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Luangta Maha Boowa's writings
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- Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:54 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Theravadin Resource guide
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- Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to contemplate dukkha
- Replies: 13
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Re: How to contemplate dukkha
Besides looking at it in terms of breaking it up into the khandas, one thing you can do is to experience the suffering fully. Don't fight it or try and get rid of it, but instead open your heart/citta to it completely. Where the khanda investigation is active, this is a passive form, and both can be...
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Emptiness and the true self
- Replies: 20
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Re: Emptiness and the true self
Maybe I'm wrong but to say explicitly that "there is no self" is a form of nihilism, which would fall into wrong view. As far as I know the Buddha didn't say that there is no self, but that there is no "self" in any "thing". No things belong to a self. Therefore nothing...