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Old 04-22-2010, 03:35 PM
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Default Anyone renouncing this world soon ? ( Becoming a Theravada Monk in Asia)?

Ive been thinking about it for quite a while now and I did not act yet for multiple reasons but it all comes down to fear and attachment

I was wondering what you think best , to go when one feel ready or to act in the present moment and just do it , well see how it goes ?
Yes I have many reasons , religious Buddhist , corruption , dangerous country's and many more but I cannot do anything about those since they are outside of my reach I can only save myself unfortunate , but it comes down to fear of losing my con fort , my attachments and all that resume to not feeling ready , but will I ever feel ready perhaps I should just do it right now or I never will
Theravada believes in Rebirth : like this

Rebirth still occurs without a soul. Consider this simile: on a Buddhist shrine one candle, burnt low, is about to expire. A monk takes a new candle and lights it from the old. The old candle dies, the new candle burns bright. What went across from the old candle to the new? There was a causal link but no thing went across! In the same way, there was a causal link between your previous life and your present life, but no soul has gone across
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Old 04-23-2010, 03:35 PM
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we wish but we are stuck here...
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Old 04-27-2010, 03:35 PM
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I should hope not.
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Old 05-02-2010, 03:35 PM
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I've always been leery of ordination for a couple reasons.

1) I feel there's a bit of corruption, superstition, and misinterpretation in almost every Buddhist organization I've seen. Not enough to make it not worthwhile to become ordained, but certainly enough to make them "less-than-perfect", and I've always waited for that perfect (probably in existent) one.

2) I look like hell with a shaved head. I shaved my head when I first took refuge, and I looked positively terrible. (Vanity is attachment, I know.)

3) I've always wanted to give back to the world, and many Buddhist organizations seem too focused on religious ceremony and not enough on charity. The best charitable works I've seen are in Burma, but that brings up another issue:

4) Political strife. Show me a Buddhist country that doesn't have some political turmoil going on and I'll show you a fairy tale.

5) Language. I can only speak English fluently, and I'm old enough that, even if I did learn, say, Sinhala, I would struggle with it for the rest of my life.

Those are the reasons I have hang-ups. Perhaps it's different for you? I'm not even sure if I'm answered your question; just sharing my own thoughts and feelings.
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Old 05-03-2010, 03:35 PM
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That would be a cool experience, except the Therevada sect of Buddhism as far as I am aware, believes in reincarnation in a sense where your soul gets placed into a new body, but the way I see it you don't have a soul that goes from place to place you are reborn already in everything there is, you are reborn from moment to moment, and you are reincarnated after death in the same sense that a new wave forms on the ocean... not the same wave, but still a wave and still from the same ocean.
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