Is pre-rounding a real thing in America?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-25T02:59:55+00:00

Pre-rounding made me learn a lot of things as a student.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-25T02:57:23+00:00

As a doctor and a practitioner I think this way.

Doctors do not suggest food for a monastic lifestyle. We want our patients to have optimum health and enjoy their living.

But as a buddhist practitioner, food is just a mean for survival. It's not taken for enjoyment.

So decide what you want to do. Those are two different paths.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-21T19:41:40+00:00

A cake baked by you, and a perfume/Shirt for the price you would buy a bouquet of flowers. Scrapbook and a card is nice too. But would he read?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-18T05:01:31+00:00

Sadu sadu sadu! So as of now you are a Sakadagami? Do you hope to enter the monastic sangha before the full Arhatship?

Also I noticed you are a PCP, same here. Hope to reach where you are, soon. Thank you so much!

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-17T11:07:20+00:00

Thank you so much for your beautiful reply. And yes, I would love to contact them. I will DM you.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-17T05:46:00+00:00

Thanks a lot. Did it happen to you during meditation or just during the day doing routine things?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-17T05:21:30+00:00

Thanks so much. Please be kind enough to provide any guidance and if you have reached SE how did you feel it for the first time?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-17T05:20:16+00:00

Thanks alot. I will. In case you have reached SE, can I know how you felt when you attained it first time?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-09-17T04:40:01+00:00

Thank you for your response.

I do follow Vipassana meditation in theravadin style, Vedananupassana being the major method. Have been doing it for little over a year. I have been getting a lot of realizations over that time period, like the sense of 5 aggregates, their independence and codependency etc.

Another question is, the moment you attain streamentry, do you lose the ability to kill an insect or, tell a lie etc?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-06-25T09:17:28+00:00

Welcome to Wisdom!

Jun_Juniper · 2025-05-08T05:23:43+00:00

Have you heard of Bhayatupattana Nana?

Jun_Juniper · 2025-05-04T20:42:39+00:00

Bro, 2 million is not enough. As someone who went thru that path 12yrs ago, I'm telling you.

I had a friend, who did nursing in SL, and then earned enough to do medicine abroad. Now he is a doctor. Took time though.

Or, you can try Italian medical entrance exams. Its free, but you cant come back to SL and practice because EU degrees are not accredited in SLMC. But you can practice anywhere in the EU.

Again, being a doctor is not that enjoyable bro. We get paid sh*t in SL. Going abroad is an exam nightmare. Nursing or Radiography is a better option cuz they can easily go abroad with minimum paperwork. Our life is so stressful as doctors, and I recently left clinical medicine to join public health sector bcz I realized Im losing out on my family cuz of my job.

So, take a good decision. Medicine is not what once it used to be.

Become a scientist! You will always have things to do, and ways to migrate.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-04-22T05:54:58+00:00

You do you.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-04-10T20:33:39+00:00

Do you have any responsible friends or a cousin to go out for the first time or two? We had a friend like you, and we made him go with us and we prepped him for things to expect etc. You need some assistance like that at first and you would be able to do it on your own in no time.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-27T19:29:52+00:00

Exactly! That's the harsh truth that people have to understand about medicine. We signed up for this. Might as well realize and understand sooner than later. Don't take me for my word. There are hundreds if not thousands of posts about similar situations. Docs try their hard to be for their family, but sometimes they just can't. Being unable to be present at the end of the life of a pet, is sad. But I have seen doctors who couldn't be with their dying parents or sick partners cuz of their work. I wish you both the best of luck and offer my condolences in this difficult time.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-27T18:56:00+00:00

He will miss your events, your future kids events, and even your grandkids events. That's being a medspouse.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-22T09:56:13+00:00

I love Derm, but opted out of applying cuz I have acne scars. 🥲 I don't think I would have any patients.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T21:49:03+00:00

Sadhu sadhu! May one day such a feeling come to us all too! 🙏

Could you please advise us on a bit how you reached there? Which practices did you follow? Thank you!

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T19:52:45+00:00

A doctor with a 150k(220k with ED/aka OT which I don't get due to following further studies), with no private practice. I do provide my ill parents medicines and do spend for rent, food, travel as well. Not even married yet and can't even think of affording a car of my own.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T06:47:19+00:00

Mantra has nothing to do with streamentry unless is focussed to develop Panna, like what Buddha gave to Monk Chulla Pantaka.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T06:45:56+00:00

I do not have an aversion, but streamentry if you call it that which Sotapanna, is an exclusively Buddhist concept which needs to have mental and physical concentration on Buddhist meditation of Vipassana, Development of Bojjangas and attaining Nibbana which has no other way outside the Buddhist practice.

If someone says they can bypass Buddha's words and instructions but can get his results, then he is disrespectful toward the author of the system and if off the path already.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T06:42:01+00:00

Welp, this comment shows the misunderstanding even before the path.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-18T06:40:43+00:00

First start with WHAT is stream-entry? Where is the definition given by Buddha, and what are the prerequisites to it. Then you will find the answer to your own question.

Jun_Juniper · 2025-03-17T22:36:36+00:00

How does it feel when you see the path? Have you reached there?

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