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This idea would still surface in my mind whenever I'm interacting with animals, any advice on how to "completely" get rid of or forget about this? What should be the "right knowledge" here? Thanks!!!

Hello all, This has been a bother to me for long while now, recently in searching around, I found this excerpt below by Master Hsuan Hua below, and would like to bring it to discussion. http://www.dharmasite.net/2001/5.htm Venerable Master: On the body of one single animal are a hundred thousand, in...

Could someone give me some guidances on what I should be doing? I've been so low in spirit for the past 2 months over this issue, and it had caused me headaches, afflictions, and a lost of direction...This whole mind stream split idea injected in me a sense of nihilism. To give an example, if I rebo...

Even though I heard Master Hsuan Hua experienced this in his meditation, it's been giving me a headache and insecure thoughts. How could one person with one mind stream become animals with multiple mind streams? Is there a central mind that control all these animals? Do these animals that a person b...

Did a search for this, and found the following quote: From http://sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/175866?page=2 What he did state, apparently based on what he had actually observed in meditation, was that the lowest levels of animal ghosts (as I recall, I believe he was referring to low-level animal...

Based our the discussion in this forum, I've pretty much concluded at this point that: A. There is no precedent in Buddhism for saying that adultery has the form of misconduct with the harshest repercussions for future lives. B. There is very little, if any, precedent in Buddhism for saying that or...

plwk wrote:So andyn, any luck with CTTB in responding appropriately for your query?

I've emailed CTTB about 2 weeks ago, there's no response from them.

I finally remembered there is a sutta in Anguttara Nikaya where a disciple of Buddha dies and is reborn in a heaven in the form of two or three Magadhan farmers in a field. Sutta number ten, Kakudhathera sutta, in Kakudhavaggo -To Kakudha http://mahindaramatemple.com/e-tipitaka/Anguttara-Nikaya/an5...

Per the excerpt below, divorce and remarriage is allowed in Buddhism, so how is that considered as "the most serious offense"? http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/dewaraja/wheel280.html Women whose marriages break up were free to remarry with no stigma attached,..."But if they ...

Hello all, I'm a little perplexed when reading this dharma talk by Master Hsuan Hua, link provided below. According to his words, a person who remarried will be sawed into multiple pieces according to the remarried times? And also, a person could be be splitted into multiple mosquitoes? Could someon...

So when I received this precept, the master (who I now have no contact with) did not explain the meaning of this "frivolous speech" concept, in fact, the language meant something like using flattering or flowery comments to take advantage of others, or in some form to bring other down and ...

I would like to ask those who accept the "no frivolous speech" as precept, what is your take on this? Do you think having friends together, joking and laughing is breaking the precept? I've heard that if you repeatedly and intentionally break a precept that you've received, even it's a lig...

I found the original text from Ven. Sheng Yen's book where he said if 3 or 4 friends gathered together laughing, joking, they are sure to commit in breaking this precept. So as far as I'm concerned, the people who took on this precept cannot socialize or having worldly discussion? Wouldn't that make...

The standard five lay precepts of refuge differ from the first 5 of the 10 vices. In the latter case, harsh, divisive and foolish speech are added to lying. Harsh, divisive and foolish speech are considered to be lay precepts in Chinese Buddhism, but not in the Theravada tradition. Being in the Chi...

I've learned that the Buddha only has "No lying" as the precept for lay person, how come when it comes down to Chinese tradition, there were three more factors (No double-tongued speech, No abusive speech, and No frivolous speech) added to the 4th precept? Also, usually most of the books I...