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by Dhammanando
Sun May 07, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What is scanning? What is the Pali word?
Replies: 5
Views: 325

Re: What is scanning? What is the Pali word?

The relevant words are pariggahaṇa for the act of scanning and pariggāhikā for the person who does it. Both are found in the commentary to the section on vedanānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhānasutta. However, "scanning" is not really a translation as such, but rather an interpretation and appl...
by Dhammanando
Sat May 06, 2023 6:54 am
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
Replies: 95
Views: 8472

Re: Fasting for uposatha...

Sorry, i don’t want to be rude. But unfortunately, none of the discussion has been cleared why the need for fasting. I think it was actually cleared up on Sunday, when Frank kindly posted a link to a page on his blog, on which all or most of the sutta passages relevant to bhojane mataññutā are conv...
by Dhammanando
Sat May 06, 2023 6:12 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

FYI , for Mahayana path a novice bodhisattva whom practice the 52 stages would required to fulfill the 1st 10 stages of... Ajātasattu: “Just as if on being asked about a mango a man were to describe a breadfruit-tree, or on being asked about a breadfruit-tree he were to describe a mango, so Pūraṇa ...
by Dhammanando
Sat May 06, 2023 2:48 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: perception of anatta has the characteristic...
Replies: 17
Views: 700

Re: perception of anatta has the characteristic...

Sabbadhammaabhinivesalakkhaṇā anattasaññā, tassā dhammasaññā padaṭṭhānaṁ. “Perception of not-self has the characteristic of non-insistence in the case of all ideas; its footing is perception of ideas.” I would translate it quite differently from Ñānamoli, taking the opening word as ablative and as ...
by Dhammanando
Fri May 05, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

Do Mahayana Bodhisattvas think helping people attain is fun? Mahayana texts that exhort people to undertake bodhisattvaship give much the same reasons as those which we find in the chapter on Great Compassion in the Paṭisambhidāmagga or in Dhammapāla's Treatise on the Paramīs . None that I've seen ...
by Dhammanando
Fri May 05, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
Replies: 95
Views: 8472

Re: Fasting for uposatha...

IOW, there is some standard, some criterion implied when certain items are called "allowed". What is that standard, that criterion? The standard is that the Buddha declared them to be so. Occasionally the Vinaya describes his thinking: At one time the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in the...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

From what i understand for a Mahayana aspirant to be a Bodhisattva , to begin on the path as an initiate most important requirement would be to generate the Bodhicitta . However , in order to generate Bodhicitta one need to develop The Four Divine Dwellings of Brahmas (cattāri brahmavihārā) as its ...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 1:14 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
Replies: 44
Views: 2451

Re: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?

I think the answer to question 2 is: through the air, abiding in glory, feeding on joy … That's what Ābhassara brahmās do. Susukhaṃ vata jīvāma, yesaṃ no natthi kiñcanaṃ; Pītibhakkhā bhavissāma, devā ābhassarā yathā. How happily, here, do we daily disport! Possessionless, we, the owners of nought. ...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 10:15 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

How is it possible that Mahayana texts make it sound easy to embark upon but in actuality rather it is super duper very hard . 😁 If I wish to become a Bodhisattva... Will I need to be a male human? Will I need to be a homeless renunciate? Will I need to have already mastered the eight vimokkhas in ...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 7:40 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
Replies: 44
Views: 2451

Re: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?

Only thing i can think of is (assuming paranimmitavasavatti heaven is a flat circle as i imagine). Mara's territory is on the edge of paranimmitavasavatti heaven. And being a paranimmitavasavatti deva, mara and his followers had thier retinue create a barrier for the portions of the heaven that wer...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 7:26 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

And Theravādins, presumably, would retort that they're just telling it as it is, while the Mahāyānists are trying to sugarcoat things. The concept of bodhisatta and its path can be found in the suttas , actually that is the instigator of Mahayana path . It seems we can sees that sugarcoating things...
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 5:17 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: how many brahmas are there at present?
Replies: 10
Views: 1024

Re: how many brahmas are there at present?

confusedlayman wrote: Wed May 03, 2023 7:38 pm thanks bhante.. i am just wondering if jhana is that tough or people can do it these days? i talk about vism type of hard jhana where people dont feel body even in access concentration
I believe so, but I don't think it's common.
by Dhammanando
Thu May 04, 2023 4:35 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

The Theravāda texts are aimed at diverting people from becoming bodhisattvas. The mahayānā texts are aimed at promoting it. And Theravādins, presumably, would retort that they're just telling it as it is, while the Mahāyānists are trying to sugarcoat things. But both sectarian boasts are irrelevant...
by Dhammanando
Wed May 03, 2023 11:14 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Bodhisatta Path
Replies: 70
Views: 3277

Re: Bodhisatta Path

There is something quite obvious that you are not taking into account. If the bodhisattva goes to hell as a result of such an action this is obviously a ripening of a negative karma. Hell is a state of suffering, no? Hell is not the result of good karma or a virtuous deed. But Asanga doesn't say th...
by Dhammanando
Wed May 03, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
Replies: 95
Views: 8472

Re: Fasting for uposatha...

Since we are discussing about an arahant, are you saying that there is an arahant who eat in twice seating? I didn't say anything about the eating habits of arahants. But now that you've raised the matter, it seems likely to me that some arahant disciples would have eaten more than one meal in the ...