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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 206
Re: Momentariness
The teaching of anicca is to help people develop dispassion. Momentariness is just a metaphysical dead end. Considering our own and others mortality is possibly the peak teaching of impermanence. Contemplation of death is a real in your face teaching that leads to dispassion. How can the idea of mo...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 206
Momentariness
There is no permanent existence, nor are the constituent elements eternal; the elements of existence [aggregates] arise, and pass away repeatedly. Knowing this peril I am not concerned with existence, being detached from all sensual pleasures. I have gained the annihilation, Of the āsavas. - Uttara...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1968
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1968
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
I mean I have just spent a good few pages disputing with someone who was trying to argue that increasing mindfulness itself could not be usefully employed for insight and right view simply due to the source of that greater mindfulness, and if thats not an inversion of perception I dont know what is...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: SAT stress.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 250
Re: SAT stress.
Hey guys, My SAT test is right around the corner and I am feeling pretty stressed out about it. Do you guys have any dhamma related ways of dealing with this? From a worldly perspective just the cliché of study hard and try your best. In terms of the Dhamma, the unpleasant mental state (domanassa) ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1968
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
While this may work for you this is not really a standard or normative path for a lay follower at all. Why "not really... normative"? The Mahāvacchagottasutta (MN73) speaks of both kāmabhogī householders and brahmacarī householders, and states that in both camps ariyasāvakas can be counte...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1968
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
Unless there is a clear understanding of the danger of sensuality, there is no development of samadhi. There is no arguing AN 9.41, where it is explicitly stated that it takes time to cultivate-the-danger-in-sensuality, and develop-the-benefits-of-renunciation, both of which are required for jhana....
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11091
Re: Identity View
The substance here is kaya. Does it mean that the earth, fire.. are not kaya(aggregates?)? Sorry I don't understand the question? Is fire, cold.. an aggregate? and is the kaya, in that sutta quote, referring to aggregates? i tagged you since you might have a comment. They are aggregates, which have...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11091
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11091
Re: Identity View
There really isn't fire, true, but it sure exist when conditions are present. There is colour and heat but no fire can be found, to give a simplified reply from a CT POV. There is vipassana nana, where you only see the dissolving. Bhanga ñana - Knowledge of the dissolution of formations, only the &...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Looking for the name of following sutta...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 321
Re: Looking for the name of following sutta...
I really like Rhys Davids' explanatory footnote to the correct answer to the question asked by Sāriputta: the idea that "All beings are sustained by food". (Especially as it refers to a Dhp verse that I am currently stuying via Zoom with some friends.) Well, yes, as RD makes clear, there ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11091
Re: Identity View
Ok, chariot is made of different parts in a certain way. Likewise, when aggregates are in a certain way there is a being. Curious then why some here say they can't find the self? you can find the chariot, sit an ride on it.. The point is that there really isn't a chariot. The same for an atta. Its ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11091
Re: Identity View
I'd have to disagree with all of this 28. So in many hundred suttas it is only mentality-materiality that is illustrated, not a being, not a person. Therefore, just as when the component parts such as axles, wheels, frame poles, etc., are arranged in a certain way, there comes to be the mere term o...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Looking for the name of following sutta...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 321
Re: Looking for the name of following sutta...
I really like Rhys Davids' explanatory footnote to the correct answer to the question asked by Sāriputta: the idea that "All beings are sustained by food". (Especially as it refers to a Dhp verse that I am currently stuying via Zoom with some friends.) Well, yes, as RD makes clear, there ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 742
Re: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
You breathe automatically. Just notice it, and continue to notice it. Around the nostrils helps.