Brah. Gotta be careful with them shrooms!Cause_and_Effect wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:38 pm So the Aryan migration to the Indus Valley was in a sense, a return migration. 'They came back as Aryans'
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- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
- Replies: 12
- Views: 518
Re: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
- Replies: 12
- Views: 518
Re: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
Renowned Finnish scholar Asko Parpola, in his book Deciphering the Indus Script , convincingly demonstrated that these images are just sitting bulls from Proto-Elam. There is no "Yogic lotus" in the image. There is no yogin. All scholars agree that Indus Valley civilization was heavily inf...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
- Replies: 167
- Views: 5986
Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikaya Volume 2 When you read the suttas, you have no idea if you are reading ancient commentary or not. A Buddhism that is free of commentary has never existed. Not at all! There are surely a few cases when this happened, and the commentaries go back to the begi...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 33
- Views: 944
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 10985
Re: Identity View
In DN9, when talking about the different kinds of attas he clarifies "These are the world’s common usages, terms, means of communication, and descriptions, which the Realized One uses to communicate without getting stuck on them." Meaning he uses "self", as you see in the Dhamma...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 10985
Re: Identity View
From the point of view of Classical Theravada the Buddha is speaking conventionally here. On the direct question of self, no-self is annihiltionism if it’s viewed in the sense of an existing Being being destroyed. The Buddha is quite clear that if Vacchagotta hadn’t been liable to such confusion, h...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Kamma and intention
- Replies: 33
- Views: 944
Re: Kamma and intention
This is a really great illustration of why the Buddha didn't teach that there is no self. And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it. If all dhammas are empty of a self, then a self doesn’t exist. If everything is empty of “blue” then there is no ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1604
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Yes, this old paper by Gethin was good. He also discusses dhammas as states or qualities at length in his main book the Buddhist path to Awakening (highly recommended). For those who don't know, Rupert Gethin is a devoted Buddhist practitioner who belongs to the English Samatha Trust . Here are two...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1604
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Yes, this old paper by Gethin was good. He also discusses dhammas as states or qualities at length in his main book the Buddhist path to Awakening (highly recommended). For those who don't know, Rupert Gethin is a devoted Buddhist practitioner who belongs to the English Samatha Trust . Here are two ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1920
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
The discussion of the nonchalance of the worldly attitude resulted in the very personal psychedelic wars . How ironic =)
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: New introduction from an old user
- Replies: 10
- Views: 520
Re: New introduction from an old user
Welcome! What was the topic of your PhD, if I may ask? (you can also write me in PM, if you don't want to disclose it in public) My doctoral dissertation was about heresiography in the early Purāṇas, particularly in their predictions about the Kali Yuga. These Purāṇic accounts depict Jains and Budd...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 481
Re: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
Do you mean why is it in the instrumental, as it reads oddly in English as a direct translation? If so, it's because the instrumental sometimes works that way - it's used for "filled with", for example. It has a broad use in Pali. Yes sorry, typo. It’s been a long week working :zzz: If th...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 481
Re: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
I also don't understand the question.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: How do I become a nun?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 719
Re: How do I become a nun?
Hello, sphairos. Thank you for your kind reply. I meditate every day for 2 to 3 hours but I've never done more. I imagine if I ordain 3 hours will become 8 to 10 or something. I have more than enough time to myself actually to even do 10 hours, I am currently a student, it's just that I waste much ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
- Replies: 167
- Views: 5986
Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
In your initial post you state that in Buddhism there is not a Tillichean "Ground of Being", but this discussion seems to show that you actually gravitate towards such a view. -- You are looking for the Fundamental Truth and Nature of reality... I am putting together the pieces that the B...