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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 4
- Views: 75
Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
- Replies: 4
- Views: 92
Re: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
Thank you both for your guidance. Any books (psychology, Buddhist practise/wisdom, anything!) that would be brilliant. I also struggle with anxiety so all guidance gratefully received. And thanks again. Always a good place to start: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachi...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Immersed in Freedom
- Replies: 4
- Views: 113
Re: Immersed in Freedom
You're welcome.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
- Replies: 4
- Views: 77
Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
In this commentary on the Visuddhimagga, regarding the section which discusses nibbāna, Ven. Dhammapāla writes this yadi nibbānaṃ nāma sabhāvadhammo atthi sattasantānapariyāpanno ca, atha kasmā catumahāpathe sabhā viya sabbasādhāraṇā na labbhatīti āha "maggasamaṅginā pattabbato asādhāraṇa"...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5203
Re: Identity View
Why would he speak so often about a self conventionally without ever telling anyone that this was the case? What's the difference between a conventional truth that isn't ultimately true and a lie? Where does the Buddha say he would have said there is no self if it wouldn't confuse V? In DN9, when t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
- Replies: 26
- Views: 783
Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
hi. on this link Pubbaseliya, Theravada of the Third Council Is there any article that summarizes the opinions of each school? I can't find it well :cry: If you want to know more about the doctrines of the early schools then I recommend “The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle” André Bareau. I po...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24
On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
There is an interesting discussion that happens in DN 9 which I've never noticed before. In that sutta the Buddha is asked the following questions: Is the cosmos is eternal? Is the cosmos not eternal? he cosmos is finite’ The cosmos is infinite The soul (jīvaṁ) is the same thing as the body The soul...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 717
Re: Kamma and intention
This is a really great illustration of why the Buddha didn't teach that there is no self. And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it. If all dhammas are empty of a self, then a self doesn’t exist. If everything is empty of “blue” then there is no ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5203
Re: Identity View
From the point of view of Classical Theravada the Buddha is speaking conventionally here. On the direct question of self, no-self is annihiltionism if it’s viewed in the sense of an existing Being being destroyed. The Buddha is quite clear that if Vacchagotta hadn’t been liable to such confusion, h...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62166
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
Nor did he teach that there is no self. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.nymo.html That says the aggregates aren't self. It doesn't say there's no self. Here he shows that teaching "there is no self" is an unbeneficial and confusing teaching that sides with the ex...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 717
Re: Kamma and intention
So Santa Claus exists, because there is an idea of Santa Claus? I wanted to respond to blue … Referring to the observation of a nicely dressed old man during Christmas Time one maybe wants to state: Santa Claus does not exist. I want to recommend: say that only to kids above 6 or so. Could end in t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 717
Re: Kamma and intention
You can directly observe anatta of a certain feeling or push to that observation. Impermanence (anicca) of a certain feeling and consciousness is also (‚directly’) observable. ‚There is no self‘ is a thought. That thought is also observable. And also that this thought is not self. What you directly...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 717
Re: Kamma and intention
And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it. Mahāyāna is a diverse tradition. Some strands of Mahāyāna teach there is a true self. I haven’t read it but I believe the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra teaches the highest teaching of the Buddha was tha...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 31
- Views: 717
Re: Kamma and intention
You can directly observe anatta of a certain feeling or push to that observation. Impermanence (anicca) of a certain feeling and consciousness is also (‚directly’) observable. ‚There is no self‘ is a thought. That thought is also observable. And also that this thought is not self. What you directly...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Appicchatā ca mettā ca karuṇā ca. ete santimagga
- Replies: 12
- Views: 960
Re: Appicchatā ca mettā ca karuṇā ca. ete santimagga
Appicchatā ca mettā ca karuṇā ca. ete santimagga "Contentment, loving-kindness and compassion. These are the path to peace" Is my grammar correct? Since the nouns in the first clause are feminine, the demonstrative should be etā . And in the second clause I think you'd be better served by...