I disagree. So does the Buddha. Maybe it flatters certain narcissists' egos to believe they were born with Bodhi, but it's a lie.

This whole "any mindfulness is good mindfulness" presumes that all applications of the very general term "mindfulness"/sati are wholesome. It presumes that there is no wrong samādhi, wrong dhyāna, etc., that is actively bad for you to be engaging in.

Greetings in Dhamma! I am currently engaging with a member of the Waharaka movement in Sri Lanka, which have some quite unorthodox philological takes of certain Pāḷi words with which I do not agree. Among their peculiar interpretations is that aniccaṃ ultimately refers to “non-liking” or “not accor...

Too many Vespas.

Does it not say: 眼等五識身有染有離染。色無色界具六識身。五種色根肉團爲體。眼不見色。耳不聞聲。鼻不嗅香。舌不嘗味。身不覺觸。在等引位有發語言。 The eye and suchlike, the five vijñānakāyas, are [both] defiled and undefiled. In the Rūpadhātu and Ārūpyadhātu, there is endowment with six vijñānakāyas. Five varieties of these are of rūpa, for their basis is the amal...

No barrister would act for me on that basis! Personhood is non-consentual as a matter of law. It doesn't matter if one doesn't consent to being considered or labelled as "a person," they simply "are one," legally-speaking. It's funny to frame it that way: the damnable wicked god...

Yes, yes. The incoherent thesis held by some, namely " I have no self," is occasionally listed among the mistaken views in various exegeses of the Dharma. It's not because the notion of "no self" is somehow secretly and magically a "self view." To suggest so would be li...

Agreed! Nobody has personality. There is no owner. A very good way of putting it. I largely agree with the both of you, but "the person" is a trickier thorn to extract than this. Yes, we can point out that no particular person is the personal "owner" of "personality" i...

I think at some point they all shared one Abhidharma consisting of the core of the Vibhaṅga, Dharmaskandha and this Śāriputrābhidharma. That's possible , but if we're willing to admit this contention, then we should also consider the IMO more likely possibility of there being a now-lost historical ...

Give it to the poor. Do not seek to amass treasures in the worldly realm of the earth, for when the earth shakes your horde, piled high, will topple; when the seas rise, they will seep your treasures away; when the wind raises a furor it will scatter them to the four directions; and when the fires r...

If I’m misunderstanding them when they said nibbana is nothing please do post something of their texts to the contrary, or texts which discuss them. Extinction of rebecoming does not result in nothing Ok, but what did the Sautrantikas say according to your sources? That’s what we are discussing at ...

In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is? Is "Mahāyāna" really more prominent in the West? It has some big media exposure that Theravāda doesn't, but the watered-down generico-spirituo New Age Buddhisms practiced in the West are sometim...

not a state of mind. Your fortune cookie mysticism “There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor non-perception; there, there is neither this world nor the oth...

Can we see the reference in-context?

An AI translation of a section of the Sarvāstivādin Dharmaskandha, which is quite an old Abhidharma text sharing some content in common with the Theravādin Vibhaṅga. Consider: ekāgratā of the mind is a universal caitasika by both Vaibhāṣika and Dārṣṭāntika Sarvāstivādin reckonings. This means that ...