Dhamma Wheel

🕊 We struggle to understand Nimitta. In the literature, It pops up in various contexts. For the meditator what counts is the soteriological context. So we return to Buddha and Paticca samuppada he proclaimed, under the tree of awakening. Intension of any skillful effort, is to uproot dukkha... Where...

Confused wrote

fishing is bad. buddha got headache for 3 days because of karma of fishing in past

Where did you read that? in the Jatakas? Was he a bird (say heron) in that lifetime? in that case
should he not be excused? Or was he like a robin fishing for earthworms?
With love

A complete understanding of a concept is difficult, unless several suttas, addressed to different disciples, are assembled from Middle length, Connected, and Numerical discourses of Buddha. Conceiving tends to lessen. Even though we are not arahants, in these moments, profoundness of Dhamma sets in;...

SteRo wrote binocular wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:34 am SteRo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:17 am Simply discuss without effluents and/or don't take the aggregates that discern and display thoughts and feelings as self or belonging to self . Best sample of Buddhist deadpan humor in a long time! Don't sa...

🥀  concluding remarks on Sujato's instructions on jhana. Sujato hilights metaphors from DN2, 1st jhana: kneading, stroking, coaxing bath powder into a gelatinous mass,   the gathering of  thought, a process in which Piti or Rapture is born. Piti arrives because one lets go of coarser forms of suffer...

🥀  on the topic of life's grand pleasures, Sujato continues, "Buddha gave his own spin to jhana",  At around 30.34 of the video "Life of Pleasure (Jhana)" he says Samadhi is coalescence of the mind, for instance vitaka vicara is the development and purification of an ordinary state of mind. In first...

Thank you very much dear Nicolas. I read the article, it gave me a headache. I do not like the cocktail of metaphysics, ontology etc. For the soteriological purpose, it is not necessary. Only Samma sati and Samma samadhi are necessary. Never having studied philosophy in college, I do not easily get ...

Binocular wrote "mikenz66 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:39 am I was intrigued by a description of a certain teacher as: ... framing his argument as that of an insightful truth-teller, an outsider able to shed the delusions that have transfixed the mainstream. This happened to be Bhikkhu Sujato commenti...

"A village pig bathed in perfumed water, garlanded and laid on the best bed, will still return to the dunghill. In the same way Potthapada still returns to the idea of self"  From the foot notes to Potthapada. 'The Long Discourses of the Buddha' When Potthapada asks Lord, is perception a person's s...

"Why must Buddhists know the suttas Ajahn Sujato" 14th Nov. 2014. If you retrieve this video from the web, and ff to 39.00 approximately, and listen onwards, not too long. a synopsis: how do we apply suttas  to our lives make the sutta live make it relevant Dhamma has no purpose unless it has meanin...

Potthapada sutta DN 9 comes to mind.... Long time ago I described to a friend, when I was confronted on the subject of "Self" as taught by Buddha, my friend was firmly rooted in the notion of "self" rigidly. I used an idea found in the instructions to Potthapada. Many years later I cannot do any bet...

SteRo wrote "Why should I explain what I have not stated?" Good enuf, let us drop the topic. You further write Of course perfectly pure emptiness is empty of signs of self but it is incompatible with signs of 'anatta' because perfectly pure emptiness is signless This is not how Theravadins think, th...

Quarantine, and COVID-19, in a way jhana is a process of quarantining the mind, until the residues of "I" disappears. Once "I" has vanished who on earth can the virus's receptors latch on to? Sticky knobs on viral surface , have an affinity for the victim's cell surface receptors allowing virus to p...

SarathW Writes

What is the Pali word for "bare awareness"?

Vinnana-matta, it is also translated as 'bare-cognition', by some scholars.

SteRo wrote Again you don't get the intended meaning of my words. Assuming that you understand the English expression "the point of departure" the "the point of departure" in the present context varies from individual to individual which is why it is the strongest argument for and against (dry) insi...