Posts Tagged ‘women’

Touched down in LA, made my way back to the monastery only to have to turn around and head back to save a visiting nun from deportation. All is well, time to rest. Tomorrow is the first day of my planned stayputting in Los Angeles. Wish me luck.

Buddhists are all about letting go, not clinging to things, it is true. But we’re also all about understanding things, which we believe is what leads us to be able to give up clinging. If you don’t really take the time to understand something, you can’t really expect to give up clinging it. [...]

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 [...]

Although this matter has been cleared up within the Thai press, it seems that the article in English has stirred up and agitated Western readers. This has been caused by some misrepresentations of the events of the press conference and the editorial language used in the article. Wat Nong Pah Pong feels that it is [...]

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?  [...]

For most of the Wat Pa Phong theras, the intellectual argument over the validity of bhikkhuni ordination is not the point. Their lack of knowledge of the latest studies on the subject is, in their eyes, irrelevant. To them the issue is that Ajahn Brahmavamso reneged on commitments implicit in his ownership of a Thai [...]