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by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Patisambhidamagga specifically anapanasati
Replies: 3
Views: 92

Re: Patisambhidamagga specifically anapanasati

Ven. Bodhi is working on a translation of it and its commentary, apparently to be released this year.
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
Replies: 33
Views: 753

Re: Two Types of Jhāna

This is my point of view, I hope it can be helpful. ... It's either Right jhana or wrong. The Buddha's jhana is not an isolated activity. It's the culmination of seven other path factors; that's why we have the Eightfold Path. The idea that one could have wrong jhana as the eighth path factor is ju...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 86
Views: 5712

Re: Identity View

sphairos wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:20 pm
I am just following the logic of your thesis and drawing conclusions from it.

If you are ready to take it seriously, you would be ready to agree that it would be stupid for the Buddha to say "there is no self", "self doesn't exist" (or the opposite).
Why do you say that?
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great rebirth debate
Replies: 7548
Views: 1331486

Re: the great rebirth debate

Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awareness. Of course they don’t, because Arahants don’t ultimately exist. And you know that how? From the suttas and tradition.
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)
Replies: 17
Views: 2863

Re: Venerable Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda (K.N.S.S.B.)

Dear Dhamma Friends It is indeed very well to remember Venerable Katukurnda Nanananda Thero. Through his series of books on Nivena Nevema and other volumes, the light of Dhamma shown to us. An this is stepping stone for further Development of Mind.It is through Venerable Dhamma sermons that Aloko U...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 86
Views: 5712

Re: Identity View

Mano is inconstant, alterable, subject to change. Dhammā are inconstant, alterable, subject to change. That which is inconstant is dukkha. The Buddha taught that Nibbāna is deathless, unchanging, the end of dukkha, the foremost bliss. It’s still known via the mind though isn’t it. Ven. Sāriputta ex...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:15 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great rebirth debate
Replies: 7548
Views: 1331486

Re: the great rebirth debate

Nibbana is the cessation of craving, aversion and ignorance, not the end of existence. It’s also the cessation of existence. Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awarenes...
by Ceisiwr
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 86
Views: 5712

Re: Identity View

Yes and the arahant dwells with an awareness dissociated, disjoined and freed from all five aggregates. An awareness that's dissociated, freed and released from death, from the world, from the All. Really? Where does it say that in the suttas? “Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bā...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
Replies: 7
Views: 194

Popularity of Mahāyāna

In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
Replies: 7
Views: 196

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Immersed in Freedom
Replies: 4
Views: 152

Re: Immersed in Freedom

Pondera wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:39 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:30 pm
Pondera wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:03 am
ekaggata
Ekaggatā is used to preserve the meaning of the more obscure ekodi: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/ek ... n-web/3823
Interesting read. Thanks, C.
You're welcome.
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:55 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
Replies: 5
Views: 183

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"...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 86
Views: 5712

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 26
Views: 821

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...
by Ceisiwr
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: On Ekaṁsikā and Anekaṁsikā
Replies: 1
Views: 44

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...