Nityaprem
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Simond, I’m pleased you enjoyed my short summary of my journey into Buddhism. It was not really my intention to spur people on to undertake the same journey, whether it would gel with you is a very personal […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
@Lokesh said: “I think the Western mind is confused from the get-go and that the east/west divide is no longer relevant. The world is united under the banner of rampant consumerism and materialism.”
Spot on. The […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
I might try that, thanks Arpana!
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Nice quote. Seeing the world as a dream is something you also come across with Nisargadatta, Papaji etc but I don’t think I’ve heard it explained so clearly. It obviously insulates you from a lot of […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
My grandparents were Christians, but I didn’t get too much conditioning from them as my parents had broken with the Church. At age 7 I became a sannyasin, together with my father and mother.
I don’t think I even […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
While I’ve never done the Mystic Rose, I would like to, sometime when the pandemic is all over.
All the Buddhist meditations I have encountered have this kind of cleansing effect, it gradually stills your […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
I like it! Hotei’s spirit is still strong with us today. What was it that Osho said, “Gotama the Buddha is Buddhism’s roots, Hotei is its flowering.”
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Thich Nhat Hanh rewrote the Five Precepts as the Five Mindfulness Trainings, which are a lot more inclusive and complete for the modern man. You can read them here: […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
I always loved Osho’s version of the Hotei story:
“In Japan, a great mystic, Hotei, is called the laughing Buddha. He is one of the most loved mystics in Japan, and he never uttered a single word. As he became […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Of course the rules are only shorthand here. It depends on the tradition, but ‘no killing’ is worked out further. For example, in Heinrich Harrer’s tale ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ there was a case where a truck was […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Yes, there are further sets, eg I believe there is an 8 precept set which some people keep on Buddhist holy days.
Buddhist monks live by a code called the Vinaya, which consists of between 218 and 380 rules. It […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
No, I didn’t become a monk, although I did meet a few. There was a Tibetan Buddhist temple located not very far from where I lived, and that’s where I went to study. There was quite a bit of distance learning […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Yes, that’s right, but they are things that you wouldn’t do anyway if you were reasonably sane and sober…
the five precepts are:- not killing
- not stealing
- not lying
- no sexual misconduct
- no intoxicating […] -
Nityaprem commented on the post, What a Sannyasin Can Learn from Buddhism, by Nityaprem, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
Frank said: “which is mostly a seething mass of inferiority, resentment, bitterness, rancour, pique, miffed indignation, outrage and low-grade OCD”
It sounds like you don’t have a very high opinion of western […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 1 month ago
There certainly is good and bad in Sannyas. It’s a beautiful thing to focus on a spiritual path together with others, but it also takes you away from the life you might have lived.
It is useful to reflect from […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 2 months ago
I’m sure you think it’s all fun and games, as long as you don’t take it seriously. But it is one of the things that nearly made me reconsider joining in, because it doesn’t speak of a lot of respect or kindness […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 2 months ago
Goodness. And you consider this normal relations? No wonder the girls pray for a good marriage, if those are the options.
Whatever else the Upanishads have to say, this is pretty medieval. Tell […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 2 months ago
I think this advice is madness. In Buddhism you have the Five Precepts, and one of those is to not engage in sexual misconduct. That came from India too.
What about love, respect, compassion, […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 2 months ago
Just goes to show that the writers of the Upanishads could also be violent and perverse. It is no reason to take it seriously, and it casts a different light on the whole Upanishad because if their […]
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Nityaprem commented on the post, Let’s Talk…, on the site sannyasnews 2 years, 2 months ago
One of my favourite poems, Arpana.
This fragment of Hakim Sanai’s Hadiqa spoke to me even more, for me it shows the whole spiritual impulse in just a few words…
We tried reasoning
our way to Him:
it did not […] - Load More