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- Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:23 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What is the Dark Night of the Soul in Buddhist terms?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15780
Re: What is the Dark Night of the Soul in Buddhist terms?
It's not really an official Buddhist term. Bill Hamilton borrowed it from St. John of the Cross as a collective name for certain knowledge-states ( ñāṇa -s) that are described in the commentarial meditation tradition. In chapter 21 of the Visuddhimagga , Buddhaghoṣa enumerates eight “knowledges”: Kn...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Not attaining stream-entry
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9568
Re: Not attaining stream-entry
the Sarakāni Sutta also confirms that (although the language in it is ambiguous as to the faith-follower), but for some reason it seems "too easy": attaining stream-entry seems to me like a monumental event that is not based on faith or discernment, but on direct knowledge. The Stream-Ent...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:15 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Meaning for these terms ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2664
Re: Meaning for these terms ?
Reminds me of the Sanskrit jñāna-cakṣuṣā, which appears in Bhagavad Gita 13:35.Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: Cakkhu (lit. eye), here, means vision, clear seeing, or intuitive insight. Ñāṇa means knowledge.
- Wed Jun 07, 2017 3:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: I believe I have achieved stream-entry.
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18162
Re: I believe I have achieved stream-entry.
Which definition of stream-entry are you using?
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 4:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Renunciation of the Sense Pleasures and more?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2854
Re: Renunciation of the Sense Pleasures and more?
I think what you're looking for is the Mahasatipatthana Sutta, especially the section on Cittanupassana. Does that answer your question?Namkha wrote:what about renunciation of the negative mind states? Self doubt, anger, hatred, racism, etc.? Is there another way that the Buddha taught to let go of these?
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:45 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Shiva. Simply conciousness
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2334
Re: Shiva. Simply conciousness
My question is, where does thispie with The Buddhas teachings? To my mind, there are obvious connections between Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen: 1. Time period. If we rely on verifiable sources (rather than the traditions' claims about themselves), both Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen arose in the clo...
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:14 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: first english translation of the canon pali?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2556
Re: first english translation of the canon pali?
Around what year the Canon Pali became available in english? Do you mean when was the complete Pali canon first available in English? Or when was any part of it first available in English? Max Müller published an English translation of the Dhammapada in 1870 in the volume Buddhaghosha's Parables (L...
- Sun May 21, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Buddho Mantra
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9522
Re: Buddho Mantra
Lunagphor Viriyang Sirintharo runs a six-month course on buddho meditation: http://www.willpowerinstitute.com/courses/
- Thu May 04, 2017 3:38 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Members Bios - please contribute yours
- Replies: 209
- Views: 279415
Re: Members Bios - please contribute yours
I think it can be healthy to have a little thread where people can contribute a few lines about themselves. Some of us did that in the Intro already but others may feel like doing more after having gotten involved in the forum and gotten to know the folk here a bit better. Anyhow here goes one of m...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:36 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Reading Recommendations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3307
Re: Reading Recommendations
For many years, Richard H. Robinson's Buddhist Religions has been a standard college-level survey of the development of Buddhism.maranadhammomhi wrote:historical overviews, or anything at all that can expand my knowledge of the early buddhist dhamma beyond the range of what is offered by theravāda
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10289
Re: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
The dialects are very close. But they are of course influenced by the standard versions of Norwegian and Swedish. That makes sense. There is archeological and linguistic evidence for the settlement of these areas by Indo-European tribes around 2,500 B.C.: "Between 3000 and 2500 BC new settlers...
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:01 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10289
Re: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
That actually supports the case that Pāli, although it is an artificial/composite dialect, is based on the westerly dialects of MIA.Dmytro wrote:the western dialect of the Girnār rock edicts, and which among literary languages has the most in common with Pāli
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:01 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Feeling tone - how do you like to interpret "worldly" and "unworldly"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4777
Re: Feeling tone - how do you like to interpret "worldly" and "unworldly"?
I think we are all pretty much in agreement here. Page 156 (page 170 of the PDF file) gives this translation from the sutta: When feeling a worldly pleasant feeling, he knows “I feel a worldly pleasant feeling”; when feeling an unworldly pleasant feeling, he knows “I feel an unworldly pleasant feeli...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:45 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Feeling tone - how do you like to interpret "worldly" and "unworldly"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4777
Re: Feeling tone - how do you like to interpret "worldly" and "unworldly"?
sāmisa = worldly, fleshly, related to the material
nirāmisa = unworldly, spiritual, related to the non-material
nirāmisa = unworldly, spiritual, related to the non-material
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:29 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10289
Re: The Buddha spoke pali by Stefan Karpik
This is what Oskar von Hinüber says: The Theravādins assume as a matter of course that their canon has come down in the language used by the Buddha, which they consequently call Māgadhī as well as Pāli. However, once the linguistic study of Pāli began in Europe by the end of the 19th century, it soo...