Dhamma Wheel

Since your post clearly lays nāgārjuna's writing alongside the dhamma, I don't think it necessarily belongs in "Connections...". Just because he has been labeled a mahāyāna thinker doesn't mean that he is.

With an understanding of saṅkhārā (AKA fabrications, formations, or preparations), it is easier to practice compassion to a meaningful degree. Analysis of dependent co-arising: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.002.than.html Screen Shot 2018-12-09 at 17.09.09.png the shorter set ...

This is perhaps why we should not insist that 1) the buddha didn't teach meditation, nor 2) that there being a variety of techniques and teachers is a good thing. Vipassanā itself is not meditation, meditation is jhāna. Focusing on the abdomen is not in any of the suttas that are meditation manuals ...

yes, take a look https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
ajahn chah also spoke along these lines, comparing the desire to practice to the shell of a coconut, which you need in order to enjoy the fruit

I say take a good look through Digha Nikaya 2 and see if your livelihood is any of the wrong livelihoods listed. I don't know the answer to your question (only you know, I think), but you can use that sutta as your reference.

Yes, it generates pamāda, which is carelessness. If it's delighted in, a cycle of addiction comes into play. Renouncing it is the only way to ensure that craving for sounds will cease. Nibbāna is the goal of buddhism and it is the destruction of craving. For a person to indulge in sensual pleasures ...

A mind imbued with hate does more harm than a lice epidemic; mental acts have more weight to them in the suttas.

offerings to the dead https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.177.than.html If the child is in the ghost realm currently he or she can receive an offering. If not, you still don't go without reward for making an offering. The child did get to live a short life span, in relative comfort...

OK, I read in the majjhima nikāya that sensual pleasures cause sensual pleasures. In grasping at pleasant feeling, the untrained worldly person seeks delight in pleasant feeling and, as a result, suffers painful feeling. In feeling painful feeling, he chases again pleasant feeling. That's what is si...

Why would you be responsible for what the lice do. Intention is kamma, not harming the lice is superior to destroying them, even if some of the lice are diseased and others contract them from you. Another recurring argument is that if you allow something to happen, you are responsible; however, if i...

The precepts aren't good only some of the time, they are good all of the time, and if they were not they would have been presented conditionally, subject to fluctuation. That's one of the recurring arguments in many circles, even by well-known and well learned monks.

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Coming down from my dwelling place, I entered the city for alms, stood courteously next to a leper eating his meal. He, with his rotting hand, tossed me a morsel of food, and as the morsel was dropping, a finger fell off right there. Sitting next to a wall, I ate that morsel of food, and neither wh...

A question like this I think is unnecessary. If your motivation is compassionate, you'll figure it out.

https://suttacentral.net/sn45.8/en/bodhi Screen Shot 2018-11-26 at 00.36.09.png https://suttacentral.net/sn45.8/en/sujato Screen Shot 2018-11-26 at 00.38.39.png "Now I will tell you the layman's duty. Following it a lay-disciple would be virtuous; for it is not possible for one occupied with the hou...