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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 28
- Views: 567
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Your Dhamma Verses Here.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 659
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 48
- Views: 5118
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: 41
- Views: 1066
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5118
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1066
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: 41
- Views: 1066
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: 774
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.