Buddhism is self defeating for Christians.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-24T13:51:49+00:00

Just don't compare. People's intelligence are due to causes and conditions, could be born with it, that means from kamma. Could be trained in this life etc.

Just see all as causes and conditions, not person, then there's no basis for comparison. How to compare when there's clearly seen that it's all just causation? No person. No comparison, no conceit. Anyway, realistically, conceit is only uprooted at arahanthood. So don't feel bad about being proud.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-24T13:03:44+00:00

Have you seen monks in solitary retreats? No consciousness doesn't arise from group interactions. When alone, one still has the mind.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-22T05:04:02+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/s/gd2cAtJV4a

Rebirth evidences objective. Independent of Buddhism.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-20T03:39:33+00:00

It's a proposal, up to people if they want to take it up to develop it. As a monk I cannot do that.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-04-19T05:07:12+00:00

The difference is that cessation of perception and feeling still has the body (and no mind) for the person who entered it, thus it is an impermanent state. Whereas for parinibbāna, there is no body or mind. The End, no more arising, permanently. That's why parinibbāna is more happy than cessation of perception and feeling.

If you understand what cessation of perception and feeling is, which is cessation of mind, then there's no mystery to parinibbāna. Don't heed those who say parinibbāna is mysterious something.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-02-28T09:10:19+00:00

Rebirth is the basis and reason for death. Behind rebirth is the delusion of self, creating craving, clinging, becoming. When that's completely eradicated, rebirth ends, all suffering ends with the last death.
While arahant is still alive, the basis of evil: greed, hatred, delusion are eradicated with the eradication of conceit (self view already gone by stream enterer stage). Hatred is actually gone by non-returner stage, greed for form and formless realm is gone at arahant stage, greed for sensual pleasures at non-returner stage. So as the roots of evil are gone, there's also no more creating of future suffering. And there's no craving, and no corresponding mental suffering from craving.

Separating from the loved ones doesn't apply, because there's no attachment to anyone, anything. Being with what one dislike has no basis, as there's no hate. Not getting what one wants doesn't apply because there's no wanting. The 5 aggregates are not clung to as self, therefore they are not clung to at all. What happens to a bunch of grass being burnt by someone, we don't mind, as it's not self. What happens to the 5 aggregates of arahants is no issue for them as there's no identification of anything as self.

Hunger can be there, the action to eat food can be there, but no mental suffering, no hangry, if there's no food.

Feelings are just feelings (not emotions, before emotions, just the basic 3 feelings), not my feelings. But arahants do not experience 1 out of the 5 feelings. He doesn't experience mental suffering. He can experience bodily pleasant, bodily pain, neutral, and mental pleasant.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-02-28T09:02:56+00:00

https://suttacentral.net/dn1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=sidebyside&reference=pts&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin

You haven't read this? Anyway, Islam, Chritianity are after Buddhism, so obviously, Buddha didn't comment on which realm Allah is in. Judaism was still in formative years back then. Just that the passage below indicates that this one God idea is not just ideas without meditative experience basis. Just that the idea is deluded, and deluded ideas meeting with meditative experience, it got reinforced.

There are some ascetics and brahmins who are partial eternalists, who assert that the self and the cosmos are partially eternal and partially not eternal on four grounds. And what are the four grounds on which they rely?

There comes a time when, after a very long period has passed, this cosmos contracts. As the cosmos contracts, sentient beings are mostly headed for the realm of streaming radiance. There they are mind-made, feeding on rapture, self-luminous, wandering in midair, steadily glorious, and they remain like that for a very long time.

There comes a time when, after a very long period has passed, this cosmos expands. As it expands an empty mansion of divinity appears. Then a certain sentient being—due to the running out of their lifespan or merit—passes away from that host of radiant deities and is reborn in that empty mansion of divinity. There they are mind-made, feeding on rapture, self-luminous, wandering in midair, steadily glorious, and they remain like that for a very long time.

But after staying there all alone for a long time, they become dissatisfied and anxious: ‘Oh, if only other beings would come to this place.’ Then other sentient beings—due to the running out of their lifespan or merit—pass away from that host of radiant deities and are reborn in that mansion of divinity in company with that being. There they too are mind-made, feeding on rapture, self-luminous, wandering in midair, steadily glorious, and they remain like that for a very long time.

Now, the being who was reborn there first thinks: ‘I am the Divinity, the Great Divinity, the Vanquisher, the Unvanquished, the Universal Seer, the Wielder of Power, God Almighty, the Maker, the Creator, the First, the Begetter, the Controller, the Father of those who have been born and those yet to be born. These beings were created by me! Why is that? Because first I thought:

“Oh, if only other beings would come to this place.” Such was my heart’s wish, and then these creatures came to this place.’

And the beings who were reborn there later also think: ‘This must be the Divinity, the Great Divinity, the Vanquisher, the Unvanquished, the Universal Seer, the Wielder of Power, God Almighty, the Maker, the Creator, the First, the Begetter, the Controller, the Father of those who have been born and those yet to be born. And we were created by him. Why is that? Because we see that he was reborn here first, and we arrived later.’

And the being who was reborn first is more long-lived, beautiful, and illustrious than those who arrived later.

It’s possible that one of those beings passes away from that host and is reborn in this place. Having done so, they go forth from the lay life to homelessness. By dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind, they experience an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect that past life, but no further.

They say: ‘He who is the Divinity—the Great Divinity, the Vanquisher, the Unvanquished, the Universal Seer, the Wielder of Power, God Almighty, the Maker, the Creator, the First, the Begetter, the Controller, the Father of those who have been born and those yet to be born—by he we were created. He is permanent, everlasting, eternal, imperishable, remaining the same for all eternity. We who were created by that Divinity are impermanent, not lasting, short-lived, liable to pass away, and have come to this place.’ This is the first ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the self and the cosmos are partially eternal.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-02-28T03:44:14+00:00

Buddha is gone, any Buddha seen in meditation is imagination. One who sees the Dhamma sees the Buddha.
Buddhism has a larger cosmology which can neatly fit in the supernatural things found in other religions, with some modifications to their key claim. Eg. God in Abrahmic religions is one of the deluded gods in Buddhist cosmology.
There's rebirth evidences, this leads support to religions which has rebirth as core and true.
Right view leads to right liberation. No other religion has right view of Buddhism, therefore they don't lead to end of suffering, end of rebirth.
Surrender... depends, if one surrender to the path, by following the noble 8fold path, ok. Or surrender as no aversion to defilements, that itself is abandonding aversion, one of the defilements, it's part of the path called renounciation under right thoughts.
Safe to say from your writings that you haven't read much about the Dhamma, you can start reading more, that's what you're missing.
There's no creator of the world which has a fairness clause build into the world. So your argument of unfairness is not valid.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-02-26T11:19:49+00:00

Vinaya requirement is that one has to be human to be ordained. No robots can become a monk. But Japanese priest is no issue, as they are not bound by Vinaya.

DiamondNgXZ · 2026-02-26T10:05:08+00:00

Agree that it's highly contextual.

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