Posts Tagged ‘homelessness’

A perennial favourite, this question.
Last year, I said I wasn’t going to stay at Wat Thai, any Wat Thai, and now here I am in Thailand about to go to a Wat Thai board meeting to talk about starting a meditation department at Wat Thai. See, they bought a piece of property near Wat [...]

More fun with Buddhist Monasticism.
So I really did think a bit about the whole woman ordination thing while in the forests of Thailand… here’s some more thoughts:

It seems pretty clear in my mind that we (men monks) shouldn’t be eager to ordain women; it doesn’t say much of an ascetic that he turns around and [...]

I really don’t have enough time to do justice to this topic, and probably should have known better than to stick my nose into it so close to a trip abroad, but hopefully I can just close up here with a few points that I’ve come up with, maybe right, maybe wrong.
First, some points in [...]

Here’s my opinion on the Bhikkhuni thing:
I think we should look at the options… breaking rules is not cool, ever. But there are ways of changing the rules I think, at least temporarily… the Buddha left the sangha in charge and, as I said, I don’t see any reason for not putting it to a [...]

An interesting topic, and indeed history in the making; new Bhikkhunis in Australia and a schism in the Thai forest sangha… I’m not sure which is of more significance:
History in the Making « Go beyond words: Wisdom Publications’ Buddhist Blog.

(08:35:05 PM) Eric Hancock: “hi yes I’d like to cancel my credit card” “why? we have blah blah blah offers” “well I’m becoming a monk”
(08:35:14 PM) Yuttadhammo: haha
(08:35:15 PM) Eric Hancock: “is that a joke?”
(08:35:16 PM) Eric Hancock: lol
(08:35:24 PM) Yuttadhammol: what fun
(08:35:30 PM) Eric Hancock: it is fun
(08:37:47 PM) Eric Hancock: she kepy [...]

Last night I slept in the closest thing I could call a home, the park I’m sitting in in the header of this weblog. It was the happiest night I’ve spent in a long time. I think there is far too little said about the life of a homeless person; the intense suffering [...]