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How I can live longer as well as peaceful by doing practices taught by Buddhism?
Here is a list of a few things you can do to live a longer and healthier life.
Meditate: Stress will make you age quicker and die younger.
Eat vegetarian meals: Most meats will cause inflammation ...
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Hearing the cry of a baby - abandoning practice for action?
Compassionate Buddha not only listened to child’s cry but also to the cries of poor, downtrodden, rich, famous etc. (practically everyone!!)
Here is an interesting story:
When seven year old Rahula ...
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"I fear the man of one book" - What is your attitude towards this thought?
You can study other fields like science, psychology, philosophy, physiology, culture, other religions etc. That's no conflict with Buddhism.
However, using other fields to validate Buddhism is not ...
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I explain why I prefer discuss Buddhism intellectually but others don't seem to accept my point. Why is that?
Here's a very suitable sutta for this question. Self-explanatory.
From Dhammaviharin Sutta (AN 5.73):
Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having
bowed down to him, sat ...
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Is there a future Buddha?
The honorific 'Buddha' means 'awakened one'. Since the intent of Buddhist philosophy and practice is to lead people to awakening, then there must ipso facto be future Buddhas, or else the entire ...
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Hearing the cry of a baby - abandoning practice for action?
The following story comes in the Saṅgāmaji Sutta (Udana 1.8).
It is about a monk by the name of Sanghamaji, who, when seated under a tree, was visited by his former wife, carrying their infant son. ...
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Is there a point for a not continues practice?
You should consider the following
Change your approach
In Mahayana Buddhism the emphasis is on skillful means, sitting meditation is not the only practice available, there are plenty of other Dharma ...
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Mental illness: can Dhamma, meditation help?
Some people with a mental health history have actually benefited from meditation.
Such benefit is known to occur on a case-by-case basis, similar to how not every person that lives as a monk ...
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Mental illness: can Dhamma, meditation help?
While this answer focuses on mindfulness-based medical therapies that are derived from Buddhist meditation techniques, it does not directly promote original Buddhist meditation practices, for medical ...
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intellectualism or anti-intellectualism and Buddhism
I don't think Buddhism is inherently anti intellectual. Theravada's Abhidharma, Late Indian / Early Tibetan Mahayana preserved and developed by Gelugpa - are highly intellectual, to name a few.
It's ...
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What types of physical dwellings are most conducive for Buddhist lay life living?
There is a recommendation on suitable lodging for monks and nuns in AN 10.11 quoted below.
However, there are no recommendations for lay persons as far as I am aware. I would say any physical dwelling ...
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Is there a future Buddha?
Good householder,
It's mentioned, in an urgency by displaying causes of samvega, that a further Buddha will arise, yet exactly this Sutta DN26 urges to train for liberation in this life, while the ...
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Hearing the cry of a baby - abandoning practice for action?
There's a "Zen story" titled, Is That So?
The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a
pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near
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How do your thoughts appear to you? (asking for mechanics)
To me, thoughts appear as relationships or associations. When I think of something, I remember something else related to that, and then the next thing, or several next things. All these memories are ...
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I explain why I prefer discuss Buddhism intellectually but others don't seem to accept my point. Why is that?
You should always keep in mind the differences between the Buddha's dispensation, and the teaching of, let's say, Socrates, Plato and other Hellenistic philosophers, which were, apparently, ...
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I explain why I prefer discuss Buddhism intellectually but others don't seem to accept my point. Why is that?
This is just from a personal perspective
In my early 20s my engagement with Buddhism was exclusively reading books and intellectualising about it. Fairly quickly I ran into the sand with it as I just ...
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What's the (mental) quality different between aversive leaving (vi-bhava) and renouncing (nekkhamma)?
Vibhava tanha arises as a result of attachement, aversion and ignorance combined with the wrong view of Nicca, Suka , Atta and Subha.
Nekkhamma is a result of non-attachement, non-aversion and wisdom ...
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Playing with sensations/heat
Still, calm, tranquilize your mind. Talk to this entity as though it were a person in your ordinary world.
Such things can happen by accident. Generally we have 'shields' (really just agreements ...
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How a sotapanna person experiences the mind?
Maybe the simplest answer to this question is that a sotāpanna does experience the mind, whereas most people identify with the mind so strongly that they cannot experience it at all. They are immersed ...
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How do you recognize the attainment of enlightenment?
The way to check the stage of enlightenment on or another person is in is by checking which fetters are broken and which are not. If all 10 are broken then you are fully enlightened. This should be ...
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What types of physical dwellings are most conducive for Buddhist lay life living?
Where ever right view prospers, good householder. Living on good place, therefore is one of the basic great blessings.
To reside in a suitable location... is the highest blessing and Countries to ...
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Is there a future Buddha?
In the Pali Tipitaka I think it's mentioned (only) in the Buddhavaṃsa:
In the twenty-eighth section is given the names of three Buddhas, namely, Taźhałkara, Medhałkara and Saraźałkara who lived ...
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Is there a future Buddha?
It appears in the Metteyyabuddhuppāda of the Cakkavattisutta, DN 26. From the translation by Venerable Sujāto:
Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu metteyyo nāma bhagavā loke uppajjissati ...
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Becoming attained-to-view as opposed to one liberated-by-faith and vice versa
How did the practice of one in-training (sekha) differ so that he became one attained-to-view as opposed to one liberated-by-faith and vice versa?
Likely that'd involve more than just the training ...
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How I can live longer as well as peaceful by doing practices taught by Buddhism?
It's simple, if you like a long life, abstain from killing any living being.
This is the way, student, that
leads to long life, namely, abandoning the killing of living beings,
one abstains ...
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How I can live longer as well as peaceful by doing practices taught by Buddhism?
A long live doesn't necessarily mean being happy all the time. Moreover, you can't control how long your live will be ("Live is uncertain, Death is certain."). So being concerned about how long your ...
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