All we can know is our experience within the 6 sense (Sabba Sutta). Outside of that, nothing can be said. Not even a Buddha goes into it, because its outside of the range. The dhammas can't be said to arise from or return to anything. What is the cause of their arising? Other dhammas. By focusing i...

Greetings Sam, The path of sanctification is one that cannot be achieved in this lifetime, because glorification (which you might think of as full sanctification) cannot be achieved until the "old man" born of Adam is left behind. Therefore there is no finality on Earth as it pertains to ...

Greetings Sam, Ok, thanks. Now I understand the question. If one accepts the Bible as being the Word of God, then it logically follows that one accepts what it says about heaven too. That's one pathway, and doubtless there's more, but I think it's fair to say that if someone is going out of their w...

Greetings Sam, Is there a practice/method to realize the Christian God within Christianity ? Depends what you mean by "realise". Can you please clarify? Thanks. Metta, Paul. :) To know the existence of God beyond all doubt. Gain assurances of heaven beyond all doubt. Sort of a spiritual l...

An interesting collection of Sutta extracts that affirms that the Buddha did not know God. Arguably from the point of view of the Dhamma, this is for the best, because had he known God, he would have seen "sin" as the fundamental problem instead of "dukkha", and this would have ...

A good example is Ratnakīrti’s Kṣaṇabhaṅgasiddhi (Proof of Momentariness by Positive Correlation) where his interlocutor is from the Ñyāya school. Ñyāya argues that we directly perceive things, like a pot, and this pot undergoes changes as it persists through time. Ratnakīrti, a Yogācārin, argues t...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:00 pm Just pointing out that your arguments are what Nyāya and others use, rather than Buddhists. For example, that a pot exists through time and undergoes change is one used to argue for a truly existing atta.

Hello Ceisiwr,

I would like to read up on this. Any recommendations ?

Thanks.

Greetings, I am thankful for the roof over my head, the people I share my life with, democracy, law and order, modern medicine...But these too are, papanca. Except they're not, because they would be there with or without SamD, let alone the existentialist papanca of SamD. All the best. Metta, Paul....

Greetings Sam, It is an assumption formulated, without simply stopping within the confines of experience. True, but you say that as if that's a good thing, rather than an autistic thing. Instead of being terrified by the existence of something other then experience, people just need to know what is...

Greetings, Anyway, there is no tangible without a toucher. Utterly wrong. Do you think your house isn't a tangible thing until you come along and touch it? If so, you've fallen down the same autistic (and I mean this in the sense of "Greek autos ‘self’ + the adjectival suffix - istic ) rabbit ...

Greetings, It’s metaphysical in so far of it being epistemological. It’s not metaphysical in terms of positing an ontology, as it’s a negation of ontological claims. :goodpost: Except it's not a "negation of ontological claims" - rather, it's the creation of one. Metta, Paul. :) It doesn'...

Ceisiwr wrote:It’s metaphysical in so far of it being epistemological. It’s not metaphysical in terms of positing an ontology, as it’s a negation of ontological claims.

What is Good and Beneficial.

Did Bhante Aggacitta have any comments about U Pandita, and how his approach may have differed? I understand that Bhante was a translator for U Pandita for a time. Although BA was ordained by MS, he practised under SUP before becoming his translator. He didn't say about any difference in teachings ...