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'

Brah. Gotta be careful with them shrooms!

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...

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...

Suddh wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:34 pm ...

However, I have to say that according to MN 1, Nibbāna is also a dhamma.

And it was crucial for the later Buddhist tradition, because there exists a single dharma that
is not impermanent and painful.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

The discussion of the nonchalance of the worldly attitude resulted in the very personal psychedelic wars . How ironic =)

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...

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...

I also don't understand the question.

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 ...

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...