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- Fri May 04, 2012 6:52 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Has anyone tried to recall the previous life?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11933
- Fri May 04, 2012 4:54 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Has anyone tried to recall the previous life?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11933
Re: Has anyone tried to recall the previous life?
Why is it whenever you hear of people recalling past lives it's always a human past life? When you hear of people getting regressional past life therapy it's ALWAYS a human life. Surely they'd be able to remember if they were in a hell realm or a heavenly realm. I'll look forward to the convenient ...
- Fri May 04, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Has anyone tried to recall the previous life?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11933
Re: Has anyone tried to recall the previous life?
Previous life was in devanamanarati [habitable planet in Pleione star]; before as Giuseppe Vicenzi Bartolassi [which is, currently, my ancestor]; before as a tree; and before that countless lives that encrypted when living in Pleione... however do remember also living in Japan [as a samurai] and Ho...
- Fri May 04, 2012 10:39 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How to guard the sense doors?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3777
- Fri May 04, 2012 9:40 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8770
Re: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
Through ignorance, one may sink into bewilderment On meeting the vast and deep meaning of the Supreme Vehicle, Therefore disparaging the Great Vehicle And becoming the adversary of both self and others. Giving, moral virtue, patience, vigor, Meditative discipline, wisdom and compassion form its sub...
- Thu May 03, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8770
Re: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
To me, at the moment, it feels like we are like trees in a bushfire, concentrating on completely putting out just one tree is quite futile - it will catch back on fire, but controlling the fire around it may be more beneficial. A tree with a direct connection to the groundwater source of Dhamma wou...
- Thu May 03, 2012 1:23 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: How did the Buddha reach Awakening?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4113
Re: How did the Buddha reach Awakening?
Teachings given to people with different backgrounds and Buddha using concepts and systems they were already familiar with? So to some people the Buddha has said that " I've used A for Awakening " and to other people the Buddha has said that " I've used not-A for awakening " ? M...
- Thu May 03, 2012 12:40 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: How did the Buddha reach Awakening?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4113
Re: How did the Buddha reach Awakening?
Teachings given to people with different backgrounds and Buddha using concepts and systems they were already familiar with?
- Wed May 02, 2012 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Monks who did not practise jhana?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4267
Re: Monks who did not practise jhana?
Maybe Alara Kalama, Uddaka Ramaputta etc were also afraid of states with (bodily) pleasures and didn't have the lower jhanas in the system they taught. Perhaps there is somewhere a more detailed discussion about this possibility? Alexander Wynne wrote a book about this: The Origin of Buddhist Medit...
- Wed May 02, 2012 6:08 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8770
Re: Is Vajrayana/Mahayana the work of Mara?
[Bad joke. Mara's work.]
- Tue May 01, 2012 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Monks who did not practise jhana?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4267
Re: Monks who did not practise jhana?
You say: "which shows how by gradually dropping off coarser things from perception one can achieve "The Infinitude of Space" and higher states without going through jhanas 1-4, which aren't even mentioned." Are you thinking of some sort of "meditation" or concentration...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Monks who did not practise jhana?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4267
Re: Monks who did not practise jhana?
* Then we find this remarkable passage: "I thought: 'I recall once, when my father the Sakyan was working, and I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree, then — quite secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful mental qualities — I entered & remained in the first jhana: r...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:42 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: A Discussion of Western Buddhist Monasticism
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13614
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great thread on Sensual Craving
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4501
Re: The great thread on Sensual Craving
What is the all? Burning with what?
The Fire Sermon
The Fire Sermon
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great thread on Sensual Craving
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4501
Re: The great thread on Sensual Craving
Note to self: Sensual craving is craving for sensations, having sensations is existence, seeing it like it really is - all is burning - is the end of the taint of sensations, the end of the taint of existence, the end of the taint of ignorance, i.e. the end of suffering.