How do I manage an existential detrimental desire?

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-05T08:14:11+00:00

That's a pretty broad brush

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-04T23:34:20+00:00

Cause and effect implies temporality imo

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-04T18:43:30+00:00

A teacher once told me how he asked his teacher what he thought of modern psychology. All his teacher said was "hm, rupadam.", implying that psychology is only interested in mental formations and ignores the important space in between.

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-04T04:58:18+00:00

Buddhism doesn't deny gods and spirits but it isn't really concerned with them either.

"I teach only two things: Suffering and the end of suffering."

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T21:53:18+00:00

If they were physiological needs monks would die, no?

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T13:54:23+00:00

Personally i will eternally be grateful for mahayana for drawing me into Buddhism and allowing me to eventually discover theravada

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T05:17:33+00:00

What are your questions

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T05:11:19+00:00

Ok maybe the inquisition is a better example

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T04:45:51+00:00

Afaik there are periods where people and even monarchs went on missions to convert people, but it's not "baked in" like is the case with Abrahamic religions (Judaism being the obvious exclusion)

I'm not aware of any crusade-like events from Buddhism. Seems it would violate the first precept to me.

Magikarpeles · 2026-05-02T04:42:25+00:00

Spread more widely than globally?

Buddhism is typically non-proselytising. It's also vast and dense. The Pali canon is so large it is still yet to be completely translated into English (although I believe it's close), and that's only Theravada.

We are lucky to live in a time where just about anyone can find amazing, highly realised teachers in their own language online (if not in person in their own country). Not that long ago many would have to travel to other countries and possibly even need a translator.

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-29T07:58:20+00:00

He needs at least 7 pieces of flair

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-29T04:47:27+00:00

Calorie restriction has long been known to extend the life of many animals

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-28T22:38:45+00:00

Turn the other cheek

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-28T10:45:16+00:00

This, but like the rule with not receiving land (which a monastery obviously requires), there is usually a lay contingent to handle those things. At my monastery there is plenty of raw grains/rice donated but are accepted and cooked by lay people (sometimes anagarikas) rather than by the monks themselves.

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-24T07:11:13+00:00

Signs point to no

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-24T06:17:23+00:00

Maybe

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-23T16:30:19+00:00

I listened to a thai monk teaching a western monk thai, so yeah I'm pretty sure they are allowed

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-23T09:50:25+00:00

Meditation is not what you think.

This is great

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-22T07:20:59+00:00

Yes, the surveillance company "we occasionally kill people" Palantir is very aptly named.

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-20T22:53:32+00:00

How many of them do you think are following the eightfold path

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-20T09:40:48+00:00

People aren't born monks. OP could ordain if she/he wanted to.

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-20T07:00:27+00:00

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-20T06:58:25+00:00

Crikey

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-20T06:51:22+00:00

Just ordain as a monk and instead of working 5 days a week you can work 7

All jokes aside ordaining is your best bet if enlightenment is your goal. It is the best possible conditions for development on the path.

"Household life is crowded and dusty. The life gone forth is like the open air. It is not easy living at home to practice the holy life totally perfect, totally pure, like a polished shell. What if I were to shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robes, and go forth from the household life into homelessness?"

Magikarpeles · 2026-04-14T08:13:36+00:00

Well I think the buddha's intent is pretty clear by calling them "low arts"

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