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- Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:10 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
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Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
Perhaps this will be of some use: [L(etter) 08] 2 May 1964 to Mr. Wijerama Written by Ven. Ñanavira "You ask for Sutta references of passages where the Buddha has 'explained in specific terms the structure of change'. Beyond the two uppāda/vaya/thitassa aññathattam references (both given in ANI...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:25 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
Who teaches this ? As I understand it, the flux idea occurs in his writings as a byproduct of contemporary discussions to which he was part, i.e. his correspondence and the writings he was sent. Apparently it was somewhat in vogue in such circles, perhaps to do with something quantum. But what is t...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:28 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: David M.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3544
Re: David M.
And so it is! Seven days until I depart... and what a fascinating group of folk with whom to explore the Dhamma! Perhaps I'll find occasion to take the pulse of Dhamma Wheel again; my understanding has been irrevocably aggrandized over these last months, so thank you, all, for that. ~peace~ :anjali:...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:55 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Considering a Pilgrimage
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1596
Re: Considering a Pilgrimage
Perhaps this site.
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:45 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
I don't care to argue Nanavira's point, I only hope to clarify what the point is.
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
I'm unpacking Nanavira's thought for you on account of your question.
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:26 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
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Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
"arising, persisting, ceasing": such are feelings, and when persisting in experience, they endure as a discreet percept such that we can differentiate which of the three we are experiencing. With anger, for example, we may readily identify "I am getting angry", "i am angry&q...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:12 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
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Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
"something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval" Samadhi Sutta (AN 4.41): "And what is the development of concentration that, when developed & pursued, leads to mindfulness & alertness? There is the case where feelings are known to the monk as they arise, known as...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:06 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
Then obviously Nanavira is not particularly adept at expressing his ideas. I am simply reading the text of what he wrote as it is written, and I see no reason from how Nanavira wrote what he wrote not to take what he has written as it is written. If he meant to say something else, then he should ha...
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:15 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
Let me ask: is Nanavira advocating that something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval? "There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should...
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:24 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
IMO he did. I'll race you to stream-entry so we can check, what say you?
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:51 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
A lucid parsing.
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:42 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Pali Term: Idappaccayatā
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17612
Re: Pali Term: Idappaccayatā
However I'm not convinced that "From the arising of this comes the arising of this " conveys it any more clearly than "From the arising of this comes the arising of that ." Spiny It's actually an essential distinction, thus: "But, Udāyi, let be the past, let be the future, ...
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:49 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
- Replies: 399
- Views: 69373
Re: something endures unchanged for at least a certain interval
For thems who have not kept up with set theory since 9th grade, his point, in clear lucid English, is? To present a description of experience which conserves the appearance of permanence sensed by the putthujana while describing a fundamental structure which reveals the underlying fact of impermane...
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What if everyone in America becomes Buddhist?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6004
Re: What if everyone in America becomes Buddhist?
Hooray for idle speculation?