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by robertk
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Yellow Page Teachings - Ajahn Jayasāro
Replies: 295
Views: 32522

Re: Yellow Page Teachings - Ajahn Jayasāro

sequeller wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:42 pm . Only when attachment to the idea of body and mind as being self dissolves is causality revealed.
:sage:
by robertk
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 950

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

And that somehow a few century after Buddha, monks and nuns misunderstood the Buddha, going bat crazy, and started to stare at disk made of earth, fire, or bowl water, etc. These monks are so crazy that they conjure it all up and wrote it down in Abhidhamma, and all the *magga: Patisambhidhamagga, ...
by robertk
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Dhp. 97
Replies: 9
Views: 351

Re: Dhp. 97

This is from Carter and Palihawadana's excellent translation of the Commentary.
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by robertk
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: BMC is Unorthodox
Replies: 5
Views: 502

Re: BMC is Unorthodox

Very interesting :anjali:
Any particularly glaring errors that could be clarified?
by robertk
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
Replies: 85
Views: 6306

Re: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity

There are suttas where people meet the Buddha and don't recognise him, even those who knew of the Dhamma and followed it. If he was truly of remarkable appearance, word of that would've surely spread and that would not have happened. See, for example https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.1...
by robertk
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
Replies: 19
Views: 680

Re: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?

https://www.buddhanet.net/bud_lt10.htm Misconceptions There are some who take delight in making the Buddha a non-human. They quote a passage from the Anguttara Nikâya (II, 37), mistranslate it, and misunderstand it. The story goes thus: Once the Buddha was seated under a tree in the meditation postu...
by robertk
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:39 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
Replies: 12
Views: 260

Re: The relationship between kamma and sankharas

befriend wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:31 am is kamma vipaka always about your next life?
Threefold, however, is the fruit of karma: ripening during the life-time (dittha-dhamma-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in the next birth (upapajja-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in later births (aparápariya-vedaníya kamma)
…" (A.VI, 63
).
by robertk
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:10 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: An Anapanasati Question
Replies: 30
Views: 1371

Re: An Anapanasati Question

... The Devas have to take on a gross form in order to interact with the human world, so how is the physical gross body meant? I never unblocked you from my ignore list, just on rare occasion selectively opening one of your posts if the topic caught my eye. I had not engaged in conversation with yo...
by robertk
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Jhana and the factors of awakening
Replies: 46
Views: 1456

Re: Jhana and the factors of awakening

Different strokes for different folks. Jhana was a word used for various attainments... the Buddha redefined it by outlining how his jhana is attained. Alternatively, it's an outlier. I can only think of one other Instance in the suttas that tangentially suggests that the jhanas were widely practic...
by robertk
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:56 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Nibbana in the Visuddhimagga
Replies: 10
Views: 484

Re: Nibbana in the Visuddhimagga

Ceisiwr wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:02 pm Ven. Dhammapala also adds in his commentaries that Nibbana is filled with light.
I wonder why he would think that: nibbana is void of mentality and materiality.
Do you have the full context of where he claims this.
by robertk
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Path of "Right Endurance" of Ven. Nyanamoli (from Hillside Hermitage) incompatible with the Noble Eightfold Path
Replies: 102
Views: 6765

Re: Path of "Right Endurance" of Ven. Nyanamoli (from Hillside Hermitage) incompatible with the Noble Eightfold Path

Agreed. The Buddha calls one who endures a sensual thought "lazy" and thoroughly praises those who immediately destroy them. The teaching in question is thus encouraging laziness. Therefore it is not Dhamma. Perhaps the venerable was approaching it from this aspect: https://www.accesstoin...
by robertk
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:30 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: NO self
Replies: 141
Views: 33836

Re: NO self

Sabbe_Dhamma_Anatta wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:40 am
robertk wrote: Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:21 am In fact the Buddha is the teacher of Anatta - no self.
This is the heart of Dhamma, it is the essence.
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I edited your post to make the section I quoted from Dhammanando clear.
by robertk
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:40 am
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
Replies: 8
Views: 716

Re: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development

So if, for instance, I see that craving is arising from the sense door of the ear, would it not be wise of me to shift it towards a nuetral sensation that is not easily clung to like the taste of my mouth? This seems in line with training the sense door to avoid craving. The craving has already ari...
by robertk
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:13 am
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: Paccaya and Dependant Origination
Replies: 18
Views: 672

Re: Paccaya and Dependant Origination

I am just happy to know that it is there for the time being. For me, it is enough to know that everything is dependently originated. :D :sage: And this is key. Then we can read all the Tipitaka without introducing a self. No one who is reading or contemplating but there are processes occuring, seei...
by robertk
Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Abhidhamma
Topic: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development
Replies: 8
Views: 716

Re: Mind/Sense Door Averting Development

Being that I am not an Arahant, wouldn't it be wise to develop and prolong the Kiriya that I do have to decrease kamma? It seems like proper training of mind and sense door averting consciousness would be a good use of time. Thoughts? The panca-dvaravajjana-citta (sense door adverting consciousness...