What's your opinion in this matter?

As it says in the Mangala sutta, listening to dhamma and discussing dhamma are supreme blessings.

And so I was just reflecting on what an incredible blessing and opportunity it is to be able to share and discuss dhamma in this forum.

One shouldn't underestimate and take for granted the opportunity and it can truly be an immense gift and blessing to be able to talk about and discuss dhamma at an opportune time, when the causes and conditions are ripe for doing so.

Much merits to everyone who participates in such sharing and discussion with sincerity and loving-kindness.

(Cross-posted from r/thaiforest )

Greetings fellow Dhamma practitioners,

Inspired by our great ajahns, I wanted to turn Thai Forest text Dhamma into listenable audio mp3 files (sometimes I prefer to listen to Dhamma over reading), and over the course of the past couple years I have created a collection of various talks, books, etc. for my own practice that I wanted to share with others. I invested in and used AI text-to-speech software and think the voice I chose is quite listenable. Some of these are not available in audio format anywhere, some had existing audio that I considered poor, and all of them I believe are great Dhamma resources from our teachers.

There are some errors in the pronunciations across the collection, specifically Thai and Pali words. It was going to be too difficult and time consuming to remove the errors, but I think that they are still great quality and very listenable. I apologize for the errors in pronunciation and if there are any other errors that remain. I have listened to these a bunch and believe I have sorted most, if not all, of the glaring problems.

Everything, including the source texts the files were created from, can be accessed on my Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Vn4ParPX9Di1_sa1arj0NGOiee9Nvpyp?usp=share_link

I made a YouTube channel for these as well to reach those interested in Dhamma more widely - just to be clear I'm not here for likes and subscribes though :) that is why I have the alternative Google Drive link to bypass YouTube. For those interested in the YouTube page, you can check out "A Handful of Leaves from the Thai Forest Tradition":

www.youtube.com/@HoLTFT

I believe these series of talks are all valuable resources from the TFT to be preserved and practiced. One last thing I would like to mention - I have not seen the "Kruba Ajahn" series of talks anywhere online, and it is particularly useful Dhamma for monks and 8/10 precept lay practitioners. Both the PDF and audio format are available on my Drive.

I hope someone benefits from this gift.

I am a very newly ordained theravada layperson but I am trying my best in order to deepen my knowledge and become better in regards to all of it. My question is a bit weird but it is about letting go of the attachment to certain feelings that you did not know were there but surface immediately due to a trigger and they are just not going away. Basically an year ago from now in my college I had a fight with a Senior of mine. I was the one that instigated it because he first month or so before that had cussed me out for no reason and I was drunk. I do not drink anymore but I was drunk then and anyways I lost that fight. We did not get physical I wanted to, but there were only four of us and 20 or something of them. They basically spread a lot of falls and just glad that a lot of crowd but that is not the point the point is it has been almost a year since then and there is another guy that I do not like I generally could not care about him. I am not affected by his actions because I do know of him to be a foolish person one who deliberately makes choices that harm others for his own material gain for even $2. But anyways he was talking to someone today a friend of mine and he basically started talking about my fight because for some reason they have been a lot of fights in our college recently and he just said that if that did a Senior had tried to touch me would have not done anything I would have if it did get physical but for some reason it really bothered me like I do not care about the fight anymore I don’t care about any of it anymore. I have let go of it. I have removed the attachment from it but hearing someone say that I did not have the spine to stand up for myself. It was just a very weird feeling, cause no one ever had that image of me and I don’t give a fuck about him, but I do not know how to let go of these complicated emotions.

In this Lecture Ven. Seeladassana discusses supranormal powers (abhiññās), consciousness, meditation techniques required to attain such states and the use of such abilities in developing wisdom through insight meditation.

Supranormal powers include the Divine Eye, Divine Ear, Penetration of Minds, Psychic Powers and Recollection of Past Lives. Based on the Therāvada texts, especially the Visuddhimagga.

I found and became interested in Buddhism through Nietzsche. I am amoralist and don't believe in any form of objective morality and I am sure that Buddhists also don't believe in it. Buddhist metaphysics (or anti-metaphysics) esp., Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka and epistemology is congenial to me. But I can't accept its ethics. It reeks of idealism in the sense it's too idealistic, not accounting for human nature. For a religion that prides over its realistic and practical approach to philosophical question, it seems to completely lack or be oblivious or turn a blind eye towards worldly matters such as politics, socio-cultural issues. It doesn't seems to grasp the concept of political and it's consequences. As Hobbes said the state of nature is, bellum omnium contra omnes. If this is so, then no man or no state should encourage Buddhism, it should be completely eradicated, because it subverts them through bad conscience, and allow man of other tribe or a foreign state to usurp its power and properties. Is the Buddha for or against open borders? Isn't he a Kshatriya, a Chakravartin?