Indeed, and it's very clear. It's puzzles me that some don't (won't?) understand this.
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4982
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1030
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Anything we fabricate If they are qualities then that isn’t quite true. Also nibbana is said to be a dhamma. Conditioned qualities are fabricated. And nibbana is beyond fabrication by definition. We have to distinguish between conditioned and unconditioned dhammas. "Anything we experience"...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1030
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Anything we experience?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 773
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Hello, I keep running into this statement in Ajahn Chah's teachings. I don't understand the logic. To me this sounds like a logical fallacy, because it doesn't matter what kind of thing you own, it just does not follow that said thing will 'obey your commands', especially if it's not even a being o...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
- Replies: 75
- Views: 4038
Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
I sometimes wonder whether the focus on suffering puts people off.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
No.cappuccino wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:18 pmEternalism means you do not change
(You are the same person you always were)
Annihilationism means you won’t exist
(Period)
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
So you agree that nothing is annihilated because there are no things that inherently exist in the first place? No that’s annihilationism Trying to sneak past I think you're missing the point. In the suttas both eternalism and annihiliationism are based on the assumption of a self. Eternalism is the...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
It's not a "way of thinking", it's what the suttas say.cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:27 pmI know this way of thinkingSpiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:52 pm When the parts are assembled
we use the word ‘chariot’.
It’s not the full picture
Anyway, what is the full picture in your view?
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Have you read SN 5.10? A nun? She thinks that way “Why do you believe there’s such a thing as a ‘sentient being’? Māra, is this your theory? This is just a pile of conditions, you won’t find a sentient being here. When the parts are assembled we use the word ‘chariot’. So too, when the aggregates a...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Why "no"? Have you read SN 5.10?cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:57 pmNo…Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:01 pmBecause there is nothing to be annihilated. See SN 5.10.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Please say briefly what you think DO is about then.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Because there is nothing to be annihilated. See SN 5.10.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Where does the above passage talk about afterlife? It doesn't.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Non-Buddhist Practices and Buddhadhamma
- Replies: 7
- Views: 387
Re: Non-Buddhist Practices and Buddhadhamma
I think AN 4.183 is also talking about the same thing, namely if a spiritual practice leads to less hate, greed and delusion then its fine. To me this would mean that if we look at say meditation, then a wide range of practices can be used. This is actually what we see in the suttas themselves. Mak...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 19387
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
The state of mind called nirvana is also the afterlife state of mind Really? Where in the suttas does it say that? “There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-no...