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do I misunderstand them? How might I know if you do? "Misunderstanding" might mean that your description doesn't match some kind of "truth", or "other evidence" -- but your description is the only evi …

If some teaching is not inmediately effective, but the results (as described in the suttas) are seen after a long, dedicated practice, should we discard that teaching? I'm not sure that "immediately …

In case it matters, another translation says, "If you were to recite to the mendicant Girimānanda these ten perceptions, it’s possible that after hearing them his illness will die down on the spot …

I suppose that "self" is not easy to identify, especially since Buddhist doctrine is that everything is "non-self". The words "atta" and "anatta" are used without much obvious definition, in the Anat …

I guess "desire" (whether "worldly" or "for liberation") has two components: it's an ambition or a goal for the future ("I do X because I aspire towards Y"), a motive; and it's a preference ("I prefer …

My original belief used to be that as long as you are a decent good person without any intentions to hurt others, you'll be fine. Yes it's good -- ethical -- to intend to be harmless. The last bit, th …

The suttas are mostly (not all) by and for monks, less detailed on the subject of married life and so on. Buddhism & Divorce implies there's not a lot of explicit doctrine on the subject -- perhaps li …

Maybe it depends on intention. For example, on Stack Exchange A permitted/expected reasons for using a different name is for anonymity -- for example if you're a well-known user on a site, and you wa …

Their actions are one thing, maybe a problem. Your anger is another thing -- it's easy to feel, "I'm right to be angry because of their actions" -- but if you're angry, now you have two problems! For …

I assume it would be karuna, compassion. There's a Zen story, Is that so? -- probably not that "Zen master Hakuin" is counted an arahant, but I guess the motive displayed in that story is compassion. …

What should I do if a lot of my friends and family are trying to prove Buddhism wrong with the laws of impermanence or planes of existence, & I do not want to debate this with them as I do not want to …

This is not exactly "Buddhist scripture or commentary" but it's related -- What nurses need to know about Buddhist perspectives of end-of-life care -- here's an extract but you might read it all: Tak …

From a Buddhist perspective, how does one reconcile with the huge moral and ethical shortcomings that allow pharmaceutical companies to indemnify themselves from any Ill effects caused by vaccination …