Here is the translation of the ThigA (Therigatha commentary) by CAW Rhys Davids: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/davids/psalms/psalms.html#XLVI Wow, someone put some work into making a nice readable, organized (table of contents with hyperlinks), digital edition. Are there other works like ...

Alex123 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:24 pm ...
"Having overcome", before contemplation or after?

Thank you.

Great question.
So what have the grammatical possibilities been narrowed down to?

maybe just the adjective and adverb (2 of the 7) have been eliminated?

... Pubbakālakiriyā-uttarakālakiriyā . ... That wouldn't be possible. The imperative is a grammatical mood, but non-finite verb forms (of which the absolutive is one) are moodless. ... Thanks Venerable. To clarify: imperative is impossible in that case, but optative is possible but unlikely for the...

Some people say, in meditation we need to make an effort to make our breathing subtle, deep and slow, while others say we shouldn't try to control our breathing, we should just observe it. What is your opinion on this? Best way is to try out all options and discover your own conclusions, keep an op...

... So which one of the 7 do you favor for the sati formula? simultaneous, sequential, causal? My impression is most translators seem to favor "having removed greed and distress, AND THEN they see body as a body." Did that list of 7 also include an imperative? I always thought "one S...

:namaste: The Sutta reference is : Linked Discourses 48.53 (Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.53) : Sekhasutta https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn48/sn48.053.than.html Here the translation of the sentence " Na heva kho kāyena phusitvā viharati ;" is given as " but he does not touch them ...

... How can they do Jhana without a physical body to feel bliss? ;) Try reading some suttas. It shouldn't take too long to find ones where Buddha is conversing with Brahma, with involves ears and hearing, emitting audible sound, visible form to the Buddha, etc. Brahmas operate in rūpa, which is phy...

… None of this answers my question. you asked: why does someone in the 4th Jhāna not feel pain if an insect bites him? and I responded one DOES feel pain in 4th jhana, because the 5 senses operate. if the pain is overwhelming, it knocks one out of 4th jhana. If it's mild pain, one can ignore it. Vi...

So you're saying brahma gods, who don't need to breathe, do suddenly grow a nose, lungs, and start watching a breath at their nose when they do metta and brahma viharas? No, but is it the case they don't breathe? The gods of the brahma realm have no gender, no need to eat food, no need to breathe, ...

... To get as close as possible to what the Buddha means, you need to consult the earliest definition. And in this case, the earliest definition is found in the Vibhaṅga, and it says, "at the tip of the nose or at the lip": https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5636 :anjali...

...I think you understood what I meant by "tradition" and "absorbed". I suspect what you might mean, but am not sure. If you're asking what a legitimate EBT interpretation of 4 jhāna formula means, MN 111 and MN 137 make it absolutely clear there's a physical body experiencing p...

Another problem with the [wrong] literal spatial interpretation of parimukha, which I never saw anyone point out, is 'pari-mukham satim upatthavetva' is saying the 'establishing of sati' is 'parimukha', not "the in breath and out breath" is parimukha. Sati means remembering and applying th...

... I’m fine with my original question. Your original question is completely vague and uses your own lexicon where no one else would know for certain what you're talking about. "traditional" means what? What the Buddha spoke, or what the commentators who came 500 years later said contradi...

And what about Brahma realm gods, who don't even breathe or eat food? How do Brahma gods do metta and other 4 brahmaviharas without watching the breath at their nostril? It’s said when there is the 1st Jhana one cannot speak, so how do they communicate? According to the commentaries it’s because th...

And what about Brahma realm gods, who don't even breathe or eat food?

How do Brahma gods do metta and other 4 brahmaviharas without watching the breath at their nostril?