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by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:16 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

Dear Abu The one teaching the right way, the discernable way, the possible way, has goodwill. Nibbana comes from Right View and not from goodwill. Goodwill is a mundane dhamma. http://i40.tinypic.com/4ikmjc.jpg There is a reason the Buddha asked only those who had genuine realisation to teach. [EDI...
by teacup_bo
Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:55 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

I think it is always both useful and truthful to ask oneself: "I am here to teach when I should be learning given I am only a learner?" But if that were true, why are you still trying to teach? Your quoting of sutras all day is like people who repeat the Bible but do not practice one ounc...
by teacup_bo
Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:12 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

Hi Teacup, it is "cotton wool" Nibbana rather than fearless free Nibbana. Hogwash. :popcorn: Would you care to expand on this? With no accompanying clarification it just looks like a rather unhelpful insult. Best wishes, Dhammanando Bhikkhu Well for one, this: It is baby Nibbana and teena...
by teacup_bo
Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:03 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What's your favorite Buddha's quote?
Replies: 20
Views: 6291

Re: What's your favorite Buddha's quote?

Staying at Savatthi. "Monks, suppose there were four strong archers — well-trained, practiced, & drilled — standing in the four directions, and a man were to come along saying, 'I will catch & bring down the arrows let fly by these four strong archers — well-trained, practiced, & d...
by teacup_bo
Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:58 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retreats and Money
Replies: 8
Views: 3126

Re: Retreats and Money

Nice. Thanks, genkaku.
by teacup_bo
Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:07 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

Element wrote:it is "cotton wool" Nibbana rather than fearless free Nibbana.
Hogwash. :popcorn:
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:56 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: E-Sangha
Replies: 79
Views: 24979

Re: E-Sangha

Perhaps we are saying the same thing. Yes, and the wonderful thing about the correlations in the teachings is that they can ring true on so many levels and in so many ways. :hello: Yes it is quite wondrous how many words and perspectives and ways it can be brought to bear ie pointers to Truth/Dharm...
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

kowtaaia wrote:
tiltbillings wrote:
kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists.
Nibbana exists where, and how?
Where you aren't. It is when conditioning comes to an end.
Thankyou for your pointing, kow.

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kowtaaia - what does your avatar say? I can't read it completely.

Thankyou.
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:37 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: E-Sangha
Replies: 79
Views: 24979

Re: E-Sangha

Seng T'san, in addressing preferences ("Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart."), makes the same point as "Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another." Genkaku's "Elevating or suppressing the one in o...
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:27 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: E-Sangha
Replies: 79
Views: 24979

Re: E-Sangha

OK here it is - I will air my complaint which I haven't done so far - which is my problem with E-sangha was the way some moderators used their position/"powers" - and then a systematic banning of members in a closed-circuit manner, and then the general lack of open-mindedness which I put d...
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:04 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

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As a tentative teaching by the great Luang Por Chah -

:buddha1:

Let your aim be Nibbana
http://www.abhayagiri.org/index.php/main/article/38/
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:57 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: claptrap
Replies: 28
Views: 7379

Re: claptrap

to take some imagined goodness as a refuge is a recipe for more suffering, I'd say. So refuge in the Triple Gem is a recipe for more suffering? First you disparage the Dhamma, now the rest of the Triple Gem as well? I think it's impossible to know if anyone is disparaging what until the matter of t...
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:35 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31661

Re: Nibbana

kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists. :jumping:
Nibbana. :namaste:
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:25 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Women can't become Buddhas?
Replies: 214
Views: 59281

Re: Women can't be enlightened?

... Perhaps the Buddha himself never said that women are inferior to men... Ya think? :) Of course, the Buddha never said that. Awakening has nothing to do with gender. Thankyou, kowtaaia. Out of all the myths that we humans share amidst each other - for example, separation, selfishness, money - th...
by teacup_bo
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:20 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: E-Sangha
Replies: 79
Views: 24979

Re: E-Sangha

Elevating or suppressing the one in order to eradicate the other is a fool's errand. I find a lot of resonance in this, from Nisargadatta Maharaj: "Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that ...