Dharma Wheel

I know a lot of people who use kratom to help with withdrawals. Does anyone else have any of this experience? I'd like to hear your stories. Seems to be quite poisonous, likewise addictive and last not least illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa#United_States It gets touted as a...

However, poor, uneducated whites have less of a "white privilege" than many of the social activists claim they do. Yes, a poor white guy is less likely to get shot by white police officers than a poor black guy is, but beyond that, poor whites have few advantages and have many problems associated w...

It will depend on which tradition one follows. There are (at least) two different lunar calendars in use to calculate the dates. If you have a local sangha, I'd ask there.

WuMing wrote:looks like a photoshop creation.

I don't see why it would be. HHDL does actually have pet cats.

I'm not really sure I can answer your question adequately, but I've had experiences that have convinced me that the buddhas and bodhisattvas are really there, and can really help us. More importantly, they can help us help ourselves. They make us realize that we are the ones who have to change. What...

I think it's really lovely. So the clergy are providing more personalized care for the people they serve. That's a good thing!

12 Angry Men is my all-time favorite.

So, this may seem like a random question, but are you burning incense while you meditate? It's a wonderful offering, but I've found that if I breathe the smoke in for too long, it triggers a tightness in my chest like you mention. Just something to think about.

Well, yes...the sangha is important. It's one of the three jewels. You take refuge in it, along with the Buddha and the Dharma. No matter how well you think you're doing on your own, you would do so much better with others helping you.

Welcome.

Have fun!

Luke wrote:Perhaps I was also hoping to push the Dharma Wheel forum more into the media spotlight and to create some "buzz" about it... hehe

Why?

One forum I frequent has a user "reputation" system. There were many checks and balances in place to prevent abuse, but somehow people still managed to abuse it. My best friend received a downvote on one of her posts. Since the downvotes had to come with feedback...it did. An anonymous note calling ...

Of course it is. Think about it this way - every day you pass people on the street and you will never see them again. Do you mourn that?

Doesn't mean you should beat yourself up over it though, and I'm really sorry you're feeling sad.

gyamtsotrinle wrote:I mean that their face and also some others part of body is little bit damage.

Can you repair the damage, or just patch over it?

If you really don't want to put them on your shrine, why don't you set aside some other space for them in your home where people can see them and plant good seeds?

I'm autistic, and I have a hard time picking up when people are being sarcastic. People also don't pick up when *I'm* being sarcastic, so I get told quite often by my family that I shouldn't make sarcastic jokes, since it's upsetting when they can't tell if I'm serious. Yet everyone else in my famil...

So I'm curious about ways to share the dharma with your pets. Specifically, I'm wondering if giving the water from offering bowls to your pets (I have two cats) is okay to do. :shrug: might be disrespectful, might help plant good karmic seeds for their future rebirth and keep them close to the dhar...

I also notice an ambiguous position in this thread. If a zygote is not a human, then something like the morning after pill for instance does not "impede" a human being, if "kill" is too strong a word. Yet people take the morning after pill precisely to avoid the possibility a human birth in the fut...

If I plant two acorns, then a week later decide to dig one up, I have only one tree five years later. For me to say I did not destroy a tree is not technically true, even if the acorn is not a tree. A womb may be a necessary condition but a primary cause remains the zygote. Regarding consciousness ...

As soon as the fertilized egg finds itself in the uterus (best on the upper part of the posterior wall), it will start producing hCG which permits its implantation. The natural way, the blastocyst is embedded into the endometrium by day 5 or 6. So you need good timing. HCG production peaks around 6...