That sounds like something Deepak Chopra would say. <shudder>
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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternity
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1193
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 423
Re: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
The nature of the mind is impermanence, unsatisfactory and not self. If you don't discern this nature of the mind then that is ignorance. If you discern it's nature then the mind is just part of the aggregates, then there is no longer any binding to this mind, this is the unbinding and freedom of n...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 88
- Views: 1878
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternity
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1193
Re: Eternity
Buddha clearly didn't teach that we have an eternal soul. Nor did he say there is no soul Nor did he say that there were no unicorns, but we don't on that account allow them to play any part in practice, do we? Well, he didn't say "no unicorns", but he did say "sabbe dhamma anatta&qu...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternity
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1193
Re: Eternity
I wouldn't try to mix concepts from different religious traditions, it's a futile task. I agree, it's futile, and it often looks like lazy perennialism, or new-age mix and match. <shudder> And understanding the differences between traditions is actually a good way of understanding what the individu...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternity
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1193
Re: Eternity
People think they are the same person they were (twenty years ago)… They do not account for the fact they’re someone else (Well they sort of do) Yes, and another distinction is that a soul is created at conception, and so - although it may be considered to be immortal, because it can't cease to exi...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891
Re: Identity View
There is no CT that comes or has come to a conclusion. It’s only people / beings that can come to a conclusion. And there is a difference between presenting what others did say or did conclude and what one self understood and can thereby contribute. The focus here is on understanding the Theravada ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: visible spirit body
- Replies: 6
- Views: 126
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891
Re: Identity View
Yes, it's a radical teaching, and challenging for many.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891
Re: Identity View
There is no CT that comes or has come to a conclusion. It’s only people / beings that can come to a conclusion. And there is a difference between presenting what others did say or did conclude and what one self understood and can thereby contribute. The focus here is on understanding the Theravada ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:39 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891
Re: Identity View
No I'm saying that terminology is all a matter of convention, but that terms refer to events or things that can be agreed on by reasonable people as existing or happening. Your own comparison of sunrise is a case in point. Since it's pointless talking with someone uninterested in reason when it con...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891
Re: Identity View
There is a self - there is no self - extreme philosophical standpoints / the two naturally occurring extreme concepts of understanding existence (dependent origination of the skandhas) which one can avoid. The skandhas arise in dependence upon conditions, but the self is only a view. "Sabbe dh...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 423
Re: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
Sounds like Buddha-nature Yes, but what about this, from AN 1.49: "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that — for the well-instructed disciple of...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternity
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1193
Re: Eternity
And can you please tell whether koshas(sheaths) and khandas(aggregates) are one and the same? so i could then say whether it also apply to khadnas being the self according to the hinduism. In the Upanishads the koshas "enclose" the Atman. The koshas are not-Self. In the suttas the khandas...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 301
- Views: 9891