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by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great rebirth debate
Replies: 7546
Views: 1331143

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.
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
Replies: 17
Views: 2826

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...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 75
Views: 5539

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...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:15 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great rebirth debate
Replies: 7546
Views: 1331143

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...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 75
Views: 5539

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
Replies: 7
Views: 155

Popularity of Mahāyāna

In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
by Ceisiwr
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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Immersed in Freedom
Replies: 4
Views: 143

Re: Immersed in Freedom

Pondera wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:39 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:30 pm
Pondera wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:03 am
ekaggata
Ekaggatā is used to preserve the meaning of the more obscure ekodi: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/ek ... n-web/3823
Interesting read. Thanks, C.
You're welcome.
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:55 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
Replies: 4
Views: 137

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"...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 75
Views: 5539

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 26
Views: 808

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...
by Ceisiwr
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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Kamma and intention
Replies: 31
Views: 754

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 ...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 75
Views: 5539

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
Replies: 54
Views: 62197

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...