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- Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What precisely is the problem with the so-called "three lives" model?
- Replies: 300
- Views: 9958
Re: What precisely is the problem with the so-called "three lives" model?
What precisely is the problem with the so-called "three lives" model? Let's try to state the same question in different terms, perhaps in this way things become more clear. What precisely is the problem to "understand" the second noble truth as "three lives" model? “A...
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 12:00 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
The only strong evidence which approaches certainty in dialectic about evolution is that there is tendency to take what is uncertain for being certain, in other words to take one's own faith as verifable truth. Ven Nanamoli Thera from the essay Consciousness and Being: How many more people in histor...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:29 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
Nanamoli Thera: I met a daddy-long-legs today, but not quite the kind one is used to. Though its body and wings were the ordinary size and shape, its legs were a full 3” long, thin as 100% cotton, with a baroque curve, and clothed in black-and-white-banded football stockings. It was like one of tho...
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:04 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
Self-deception is common factor in human experience, here example from the field of evolutionary biology. Quote nicely illustrate psychological observation that where there is emotional involvement in holding certain views illusions quickly transforms themselves into certitude. If the subject matter...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
Nanamoli Thera: I met a daddy-long-legs today, but not quite the kind one is used to. Though its body and wings were the ordinary size and shape, its legs were a full 3” long, thin as 100% cotton, with a baroque curve, and clothed in black-and-white-banded football stockings. It was like one of thos...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 2:51 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "Clearing the Path Continues": Ven. Anālayo's critique of Ven. Ñāṇavīra's Notes
- Replies: 168
- Views: 6173
Re: "Clearing the Path Continues": Ven. Anālayo's critique of Ven. Ñāṇavīra's Notes
In brief, if the Buddha never talked about it, if he intentionally avoided it, if he was unfamiliar with the idea as far as all modern scholarship is concerned, if it only surfaced later and actually ended up causing all kinds of problems that then had to be reconciled (such as that of the Bhavanga...
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Sensory experience in meditative attainments
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1314
Sensory experience in meditative attainments
Since someone told me that references regarding sensory experience in meditation which I gave him were useful, perhaps they could be useful for others. Even if such data is already available here in certain topic, it doesn't matter since perhaps someone has some suggestions how to resolve an ambigui...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
Evolutionary thinking is like reverse alchemy: It turns gold into lead. And this process is evident in religion, education, and science itself. ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE THE ICONS OF EVOLUTION ARE NOT TEXTBOOK MISTAKES. THEY are used to promote a grand materialistic story even after scientists have shown t...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2081
Re: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
«It seems they read the Kalama Sutta that way -- "Do your own thing, and that will be enough".»
Kind of instruction: "don't obey any instructions", and they do obey it.
Kind of instruction: "don't obey any instructions", and they do obey it.
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:19 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
SURVIVAL OF THE FAKEST or Zombi Science Description In 2000, biologist Jonathan Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution, a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence—icons of evolution like Ernst Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings and peppe...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:11 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
We are quite clearly apes rather than fallen divine creatures. Friend, I have no doubt that your value judgement expressed here is based on introspection, after all who should know more about your state than you. 😊 But why are you using the plural "we"? Are you one of these rare cases of ...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:49 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Darwinism and the Dhamma
- Replies: 274
- Views: 21362
Re: Darwinism and the Dhamma
We are quite clearly apes rather than fallen divine creatures. Friend, I have no doubt that your value judgement expressed here is based on introspection, after all who should know more about your state than you. 😊 But why are you using the plural "we"? Are you one of these rare cases of ...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2081
Re: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
It is still by one's effort that one attains noble status. One's own effort is undoubtedly neccesry to understand Dhamma, but it is insufficient since without information from outside given by one who already is ariya, there is no knowledge towards what aim actually such effort should be directed. ...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The unanswerable questions
- Replies: 105
- Views: 3502
Re: The unanswerable questions
I believe once we understand the Paticcasamuppada, we wouldn't ask such questions. Do you believe the opposite to be true? does contemplating such questions bring the practitioner closer to understand Paticcasamuppada? No. for wise people, friends, are inquisitive... Ven Sariputta SN 22 : 2 Unanswe...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:56 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2081
Re: Was the New Testament copied from Buddhist scriptures?
This is why, in Buddhism there are mundane and supramundane knowledge. Those who attain supramundane knowledge are few. The notion of "little dust in their eyes" explains very little as to what they have in common. It is another form of aristocracy nonetheless. It is still by one's effort...