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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
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Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
.. I was trying to say about the ghostly realm which is invisible or naked, first levels in cultivation leading to becoming a ghost. I thought this level can be avoided, but seem not. Other words the sutta what say about sentient beings who are not free from sensual pleasures, is a stage one goes t...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
What is burning here? Is the woman (the object of sight) burning? NO. Is the object reflected within the man's consciousness burning? YES it is burning with lust. Can the fire Dept. help, to put out this fire? NO. Now imagine another man's body was set on fire due to an accident. Body on fire means...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 956
Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
So what is one to focus on if not the colour brown? Surely you wouldn't chant some sort of mantra like earth... earth... earth... but the Visuddhimagga states exactly that. The Tibetans have more interesting mantras. .. 29. The colour should not be reviewed. The characteristic should not be given a...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
A statement Pretty sure you going to say the food is good when it tastes good. Nothing wrong with the statement food is good when it tastes good. It is an indication of how the food was perceived. Levels of ignorance vary. With Love :candle: Getting beaten by the stick pretty sure you will say it h...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
“In the same way, the eye is not the fetter of sights, nor are sights the fetter of the eye. Evameva kho, āvuso, na cakkhu rūpānaṁ saṁyojanaṁ, na rūpā cakkhussa saṁyojanaṁ. The fetter there is the desire and greed that arises from the pair of them. Yañca tattha tadubhayaṁ paṭicca uppajjati chandarā...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
later Buddhist traditions treat Rupa of DO as physical matter. Buddha presented DO as events happening within consciousness. However like-minded people think alike. A conundrum. Was Buddha right? or were the later traditions right? Why does DO need happen within the consciousness. Is your argument ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
The Pali translators manipulated the translation when it comes to contact. In Chinese agama contact is called "Fine" only. in the Pali translation contact is called "gross and fine" it is the solid food what is called gross and fine. What four? Katame cattāro? Solid food, whethe...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: did the buddha teach vipasanna meditation?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 41293
Re: did the buddha teach vipasanna meditation?
I was merely asking how people understood the statement Sariputta through insight into mental qualities one after another. ...... It requires only a brief answer. It does not require sutta quotations, neither a knowledge of Pali. Thank you :candle: You said that the sutta confirms your understandin...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
If you hang onto the belief that in Son's Flesh, Buddha is referring to the the first nutrient as meat and potatoes, this entire thread is a waste of time for you. With Love :candle: It's not a belief, when it is written in the sutta. Whereas your claim is not written in sutta, thus you are hanging...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: did the buddha teach vipasanna meditation?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 41293
Re: did the buddha teach vipasanna meditation?
This further confirms my understanding that To Sariputta Rupa was a mental factor, not a physical factor. i.e. mental rupas generated by a mind engaged in papanca. The comment is followed by Rūpa is not on the list of jhāna factors. And he distinguished the phenomena in the first absorption one by ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
The food Buddha is referring to is consciousness generated through papanca. We feed on our consciousness. Son's Flesh is a reference to that food. But this goes way over the heads of some. The sutta talks about four foods, What four? Katame cattāro? Solid food, whether coarse or fine; contact is th...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
- Replies: 136
- Views: 8939
Re: Ahara Sutta, Son's Flesh
viewtopic.php?p=756085&hilit=poop#p756085 Why waste your time with Poop? In the same thread you also insisted the organ "Eye is mental" Here is some cut and paste material Sorry, but if you read properly then i accuse you of thinking eye is mental. Further posts i thought you were tro...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: AN 4.233 what exactly is the relation between kamma, saṅkhārā?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3772
Re: AN 4.233 what exactly is the relation between kamma, saṅkhārā?
Can anyone figure out why DD thought MN 44 is not Abhidhamma infused. Both MN 43 and MN 44 which are oft repeated in discussions, were fabricated approximately 500 years after the Buddha's passing away. You can find the things said in mn44 in other suttas.. I know DD is not here to reply. I can see...