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- Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Arahants
- Replies: 150
- Views: 56016
Re: Arahants
Ajahn Jayasaro gives some comments about enlightenment/arahants/Boowa from Thai Forest point of view in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u76o7xZe3PE What I remember from listening to some translations of Ajahn Maha Boowa's talks to bhikkhus, they were more about sati-pañña than samadhi or ...
- Mon May 27, 2013 11:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Cittaviveka by Ajahn Sumedho
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2414
Re: Cittaviveka by Ajahn Sumedho
Here's another site with many "Forest Sangha" books, including EPUB and MOBI versions of "Cittaviveka":
http://forestsanghapublications.org/vie ... ection.php
http://forestsanghapublications.org/vie ... ection.php
- Sun May 26, 2013 9:46 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Documentary: Half a Year of My Life (2005)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2596
Re: Documentary: Half a Year of My Life (2005)
"And your main crime is refusing to perform military service? " lol It's like your main crime is not willing to participate in killing other human beings. Becouse the point of military service is to be trained for possible war, and war is basicaly killing other being no matter if you prot...
- Sun May 26, 2013 9:43 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Documentary: Half a Year of My Life (2005)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2596
Re: Documentary: Half a Year of My Life (2005)
I see from this link that military service would have been only 6 months, which was the length of your sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_service#Finland And they have positions available that are un-armed for a 9 month hitch. But I agree in that I also don't like a forced conscriptio...
- Thu May 23, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Paper on Anattā. Can you help me to find it?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3900
Re: Paper on Anattā. Can you help me to find it?
..."Miraculous Transformation and Personal Identity: A note on the First anatman Teaching of the Second Sermon", Alexander Wynne, Thai International Journal of Buddhist Studies (2009) p.84: That the first an anātman teaching of the Second Sermon is a peculiarity requiring explanation is s...
- Thu May 23, 2013 1:24 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Paper on Anattā. Can you help me to find it?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3900
Re: Paper on Anattā. Can you help me to find it?
Here's another paper on this anātman teaching: "Miraculous Transformation and Personal Identity: A note on the First anatman Teaching of the Second Sermon", Alexander Wynne, Thai International Journal of Buddhist Studies (2009) http://www.ocbs.org/images/stories/awynne2009btijbs.pdf p.84: ...
- Sun May 19, 2013 10:05 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Need a short youtube intro to breath meditation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1909
Re: Need a short youtube intro to breath meditation
Howdy all. I have a stressed out work acquaintance that I'd like to introduce to a basic breath meditation. I'm really looking for something short and sweet - something eyecatching but useful - nonsectarian. This person is online alot which is why I'm going the youtube route instead of a book. http...
- Thu May 16, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: After all, what would make it be a religion?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14119
Re: After all, what would make it be a religion?
However the details are understood, the existence of this relationship between religious beliefs and practices and the individual's destiny — particularly after death — is why religions are referred to as soteriologies, or 'systems of salvation'. Religion as soteriology : from the Greek word soter ...
- Thu May 16, 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Dhammas beyond experience?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5145
Re: Dhammas beyond experience?
My question is: when there is no such direct experience of rapid arising and falling away, how can it be be said that citta s are in reality arising and passing away with such rapidity? Isn't the currently ongoing actual experience (whatever it is -- whether changing very slowly or rapidly) the onl...
- Thu May 16, 2013 7:40 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Abhidhamma Resources
- Replies: 86
- Views: 186844
Re: Abhidhamma Resources
ME6206 - Special topics in Buddhist studies I: Theravada Abhidhamma 1st Semester, Academic Year 2009/2010 (July 06 – November 07, 2009) Prof. Dr. Y. Karunadasa The prime focus of the course will be on the dhamma-theory, the cornerstone of the Abhidhamma philosophy. The course will introduce student...
- Thu May 16, 2013 7:24 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Abhidhamma Resources
- Replies: 86
- Views: 186844
Re: Abhidhamma Resources
A full course on Abhidhammattha Sangaha by Sayadaw U Silananda http://abhidhammattha.blogspot.com This course is also on archive.org, two large zip-files contain all audio files. The book used is Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, ed. Bhikkhu Bodhi. http://archive.org/details/ComprehensiveManualOf...
- Tue May 14, 2013 1:19 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Need references on Theravada view of self liberation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2590
Re: Need references on Theravada view of self liberation
My understanding of one difference between Mahayana and Theravada is that Mahayana uses the path of becoming a Boddhisattva on the way to being Englightened, whereas the Theravadin view is that you must be enlighted before you can help others (and that you should work for your arhatship first). The...
- Mon May 13, 2013 11:04 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Need references on Theravada view of self liberation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2590
Re: Need references on Theravada view of self liberation
Bhikkhu Anālayo's freely available book "The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal" has something, for example p. 27: Several discourses indicate that teaching others is of such importance for a monastic that neglecting to do so will obstruct progress on the path. In fact, one out of several po...
- Mon May 13, 2013 12:10 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: As a mother protects with her life
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4279
Re: As a mother protects with her life
"Just as a mother would protect with her lifebinocular wrote:Compare:
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her own son, her only son,
so one should cultivate an unbounded mind
towards all beings,"
(trans. K.R.Norman, The Group of Discourses, 2nd ed, PTS 2001)
- Sat May 11, 2013 2:12 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Trouble with Anapana
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6165
Re: Trouble with Anapana
Problem No.1 So I get really dreamy a lot when I meditate, pretty much using any technique. It's like I'll have 30% of my mind on watching the my breathing, and the extra 70% will slowly drift off and create random images and stories along with the meditation. Sometimes I don't even notice that I'm...