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- Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Paṭiccasamuppāda and Space
- Replies: 58
- Views: 6232
Re: Paṭiccasamuppāda and Space
Space is a “thing” which can be twisted and distorted due to mass, hence gravity and black holes. “I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own mak...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:22 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: How to reach the 1st Jhana?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 35810
Re: How to reach the 1st Jhana?
By understanding it :buddha2: Discerning the wholesome (non-sensuality) from unwholesome (sensuality). When it is actually discerned, not just recalled, kept in mind, repeated, studied, drilled, or memorized. But actually discerned as such. How do you know if you do? Because when you discern it as s...
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:54 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3514
Re: Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
Greetings, Interesting! Not that I care “who” these senior western monks are nor does it really matter, but i think it’s fair and appropriate to ask “why”, yes? As for the "why", I think SDC's response immediately above your own, is a brilliant explanation. There's a tendency when one's a...
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3514
Re: Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
Not Thanissaro, but I have heard other senior Western monks refer to him as not neccesarily wise... Interesting! Not that I care “who” these senior western monks are nor does it really matter, but i think it’s fair and appropriate to ask “why”, yes? Btw, your quote I’m pretty sure is a Thanisarro t...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are we basically waiting for death?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3628
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:32 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Unrequited love
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3955
Re: Unrequited love
Metta should be understood as merely absence of ill-will, or perhaps at the very least intention toward absence of ill-will in regards to the phenomena presently pertained.
Unrequited love definitely qualifies as ignorance and dukkha (which technically is the same as 'ignorance of dukkha').
Unrequited love definitely qualifies as ignorance and dukkha (which technically is the same as 'ignorance of dukkha').
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are we basically waiting for death?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3628
Re: Are we basically waiting for death?
Only the arahant is, such is their peace (but mind you, to them it is not "their" death); as for the rest of us (from non-returner down through puthujjana) our intentionality (waiting, expecting, looking for, etc..) is governed by determinations (ignorance and craving).
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:46 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Who are your favourite non-Buddhist philosophers?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11531
Re: Who are your favourite non-Buddhist philosophers?
I'll have to check that one out! I've read Ghost in the Machine which was my introduction to him, I loved it, and I also have read parts of 'The Yogi and the Commissar'.
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Who are your favourite non-Buddhist philosophers?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11531
Re: Who are your favourite non-Buddhist philosophers?
Modern:
Arthur Koestler
Guy Debord
Henri Frederic-Amiel
Jean Baudrillard
Joseph Campbell
Ancient:
Pythagoras
Socrates
Plotinus
Some of the gnostic-christian work i like, such as the Gospel of Thomas.
Arthur Koestler
Guy Debord
Henri Frederic-Amiel
Jean Baudrillard
Joseph Campbell
Ancient:
Pythagoras
Socrates
Plotinus
Some of the gnostic-christian work i like, such as the Gospel of Thomas.
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: yoniso manasikara in the texts.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9378
Re: yoniso manasikara in the texts.
Anyway, I'm interested in Ven Nyanamoli's video speaking on yoni. can you opint me to it? (I didn't know videos of him even existed!) It's not the "classical Nynamoli" the scholar, but here is the video I was talking about where he talks about yoniso, sankhara, dhamma... https://youtu.be/...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3514
Has Thanisarro ever mentioned Nanavira?
I admire both of them, however with Nanavira being so tendentious I've been wondering if Thanisarro has ever said anything about him because he is more a fundamentalist. Anyone know if he's ever commented on him, his work, or the structural interpretation of dependent-origination as opposed to the t...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Breath iddhi?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 428
Breath iddhi?
Is anyone aware of any mention in the canon or commentary of iddhi's, or"miraculous" activity, pertaining to out-breath activity? (Or perhaps the situation is the other way around, the out-breath activity pertaining to that phenomenon regarded as "miraculous" or iddhi...) Any men...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 3:31 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does anyone understand Nanavira's Clearing the Path?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2017
Re: Does anyone understand Nanavira's Clearing the Path?
I find nothing personally of interest in his "mathematics" Nor did I until I heard it explained phenomenologically/situationally, Invariance Under Transformation is what makes the word anicca mean what it means as the Awakened One used it against the meanings of thought and observation - ...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:45 am
- Forum: Dhammic Stories
- Topic: Contemporary poetic reflection from noble point of view?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2792
Contemporary poetic reflection from noble point of view?
What do you think?
"Simile"
If battles with Mara are football games,
Then tailgate parties are customs of the religious & occult;
And if the societal infrastructures are scientists and philosophers,
Then hippies are the mystics.
All else is trash.
"Simile"
If battles with Mara are football games,
Then tailgate parties are customs of the religious & occult;
And if the societal infrastructures are scientists and philosophers,
Then hippies are the mystics.
All else is trash.
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does anyone understand Nanavira's Clearing the Path?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2017
Re: Does anyone understand Nanavira's Clearing the Path?
One thing I want to know is why this guy has so many followers... Followers: please explain.... Why is his interpretation superior to the 1/3 of the tipitika (Abhidhamma) and all of the tikas and the vipassana movement literature? I trust that I wouldn't be out of line to speak on behalf of other &...