Dhamma Wheel

Hello all, I'm a beginner and I'm learning about Buddhism. Welcome :hello: "Newbee" is an awesome and honest name because it means you won't create the suffering of believing you are an expert. I read some of the forum posts and frankly speaking I feel intimidated by the depth of the discussions an...

What exactly is Ekagata. (One pointedness)? MN 79 has the term eka nta-sukhassa; which may possibly be relevant; because it highlights how in jhana the mind has only one exclusive object, namely, happiness. “And which, revered sir, is this reasoned course for realising a world that is exclusively h...

Seriously though, I can't see any practical difference between the view of "no-self" and the view of "everything is not-self". The sutta appears quite clear about Vacchagotta's wrong view. Vacchagotta might have taken on blind faith he was not a self in the present but would have held he was a self...

When there is craving for feeling, there can be desire for fabrication of; the Eye, Intellect, Body, Ear, Nose, Tongue. What is fabricated is intended.... which are intended as a requisite condition for arising of contact at the sense bases, which is a requisite condition feeling Excellent answer R...

Its akin to the perception that the head directs the body, not the opposite. This is not correct if the teaching is seen in a practical light, where body and mind exert equal influence, but in different ways. Looking for a theoretical position in the suttas is not the right approach, as the overall...

The Buddha taught about Kamma, which is the law of volitional actions. Yes, it appears this way. AN 6.63 says: Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect. :candle: From a first person point of view, volitional actions appears to be the commander i...

you admitted that the in-breaths and out-breaths would interrupt a concentrated mind. I did not. I did not say in-breaths and out-breaths would interrupt a concentrated mind. I said awareness of in-breaths and out-breaths cannot include ekaggata. I imagine there are degrees of concentration and tha...

What is womb-born generation ? There are these beings born by breaking out from the caul; this is called womb-born generation. What is spontaneous generation ? There are gods and denizens of hell and certain human beings and some beings in the lower worlds; this is called spontaneous generation. In...

“When my concentrated mind was thus purified, bright, unblemished, rid of imperfection, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability, I directed it to knowledge of the recollection of past lives. I recollected my manifold past lives, that is, one birth, two births, three births, four...

The breath nimitta is the object of jhana, not the breath itself. Good luck otherwise. You are your own critic. Sir. The Lord Buddha taught to refrain from slander. I did not ever write, let alone infer, the above. I wrote: Prior to jhana , when the mind knows every coming & going of every in-breat...

If you've had to deal with a lot of racism in your life, you naturally don’t feel comfortable being the only “minority” in certain spaces. Sure. I probably can't even empathize with your life history of racism. But the "certain space" in this situation is Buddhism. It is an expression of faith a wh...

Atthi : Exist. Natthi [ na + atthi ]: Non-exist, no, not, not present. Attā : Self, soul (Sanskrit: Ātman ) Hence, the SN 44.10 ’s two questions by the wanderer Vacchagotta ( Pāli ): Q1) “ Atth attā ? ” [Atthi + attā ]: Exist + self ? Q2) “ Natth attā ? ” [Natthi + attā ]: Non-exist + self ? It app...

SarathW wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:38 am

Well, I respect your opinion if that all you can learn from that.

Sorry Master. I was searching for an end to suffering but possibly I am on the wrong forum. My humble apologies.

SarathW wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 9:37 am

This is an indirect question about Buddha's teaching.

OK. Such as this thread I started: viewtopic.php?t=32844

Actually, I raised the same question I found the answer. "This great earth, Ananda, is established upon liquid, the liquid upon the atmosphere, and the atmosphere upon space. And when, Ananda, mighty atmospheric disturbances take place, the liquid is agitated. And with the agitation of the liquid, ...