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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7546
- Views: 1331115
Re: the great rebirth debate
Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awareness. Of course they don’t, because Arahants don’t ultimately exist. And you know that how? From the suttas and tradition.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2820
Re: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
Dear Dhamma Friends It is indeed very well to remember Venerable Katukurnda Nanananda Thero. Through his series of books on Nivena Nevema and other volumes, the light of Dhamma shown to us. An this is stepping stone for further Development of Mind.It is through Venerable Dhamma sermons that Aloko U...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5524
Re: Identity View
Mano is inconstant, alterable, subject to change. Dhammā are inconstant, alterable, subject to change. That which is inconstant is dukkha. The Buddha taught that Nibbāna is deathless, unchanging, the end of dukkha, the foremost bliss. It’s still known via the mind though isn’t it. Ven. Sāriputta ex...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7546
- Views: 1331115
Re: the great rebirth debate
Nibbana is the cessation of craving, aversion and ignorance, not the end of existence. It’s also the cessation of existence. Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awarenes...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5524
Re: Identity View
Yes and the arahant dwells with an awareness dissociated, disjoined and freed from all five aggregates. An awareness that's dissociated, freed and released from death, from the world, from the All. Really? Where does it say that in the suttas? “Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bā...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 7
- Views: 154
Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
- Replies: 4
- Views: 114
Re: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
Thank you both for your guidance. Any books (psychology, Buddhist practise/wisdom, anything!) that would be brilliant. I also struggle with anxiety so all guidance gratefully received. And thanks again. Always a good place to start: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachi...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Immersed in Freedom
- Replies: 4
- Views: 142
Re: Immersed in Freedom
You're welcome.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
- Replies: 4
- Views: 130
Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
In this commentary on the Visuddhimagga, regarding the section which discusses nibbāna, Ven. Dhammapāla writes this yadi nibbānaṃ nāma sabhāvadhammo atthi sattasantānapariyāpanno ca, atha kasmā catumahāpathe sabhā viya sabbasādhāraṇā na labbhatīti āha "maggasamaṅginā pattabbato asādhāraṇa"...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5524
Re: Identity View
Why would he speak so often about a self conventionally without ever telling anyone that this was the case? What's the difference between a conventional truth that isn't ultimately true and a lie? Where does the Buddha say he would have said there is no self if it wouldn't confuse V? In DN9, when t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
- Replies: 26
- Views: 803
Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
hi. on this link Pubbaseliya, Theravada of the Third Council Is there any article that summarizes the opinions of each school? I can't find it well :cry: If you want to know more about the doctrines of the early schools then I recommend “The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle” André Bareau. I po...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
- Replies: 1
- Views: 41
On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
There is an interesting discussion that happens in DN 9 which I've never noticed before. In that sutta the Buddha is asked the following questions: Is the cosmos is eternal? Is the cosmos not eternal? he cosmos is finite’ The cosmos is infinite The soul (jīvaṁ) is the same thing as the body The soul...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 738
Re: Kamma and intention
This is a really great illustration of why the Buddha didn't teach that there is no self. And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it. If all dhammas are empty of a self, then a self doesn’t exist. If everything is empty of “blue” then there is no ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5524
Re: Identity View
From the point of view of Classical Theravada the Buddha is speaking conventionally here. On the direct question of self, no-self is annihiltionism if it’s viewed in the sense of an existing Being being destroyed. The Buddha is quite clear that if Vacchagotta hadn’t been liable to such confusion, h...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62194
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
Nor did he teach that there is no self. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.nymo.html That says the aggregates aren't self. It doesn't say there's no self. Here he shows that teaching "there is no self" is an unbeneficial and confusing teaching that sides with the ex...