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If you choose to have children, embrace it as a path of practice, finding the Dhamma in every aspect of family life. To be in a Buddhist practice means to sit every day in faith that such freedom is possible. Introduction The theme of children and childhood in Buddhist studies has only recently begun to receive academic attention.

Attachment and aversion: no one who has ever had their child spend months waiting for a birthday party, only to cry until the last guest is gone, can question the insatiability of desire and the impossibility of fulfilling it with a real event.

Wanting to get some Buddhist opinions on this one. Perhaps because the Buddha-to-be abandoned his own son in order to pursue his quest for enlightenment, or because Buddhism tends toward celibacy as an ideal, the role of children in Buddhist traditions has been little more than a footnote in scholarly literature.

This might reveal attachments to pride and external validation. This leads to a more generic hypothetical question as to what happens if all people in the world stop having children?. Ultimately, the decision to have children or not is deeply personal.

Your lovingkindness sings out of the page! How can you want to break the cycle.

Creating more beings to suffer? And so, what is dharmic parenting? Donate Donate. Their resilience is truly inspiring. Doesn't it imply that Buddhist laymen who are married should not have children to stop this cycle of rebirth. Please try again.

For those who choose to have children, time becomes a precious commodity. Thank you for these thoughts! As a nonprofit, we depend on readers like you to keep Buddhist teachings and practices widely available. This, I have come to think, is a challenge posed to the traditional Buddhist teaching by the particular circumstances of practice in the West.

What was plaguing me was an insight into the irredeemable, nonnegotiable temporariness not of attachment—as I first thought—but of experience itself. Is having children considered as creating more suffering? 13 In Buddhism having a rebirth is itself a origin of all the Dukhhas.

There are many different monastic codes in the Buddhist world, but all of them share the basic principle of Buddhism, i. Rāhula is known in Buddhist texts for his eagerness for learning, and was honored by novice monks and nuns throughout Buddhist history.

I like to think that perhaps I had created the circumstance in which insight could arise for my son. It is a virtual truism that no circumstance is not apt, to the attentive mind, for spiritual growth, from abject poverty and tragedy to joy and surfeit.

In the view of a Buddhist would having a child be considered detrimental to your own path?? To love children deeply is not only to risk a catastrophic loss; to love children is also to lose them over and over again, on a daily and momentary basis, not as they die, or move away, but as they, simply, grow.

His accounts have led to a perspective in Buddhism of seeing children as hindrances to the spiritual life on the one hand, and as people with potential for enlightenment on the other hand. Not only the commercial makers, the toy makers, the fast food makers, not only all those, but we ourselves are part of the vast conspiracy of reality that threatens the head that we love.

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I asked myself, standing in the moonlit room. The Tricycle Newsletter A weekly update on everything you need to know on tricycle. From a Buddhist perspective, what matters most is not the choice itself, but how we approach it and live with its corresponding results.

Or are said beings destined to exist so by being born into a Buddhist family they have a greater chance of attaining Nirvana? Recently. Donate Now Help us share Buddhist teachings Tricycle is a nonprofit that depends on reader support.