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by vkasdn
Thu Oct 29, 2020 3:39 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Thank you so much, I heard this story from a talk long ago and forgot where it's from..
by vkasdn
Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:08 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Hello, just wondering if anyone is able to find a sutta, it is about a low caste member who was bad at memorizing even a single verse, so the Buddha gave him a white cloth and told him to rub it between is fingers and say 'unclean' and eventually his seemingly clean hands managed to dirty the cloth,...
by vkasdn
Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:50 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Visuddhimagga: piti included in the formations aggregate
Replies: 4
Views: 2014

Re: Visuddhimagga: piti included in the formations aggregate

Abhidhamma places pīti as one of the wholesome mental factors, it's a jhāna factor which arises with sukha vedanā. Pīti isn't intrinsically wholesome but is reckoned as wholesome when it arises in a wholesome consciousness or as unwholesome when it arises in an unwholesome (i.e., a greed-rooted) co...
by vkasdn
Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:19 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: What is the Classical Theravada argument against consciousness outside the aggregates?
Replies: 37
Views: 7413

Re: What is the Classical Theravada argument against consciousness outside the aggregates?

Consciousness is an aggregate. Consciousness can't be 'outside' of consciousness, that isn't consciousness.

It is like asking if there is form outside of the aggregates, feeling, etc...
by vkasdn
Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:52 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Visuddhimagga: piti included in the formations aggregate
Replies: 4
Views: 2014

Re: Visuddhimagga: piti included in the formations aggregate

Abhidhamma places pīti as one of the wholesome mental factors, it's a jhāna factor which arises with sukha vedanā. The mental factors (minus perception and 'feeling') are considered as saṇkhāra khandha.
by vkasdn
Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:00 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Looking for sutta
Replies: 7
Views: 2029

Re: Looking for sutta

Was reading a sutta and it made me think of this thread Assalayana Sutta: With Assalayana MN 93 "Then the seven brahman seers said to the seer Devala the Dark, 'Now who is this, walking back & forth in the courtyard of the seven brahman seers like a village lout, saying, "Well, now, wh...
by vkasdn
Wed Oct 18, 2017 5:50 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Thank you for this! :anjali: much appreciated
by vkasdn
Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:52 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

I am unable to recall which sutta it is where the teachers of other sects are in their assembly and asked to explain a point, their student will stand up and say not to ask it of him, he does not know, ask it of me, but when the blessed one explains something not even the sound of the clearing of th...
by vkasdn
Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:33 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Thank you so much, right on the mark!
by vkasdn
Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:43 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

I am curious if anyone can tell me if there is a sutta where the buddha explains the ways of answering questions, either with yes or no, by reframing the question, answering analytically, or by counter question....or something like that. I tried finding the sutta, but now i wonder even if it was rea...
by vkasdn
Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:28 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:It is the Gītassara Sutta (A.iii.250) (The Book of Fives).
That is it exactly! Thank you kindly venerable sir

:anjali:
by vkasdn
Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:16 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

Can anyone help me find which sutta it is where the buddha advised against making music/songs from the discourse? I have been searching, but cannot find it. Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance.
by vkasdn
Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:18 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Re: Sutta help (finding certain texts)

thank you for your prompt and thoughtful reply, you hit the nail right on the head perfectly, thank you again sk much, so greatly appreciated
by vkasdn
Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:05 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Sutta help (finding certain texts)
Replies: 21
Views: 18367

Sutta help (finding certain texts)

sorry if this is posted elsewhere, search didnt prove very helpful, i am looking for a little help if anyone happens to know off-hand that would be great, but basically, there are suttas i have read, i remember the jist but it was so long ago i have forgotten the full context, so i would like to kno...
by vkasdn
Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:50 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: prefix ā vs. a
Replies: 2
Views: 2086

Re: prefix ā vs. a

:o

whoa, thank you for taking the time to write all that :twothumbsup: