Posts Tagged ‘religion’

‘Brethren, if outsiders should speak against me, or against my teaching, or against my disciples, you should not on that account either bear malice, or suffer heart-burning, or feel ill-will. If you, on that account, should be angry and hurt, that would stand in the way of your own self-conquest. If, when others speak against [...]

Great to hear, though I’m a bit skeptical… I’ve quoted him before as saying he didn’t believe it humanly possible to follow the Buddha’s path, which is perhaps the reason he fell off it in the first place? Anyway, here’s the quote of the day:
Part of following this path for me is Buddhism, which [...]

And then we turned on the Thai version of Angulimala for my pre-teen protoges, and I realized that it is a perfect example of how forgiveness and redemption takes place for evil doers in Buddhism. Hope you appreciate this little cut-and-paste preview of the 90-min movie (I’ve fixed the horrid subtitles):

From the Beating-a-Dead-Horse Dept:
Not to compare religions out of context, but, regarding the following video:

The noun forgiveness has 2 senses:
1. forgiveness — (compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive)
2. forgiveness, pardon — (the act of excusing a mistake or offense)
Forgiveness in Christianity:
” ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife [...]

It’s funny how things work… I just got around to sending Tiger Woods a “How To Meditate DVD” (along with a bonus “Why Everyone Should Meditate” DVD) this afternoon, when what should I see on Facebook but the following video clip:

First of all, Buddhism is not a faith, it is a practice. If you [...]

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 [...]

Back at Wat Thai of Los Angeles; good to be back home.
A little sick, so all keep this short… just thought I’d post my yearly offering of holiday carols for the third year in a row.  I’ve given it its own page now:
http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/articles/buddhist-christmas-carols/
Enjoy, mindfully.

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 [...]

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself; the title is a shameless bow to the search engine gods.
So, I wrote an outline of why I don’t think there is any need to bother with ordaining Bhikkhunis, and got a very polite and educated response from a Theravada Bhikkhuni on the matter. Here are some of the [...]

EDIT: I think I’ve had my mind changed on the matter… please read this post as well:
http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/posts/modern-monkwarfare/
One day I’ll write an article about the Bhikkhuni situation… probably by then it will make me the black sheep of the international monastic community.  But that is something about which I’ve never cared before, so why start now?  [...]