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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
- Replies: 3
- Views: 52
Re: 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 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 709
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62162
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
It refers to the ultimate truths of impermanence and non-self. A mother or father is a conventional truth, but once you realise that everything is not-self, including your parents, you can say that there is no mother or father. It aims to emphasize that ultimately everything is emptiness and to les...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62162
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
Here he shows that teaching "there is no self" is an unbeneficial and confusing teaching that sides with the extreme of annihilationism: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN44_10.html No, it doesnt show that at all. This passage is very clear: "If I—being asked by Vacchagotta the...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
From the Phena Sutta: "Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick — this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they're empty, void to whoever sees them...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 709
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Your Dhamma Verses Here.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 676
Re: Your Dhamma Verses Here.
"Form is only emptiness, emptiness only form."
- The Heart Sutra
- The Heart Sutra
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
The teaching is that there are mental objects and forms and that they are without a self / they are no self (anatta) and anicca and dukkha. The teaching is that the senses are all there is, and the senses are empty of self. The teaching is that a "being" is just a convention, and that the...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
Hence, given the extensive teachings on this topic and the varied vocabularies deployed by the Buddha, I think that as a first approximation it is warranted, legitimate and useful to describe them as a teachings of no self. Buddhas useful approximation to his teachings is dukkha, it’s arising and o...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
From SN 5.10: "Why now do you assume 'a being'? Mara, have you grasped a view? This is a heap of sheer constructions: Here no being is found. Just as, with an assemblage of parts, The word 'chariot' is used, So, when the aggregates are present, There's the convention 'a being.'" https://ww...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
The senses are all there is (Sabba Sutta) and the senses are empty of self (Sunna Sutta).Suddh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:30 pmRead them many times. They're clear, yes. Your point is not.Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:21 pm Read the Sabba Sutta, then the Sunna Sutta.
It's pretty clear.
Again, is this not clear to you?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
The Buddha is quite clear that if Vacchagotta hadn’t been liable to such confusion, he would have said there is no self. A true self is an impossible thing. Indeed, and it's very clear. It's puzzles me that some don't (won't?) understand this. Do explain it for our benefit if you can. Is the follow...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193
Re: Identity View
Read the Sabba Sutta, then the Sunna Sutta.
It's pretty clear.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
It's pretty clear.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1097
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5193