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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
Your argument on this point is not aligned with the suttas. Deeper perception can indeed lead to greater insight. Do you know of monastics who do maranasati sitting next to corpses for days on end? What do you think they are doing other than trying to gain insight through cultivating a deeper perce...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Help finding a sutta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 109
Re: Help finding a sutta
It’s AN 6.63: “They are not sensual pleasures, the pretty things in the world: a person’s sensual pleasure is lustful intention; the pretty things remain just as they are in the world, but the wise remove the desire for them.” -Ven. Bodhi “Greedy intention is a person’s sensual pleasure. The world’s...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 26
- Views: 690
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
How do you have any proof that there are even any such people with these abilities? I’m not talking about whether or not it is possible, but what makes you so sure that anyone at all has gained them here and now?
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 26
- Views: 690
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
Don't confuse them with noble people or holy people. To attain supernatural power you only need to develop your concentration. It would be correct to say that powers don’t require insight (nor the right view), but samadhi is impossible without virtue and sense restraint, which is why those powers w...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
Whats 'a pipe dream'? Are you claiming the human perceptual apparatus sees things exactly 'as they are?'. A hawk has vision hundreds of times better than ours. If something grants one access to normally hidden perceptions of reality, it could easily be useful. I have shared certain personal experie...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Who are the Suttavadins? The dark truth behind Delson Armstrong, Bhante Vimalaramsi, and TWIM
- Replies: 536
- Views: 24093
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Who are the Suttavadins? The dark truth behind Delson Armstrong, Bhante Vimalaramsi, and TWIM
- Replies: 536
- Views: 24093
Re: Who are the Suttavadins? The dark truth behind Delson Armstrong, Bhante Vimalaramsi, and TWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjDN0c6l-8&ab_channel=BeingUntangled Hi phoi2Yee, At around 4:50 you state that David Johnson "will soon find himself reborn in hell" There’s not an easier way to question him directly than to repeatedly look for him here? Try the YouTube comments
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 26
- Views: 690
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
Don't confuse them with noble people or holy people. To attain supernatural power you only need to develop your concentration. It would be correct to say that powers don’t require insight (nor the right view), but samadhi is impossible without virtue and sense restraint, which is why those powers w...
Re: Eclipse.
The earth is flat, bruh. The eclipse totally means something, because, like, the secret of life is definitely external to one’s own view, maaaaan.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 26
- Views: 690
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
This is certainly not a case of misuse, but one where it seems the monk knew there would be the consequence of having to leave and not return: … Now at that time Venerable Mahaka was the most junior mendicant in that Saṅgha. Then Venerable Mahaka said to the senior venerable, “Wouldn’t it be nice, H...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
I've used psychedelics. For background , which ones, roughly how many times and in what contexts? Mushrooms and lsd in calm and/or outdoor environments. I really hope this isn’t the point where you tell me all the specific conditions necessary for usage to be useful. If that were the case, it is ev...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
Not always. There some permanant processing changes in the way the mind and brain operate with their use, corrolated with the now better understood neuroplastic connectivity changes. So its doesn't just stop with the memory of the experience. Secondly, insights are often associated with shifts in p...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
I can’t believe you are still advocating for the practical use of psychedelics in Dhamma practice. Its not just me, there are plenty who do and there is very solid research to support this position now. For practitioners who are relying on development and direct personal experience, what “plenty” d...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
I can’t believe you are still advocating for the practical use of psychedelics in Dhamma practice. If you’re relying on a purely sensual experience to motivate you to practice, then your focus is fixed in the absolute wrong direction of renunciation. In essence, the assumption here is that an overwh...