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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Yellow Page Teachings - Ajahn Jayasāro
- Replies: 295
- Views: 32516
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 948
Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
And that somehow a few century after Buddha, monks and nuns misunderstood the Buddha, going bat crazy, and started to stare at disk made of earth, fire, or bowl water, etc. These monks are so crazy that they conjure it all up and wrote it down in Abhidhamma, and all the *magga: Patisambhidhamagga, ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Dhp. 97
- Replies: 9
- Views: 351
Re: Dhp. 97
This is from Carter and Palihawadana's excellent translation of the Commentary.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: BMC is Unorthodox
- Replies: 5
- Views: 499
Re: BMC is Unorthodox
Very interesting
Any particularly glaring errors that could be clarified?
Any particularly glaring errors that could be clarified?
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
- Replies: 85
- Views: 6306
Re: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
There are suttas where people meet the Buddha and don't recognise him, even those who knew of the Dhamma and followed it. If he was truly of remarkable appearance, word of that would've surely spread and that would not have happened. See, for example https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.1...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 680
Re: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
https://www.buddhanet.net/bud_lt10.htm Misconceptions There are some who take delight in making the Buddha a non-human. They quote a passage from the Anguttara Nikâya (II, 37), mistranslate it, and misunderstand it. The story goes thus: Once the Buddha was seated under a tree in the meditation postu...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 260
Re: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
).Threefold, however, is the fruit of karma: ripening during the life-time (dittha-dhamma-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in the next birth (upapajja-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in later births (aparápariya-vedaníya kamma)
…" (A.VI, 63
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: An Anapanasati Question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1368
Re: An Anapanasati Question
... The Devas have to take on a gross form in order to interact with the human world, so how is the physical gross body meant? I never unblocked you from my ignore list, just on rare occasion selectively opening one of your posts if the topic caught my eye. I had not engaged in conversation with yo...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Jhana and the factors of awakening
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1456
Re: Jhana and the factors of awakening
Different strokes for different folks. Jhana was a word used for various attainments... the Buddha redefined it by outlining how his jhana is attained. Alternatively, it's an outlier. I can only think of one other Instance in the suttas that tangentially suggests that the jhanas were widely practic...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:56 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Nibbana in the Visuddhimagga
- Replies: 10
- Views: 484
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Path of "Right Endurance" of Ven. Nyanamoli (from Hillside Hermitage) incompatible with the Noble Eightfold Path
- Replies: 102
- Views: 6762
Re: Path of "Right Endurance" of Ven. Nyanamoli (from Hillside Hermitage) incompatible with the Noble Eightfold Path
Agreed. The Buddha calls one who endures a sensual thought "lazy" and thoroughly praises those who immediately destroy them. The teaching in question is thus encouraging laziness. Therefore it is not Dhamma. Perhaps the venerable was approaching it from this aspect: https://www.accesstoin...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: NO self
- Replies: 141
- Views: 33825
Re: NO self
I edited your post to make the section I quoted from Dhammanando clear.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
- Replies: 8
- Views: 713
Re: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
So if, for instance, I see that craving is arising from the sense door of the ear, would it not be wise of me to shift it towards a nuetral sensation that is not easily clung to like the taste of my mouth? This seems in line with training the sense door to avoid craving. The craving has already ari...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:13 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Paccaya and Dependant Origination
- Replies: 18
- Views: 672
Re: Paccaya and Dependant Origination
I am just happy to know that it is there for the time being. For me, it is enough to know that everything is dependently originated. :D :sage: And this is key. Then we can read all the Tipitaka without introducing a self. No one who is reading or contemplating but there are processes occuring, seei...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
- Replies: 8
- Views: 713
Re: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
Being that I am not an Arahant, wouldn't it be wise to develop and prolong the Kiriya that I do have to decrease kamma? It seems like proper training of mind and sense door averting consciousness would be a good use of time. Thoughts? The panca-dvaravajjana-citta (sense door adverting consciousness...