4
votes
Democratic, not democratic, a valid and useful judging of a community?
Democracy often degenerates into foolish debates.
The Buddha was once asked to help a group of mendicants stop their ongoing harsh debate:
MN128:4.1: Then the Buddha went up to those mendicants and ...
- 9,557
3
votes
Accepted
What is the stance of Buddhism on discussing philosophies, beliefs, ideas, and practices of other religions or belief systems?
Are Buddhists allowed to discuss / engage in the ideas to some degree? Or is it shunned.
"Allowed" implies a moral precept -- of which there are at least five in Buddhism -- one of which is ...
- 47.4k
3
votes
What is the stance of Buddhism on discussing philosophies, beliefs, ideas, and practices of other religions or belief systems?
Buddhists are allowed to talk about religions (because the Buddha did) however it should ideally be for the purpose of helping others align with a path of liberation &/or a path of morality (...
- 43.9k
2
votes
Do you know of a Buddhist text explaining why living in a community?
“Well then, monks, I will lay down a training rule for the following ten reasons: 5.11.32
for the well-being of the Sangha,
for the comfort of the Sangha,
for the restraint of bad people,
for the ...
- 6,330
2
votes
Selling and use Dhamma as advertising
This is not a problem found solely in Buddhism.
How people represent themselves, when they are not sincere practitioners, tends to be mistaken behaviour, with mistaken views, and mistaken motives. ...
- 582
2
votes
Selling and use Dhamma as advertising
A true Dhamma teacher would know and act according to:
DN2:45.15: They refrain from running errands and messages;
DN2:45.16: buying and selling;
DN2:45.17: falsifying weights, metals, or measures;
...
- 9,557
2
votes
Using money and improper dependency of monks on householders?
According to the Theravada Bhikkhu Patimokkha (quoted below), lay stewards of the monks or nuns should handle money, to my understanding.
If needed, exceptions or modifications to minor monastic rules ...
- 38k
2
votes
As a Buddhist with a Muslim family, community, and background... how do you integrate/cope?
Islam comes from a Buddhists back ground. The Buddha taught that, Eliminating the ignorance which is driven by Pancakkhandha is the road to enlightenment for all sentient beings.(Pancakkanda, the five ...
- 29
1
vote
at a Vesak today at a temple with mixed lineages,. We had to wait to eat until the monks finished. Is this the norm in Buddhist cultures?
I doubt there is a rule because, when I lived as a layperson in a very small Theravada monastery with a few monks, we all ate at the same time.
In other larger formal group offerings at an associated ...
- 43.9k
1
vote
Do you know of a Buddhist text explaining why living in a community?
Monks, these six are conditions that are conducive to amiability, that
engender feelings of endearment, engender feelings of respect, leading
to a sense of fellowship, a lack of disputes, harmony, &...
- 11
1
vote
Reflecting duties of good friends near conflicts
What ever reason, what ever one might feel right in his ways or wrongly treated: A Dhammika advices to abstain from wrong doing, reminds that letting go leads to peace. Gives comment-less what's ...
- 19
1
vote
Democratic, not democratic, a valid and useful judging of a community?
All autocracy, democracy, and righteousnessy could be right or wrong depending on the doer's mind moments, wholesome is right, unwholesome is wrong.
However the ordinaries normally often decide right ...
- 6,330
1
vote
Do you know of a Buddhist text explaining why living in a community?
the question is why to live in community. a little effort to answer has arisen out by a slight thought giving and personal experience. we are very unfortunate not having buddha among us . if he would ...
- 111
1
vote
Do you know of a Buddhist text explaining why living in a community?
There is some overlap here with ChrisW's answer. The point I would like to emphasize is that for both monks and lay persons, there are benefits of admirable friendship.
Admirable friendship is ...
- 38k
1
vote
Do you know of a Buddhist text explaining why living in a community?
Namo Buddhaya.I assume you mean Sangha by community. One should live in a Sangha for the welfare and good will of the humans and devas. Sangha i.e. community ,exists out of compassion for the people.
...
- 4,288
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible