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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Replies: 384
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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
It is not a contradiction as I have explained it to you because contradiction requires two mutually exclusive statements.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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- Views: 13876
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
So it has a dependent nature and an independent one. This is a contradiction, and is a doctrine of the Jains. It doesn't. It is fully dependent on conditions, not independent. Not solipsism/idealism. Yet you say it also has an independent nature. Emptiness is the absence of that in all things. It d...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
Thank you!sphairos wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:39 pm Hi Alex123.
There is a new very thorough book on momentariness in Theravāda (under the supervision of R. Gethin):
https://uvhw.de/files/3_uvHW_Leseproben ... SAMPLE.pdf
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
So a tree is part dependent, part independent? Sounds like Jainism to me. It is fully dependent on its conditions, but not on consciousness. In other words, you can't through imagination will it into existence . So it has a dependent nature and an independent one. This is a contradiction, and is a ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: "Hypnogogic" imagery during long meditation sits.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 859
Re: "Hypnogogic" imagery during long meditation sits.
Do you still see these dreams? What are they? Any example/memory? Not recently. An example: I see a piece of paper with something written on it. Sometimes I could even read a bit, but mostly not. Or I see something random, and as usual I try to snap out of it ASAP because I am getting away from med...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: "Hypnogogic" imagery during long meditation sits.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 859
Re: "Hypnogogic" imagery during long meditation sits.
Staring into a bright lamp can damage your eyes. Maybe, though optometrist I've talked to doesn't think it is the case. I sometimes look at bright lamp to counteract hypnogogic imagery (that might be due to sleepiness). I meditate mostly when it is dark which might be contributing to sleepiness. I'...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
Also interesting to note the inherent contradiction here. People will claim that trees are independent, yet they will also say they are dependent on their environment. How can a thing have two contradictory natures? In the first case you had independence of observers. In the 2nd case you had indepe...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ven. Yinshun: Samyutta/Samyukta Buddhism
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Re: Ven. Yinshun: Samyutta/Samyukta Buddhism
The two celebrated scholars of Theravada, Bhikkhu Bodhi and Thanissaro Bhikkhu point to the contrary SN 47.42, which elucidates the 4 establishments of Mindfulness in an entirely different manner. BB notes that its thrust goes against the general thrust of the Theravada/Vibajjavadin tradition. Both...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Replies: 384
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Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
Ceisiwr wrote: What do we mean when we say something is real? For the average worldly person they mean said thing has objective existence, i.e. independent existence "The tree exists independently of observers". Also interesting to note the inherent contradiction here. People will claim t...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Craving vs Ignorance as the Root of Suffering.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 735
Re: Craving vs Ignorance as the Root of Suffering.
... Question: Why was craving rather than ignorance emphasized in 4NT? Wouldn't it be more precise to say that it is " ignorance fueled craving that makes for further becoming... "?... There are moments when the vedanā are not present. This doesn't mean there's understanding by then. It o...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Craving vs Ignorance as the Root of Suffering.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 735
Craving vs Ignorance as the Root of Suffering.
Hello all, As you know in 4NT it says that: " And this, monks, is the noble truth of the origination of stress: the craving that makes for further becoming—accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now here & now there—i.e., craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for no...