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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7548
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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. Really? Where do the suttas describe the Arahant having a "death-free awareness"? “Freed, dissociated, & rel...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
“Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bāhuna, the Tathāgata dwells with unrestricted awareness. Which ten? Freed, dissociated, & released from form, the Tathāgata dwells with unrestricted awareness. Freed, dissociated, & released from feeling… Freed, dissociated, & releas...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
The senses are all there is? Is there such a thing as the deathless, do you think? (Also known as the permanent, the island, the incomparable, the unmade). Which sense is it, then? Read the Sabba Sutta. Nibbana is experienced in the mind, see the third frame of the Satipatthana Sutta. Mano is incon...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
Zom wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:42 am(MN 44, Sujato)They regard form as self, self as having form, form in self, or self in form.
1. Body is a self.
2. A self has (some material) form.
3. A self is something bigger than body and so it includes body.
3. A self is something smaller than body and hides inside a body.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
MikeRalphKing wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:31 amAt Savatthi. "Bhikkhus, there are these four portions. What
four? The portion of identity, the portion of the origin of
identity, the portion of the cessation of identity, the portion of the
way leading to the cessation of identity. (SN 22.103 Portions)
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7548
- Views: 1331475
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
He does, however, frequently speak about the self as though it does exist, without warning people that he's actually talking about something that doesn't. Perhaps you've forgotten about this verse from SN 5.10: "Why now do you assume 'a being'? Mara, have you grasped a view? This is a heap of ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 7
- Views: 191
Re: Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my nearest city there is Triratna, two Tibetan groups, and a Zen group.
There was a Thai Forest group, but it shut down - they seem to have a monastic focus anyway.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:15 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
Do explain it for our benefit if you can. Is the following passage not clear to you? "If I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is a self — were to answer that there is a self, would that be in keeping with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self?" "No,...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:12 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
Re: Identity View
Read them many times. They're clear, yes. Your point is not. The senses are all there is (Sabba Sutta) and the senses are empty of self (Sunna Sutta). Again, is this not clear to you? The senses are all there is? Is there such a thing as the deathless, do you think? (Also known as the permanent, th...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 86
- Views: 5710
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 the...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
- Replies: 5
- Views: 183
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: 32
- Views: 805
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
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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...