Reply To: Relationship and Attachment

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Jittananto
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You are welcome, Taryal !!!

Yes, Pathfinder is right. What I like about the bhikkhus of the Jethavaranama monastery is that they teach the Dhamma in a language that non-Buddhists can understand. This is a subtle point but extremely important. Do not feed solid food to a newborn as it may cause choking. Their bodies will adapt as they grow, similar to the human mind’s understanding of deep Dhamma concepts. ONLY a Lord Buddha can always find the appropriate language depending on the gati of his interlocutor. For example, you can discuss the theme of Kāma ragā with this person using the example of Jesus. Jesus and many of his disciples were single because they saw that marriage was an obstacle to a contemplative life. Priests and some pastors continue to respect celibacy. Until today there are Christian monks withdrawn from the world and who reach high spiritual levels. Buddhist monks are in the same situation. Jesus said that nothing in this world can defile our minds. All our defilement comes from our impure mind. This is the kind of debate that might spark interest in the Dhamma, depending on how open the person is.

Mark 7:14-23

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” [16] [a]

17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,  adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.  All these evils come from inside and defile a person.

Also, this desana is very good for them.

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