Thread: Farang teachers have to learn how to wai a Buddha image to get their teachers licence

Let's talk about 'falang' teachers. I once had this UK professional teacher that said "come here". I looked inside his teacher's bag .


What was inside?

2kg of of pot. KSR Gold...

More stories later, maybe...

Originally Posted by Smeg

^ Yes, farang TEFLers are very indiscrete in their beer drinking and public whoring. Perhaps they'd benefit from lessons in drinking whiskey & soda and going to sex massage parlours.

Smeg...maybe you could add supplemental lessons to what Bruce teaches his students....

Bruce...how to be a teacher.
Smeg...how to be a boozing, whoremongering, useless teacher and stay under the "radar" of the school.

A business opportunity for sure!!!!!

i know a teacher that got busted for buying dope while supervising a field trip in bkk. consequence? kept on at his uni and he plead guilty to purchase/possession with intent and paid his fine. total joke.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

TEFLer comes in to school in the morning stinking of booze and perfume and an obvious bar girl hanging onto his arm, and introduces her as, "some bird I picked up last night,"

So, this happens on a regular basis with you, your friends, your school, etc.? Teachers bring bar girls to their school, do they?

When? Where? Which school?

Says a lot about:

- the company you keep, or,
- your complete ignorance of what constitutes professional teaching

Takes one to know one!

Although I suspect your teaching skills would come up to the sub-elementary level.

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

What about how it's practiced in everyday life in Thailand? With the spirit houses, praying to Buddha for money and good luck, accepting social injustice due to bad karma or erroneous previous lives, etc. etc. etc. Load of crap, imho. It matters little whether or not the above represent a "corruption" of Buddhism, since Buddhism is corrupted in every culture that practices it. It's just another religion, full of rituals and beliefs.

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

Originally Posted by obsidian

i know a teacher that got busted for buying dope while supervising a field trip in bkk. consequence? kept on at his uni and he plead guilty to purchase/possession with intent and paid his fine. total joke.

A field trip at a University? With 18-21 year olds?

Did they all carry sack lunches and line up when the teacher raised the flag and blew his whistle?

Use a few grad students as heavies, to keep the boys from pulling the girls hair and stop the damn note-passing?

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

You're missing the point. This is not about what 'real' Buddhism is, as opposed to what is taught or practised.
This discussion is about having Buddhism as a subject taught at school, which is clearly is. There's nothing intrinsically bad about that, but just see reality for what it is

Originally Posted by Texpat

Originally Posted by obsidian

i know a teacher that got busted for buying dope while supervising a field trip in bkk. consequence? kept on at his uni and he plead guilty to purchase/possession with intent and paid his fine. total joke.

A field trip at a University? With 18-21 year olds?

Did they all carry sack lunches and line up when the teacher raised the flag and blew his whistle?

Use a few grad students as heavies, to keep the boys from pulling the girls hair and stop the damn note-passing?

tex --- you are out of your element. stick with taxidermy and collecting pirate eye patches.

Originally Posted by Texpat

[ field trip at a University? With 18-21 year olds?

Unfortunately, it's all too true.

I've ben involved in a couple. Supervised field trips. Chaperones. All students in uniform. Singing uni songs and waving uni flags.

Par for the course...

Treated like children until they are 22 then suddenl become adults overnight...no wonder they are so fucked up as adults! Still need the same level of guidance and control as they did as students.

Thought you'd have been around Thailand long enough to have run into it from time to time, even if you aren't involved in teaching?

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

Mahayana or Theravada? Which one is correct, and why?

Religion cannot be discussed in pristine isolation, it will be interpreted and practiced by human beings in different ways, with differing interpretations. Hence all religions' claims to the "truth" are suspect.

Which is why it shouldn't be taught in school.

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

Mahayana or Theravada? Which one is correct, and why?

Religion cannot be discussed in pristine isolation, it will be interpreted and practiced by human beings in different ways, with differing interpretations. Hence all religions' claims to the "truth" are suspect.

Which is why it shouldn't be taught in school.

Buddha taught that everything should be questioned and your reality is YOUR reality so how can the words of another (Bible, Koran) contain the truth. The truth cannot be found in a temple, church or pope. That's why Insight meditation is used. We spend all our lives looking out at a material world but truth, whatever truth is, can only be found within you. Buddhism as taught by Buddha is a practical means to discover your truth; it doesn't tell you the truth as that's for you to discover.

We spend all our lives looking out at a material world but truth, whatever truth is, can only be found within you

And that, Dave, is YOUR interpretation, which is no different froma nyone else, in terms of validity.

Discussion of religion is such a heated topic simply because it is so emotive. There are no rights or wrongs, just beliefs . . . individual or collective (I believe you are stating something similar)

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Buddhism/Dhamma is a moral way to live your life - which Thai school do you know that does that?

Dave,

I'll speak slowly and give you a quick list......ready.....

EVERY government school. Not some, not just a few....every government school.

In 95% of private schools. The only schools that don't teach Buddhism are the schools based around another religion/moral way to lead your life.

Next question?

this merits at least a nod of recognition if not a thank you, david.

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

Mahayana or Theravada? Which one is correct, and why?

Religion cannot be discussed in pristine isolation, it will be interpreted and practiced by human beings in different ways, with differing interpretations. Hence all religions' claims to the "truth" are suspect.

Which is why it shouldn't be taught in school.

Buddha taught that everything should be questioned and your reality is YOUR reality so how can the words of another (Bible, Koran) contain the truth. The truth cannot be found in a temple, church or pope. That's why Insight meditation is used. We spend all our lives looking out at a material world but truth, whatever truth is, can only be found within you. Buddhism as taught by Buddha is a practical means to discover your truth; it doesn't tell you the truth as that's for you to discover.

Is that ^ taught in Thai schools? Or are they getting the "Thais are #1 Buddhists" version?

All sounds very subjective to me, hardly empirical.

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

Originally Posted by DaveRobin

Originally Posted by obsidian

in thailand buddhism is a religion. come on david, get real.

In Thailand Buddhism is mostly a tradition. People in saffron robes use tattoos, amulets, spirit houses and magic spells to help lay people acquire material wealth. They call themselves monks and they describe this hocus pocus as Buddhism - it's not.

Monks/lay people who follow dhamma live lives restricted by precepts (no hocu pocus) and use vipassana meditation as a means to observe and develop their mind. Buddhism as Buddha taught is a way to live a moral live. Buddha stated before he died that he didn't want his Teachings to become a religion.

Mahayana or Theravada? Which one is correct, and why?

Religion cannot be discussed in pristine isolation, it will be interpreted and practiced by human beings in different ways, with differing interpretations. Hence all religions' claims to the "truth" are suspect.

Which is why it shouldn't be taught in school.

Buddha taught that everything should be questioned and your reality is YOUR reality so how can the words of another (Bible, Koran) contain the truth. The truth cannot be found in a temple, church or pope. That's why Insight meditation is used. We spend all our lives looking out at a material world but truth, whatever truth is, can only be found within you. Buddhism as taught by Buddha is a practical means to discover your truth; it doesn't tell you the truth as that's for you to discover.

Is that ^ taught in Thai schools? Or are they getting the "Thais are #1 Buddhists" version?

All sounds very subjective to me, hardly empirical.

All very subjective indeed. Belief is hardly empirical and therefore shouldn't be taught in school.

Regarding Nong and Pee.
I have a younger brother a Nong Chai. He has 2 daughters both older than my daughter. As his senior that makes my Look Sao the pee of their cousins?
Is that correct?

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Regarding Nong and Pee.
I have a younger brother a Nong Chai. He has 2 daughters both older than my daughter. As his senior that makes my Look Sao the pee of their cousins?
Is that correct?

but if they go to toilet together they'll be Look Pee

Excellent Dave