Is nibbana an ultimate reality?
http://www.abhidhamma.com/Abhid-Lectures-1.pdf

It’s perfectly compatible. It’s not just Buddhism though. Also with the other Dharmic Religions such as Jainism. Much harder for the Abrahamic faiths.

It's about anicca, momentariness is just a way of understanding anicca in my opinion. Yes momentariness is all about understanding impermanence, dukkha and the lack of substance. How are indivisible discrete moments not 'substances' or 'atoms' or 'entities'? In CT they are qualities only, or nature...

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:26 pm

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:49 am How do you understand the body being like foam, or a mirage?

Not easily. If I drop a brick on my foot it's going to hurt, right?

Sure.

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...

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...

Goofaholix wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:43 am It's about anicca, momentariness is just a way of understanding anicca in my opinion.

Yes momentariness is all about understanding impermanence, dukkha and the lack of substance.

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...

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...

Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:31 pm 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.

I agree.

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...

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) ...

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...

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....

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...