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- Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Battling fatigue and drowsiness while sitting
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1705
Re: Battling fatigue and drowsiness while sitting
In my experience (and that of many others I think), there is absolutely no point battling. This is mind trying to fight against itself/ rejecting the actual circumstances of life. Instead, just notice that you are sleepy, notice that you are more distracted, notice even that you just nodded off for...
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:10 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How common is stream entry?
- Replies: 527
- Views: 66463
Re: How common is stream entry?
The four levels of Awakening are defined by the extent to which they cut the ten fetters by which the mind binds itself to conditioned experience. .. .. .. "In this community of monks there are monks who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, are stream-winners, steadfast, never again...
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:13 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1867
Re: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
Greetings, If time is not unconditioned, it is conditioned. It therefore arises with all conditioned phenomena. Dependently. Or.... "time" is just a concept, and it only arises (in its capacity as a concept) when somebody conceives of it. Metta, Retro. :) Thanks, Retro. I also understand 'time as a...
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How common is stream entry?
- Replies: 527
- Views: 66463
Re: How common is stream entry?
According to the Pali Commentary, six types of defilement would be abandoned by a Sotāpanna: 1.Envy 2.Jealousy 3.Hypocrisy 4.Fraud 5.Denigration 6.Domineering it seems a rare person ideed who has given up these. Hi, Superstar - I only have learned from the suttas that Stream-winners have eradicated...
- Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:50 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Angkhara Khom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 583
Re: Angkhara Khom
Hi, friend Dai Zhi Qiang -
Can you give me a clue about 'Angkhara Khom (ancient form of Cambodian script)' and why was it used for writing 'Katha in Pali in Thailand'?
Thanks.
Can you give me a clue about 'Angkhara Khom (ancient form of Cambodian script)' and why was it used for writing 'Katha in Pali in Thailand'?
Thanks.

- Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:35 pm
- Forum: Discovering Theravāda
- Topic: self
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4135
Re: self
When I spoke with my sister about some relationship trouble, I wanted to say something about Not-self. But of course she isn't Buddhist, she's christian, which would make such a statement pretty unsettling to her. What I did say was that, if she defined herself by what was past, that she'd poison t...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:13 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1867
Re: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
So, please kindly advise ... what is that answer, Peter?PeterB wrote:There is one possible answer to your question in my reply Dhamma Spoon.



- Sat Aug 14, 2010 6:01 pm
- Forum: Discovering Theravāda
- Topic: self
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4135
Re: self
Hi, all - I hope my thought below does not sound too sarcastic to you. A weight-loss ad reads : 'How to stop eating, once and for all?" It doesn't make sense to educate an overweight person : 'Who eats? There is no one eating.' How would such empty "no-self" philosophy help a fat person who wants to...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:49 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1867
Re: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
Are you suggesting that time is unconditioned ? No, Peter, I did not. But this question you asked is a separate issue from the one I had asked you earlier! [i.e. How do you know and can you show that "time arises dependently with all dhammas"?] All I know about time is that it is a concept that is ...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:34 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1867
Re: What's going to happen to YOU when you die?
Brilliant. And of course where he has ended up is the same position as Ajahn Buddhadasa or Lung Por Chah. That questions of after death states or Rebirth or " eternal life" only come about when we lose sight of the fact that in reality there is only now. That questions about Rebirth or Non Rebirth ...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:22 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Spelling/translation please?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1442
Re: Spelling/translation please?
I need my Native speakers again!! First: How do you call a relationship that is only about sex? (sorry, I'm translating a website about relationships :embarassed: ) ... ... Can I say it like this? :? We call it : Put somebody in a drawer. You can 't get out of a drawer anymore. . Thanks! :anjali: H...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Wise Understanding of Dukkha
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2628
Re: Wise Understanding of Dukkha
Dear Dhamma friend TMing (and other readers) - I found myself nodding often as I was reading through your Dhamma-wise comment. Yes, I totally agree with your suggestion. :thanks: TMing: "Perfect renunciation is one cause of liberation. Disenchantment is one cause of perfect renunciation. Disenchantm...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Wise Understanding of Dukkha
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2628
Re: Wise Understanding of Dukkha
I think there is a big difference in looking for the TRUTH of suffering (understanding, insight based) as opposed to the EMOTION of suffering (mood, feeling). One leads to letting go, the other, perhaps worsening of the problem, perhaps understanding its roots. with metta RYB Thank you for making t...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:20 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
Hi, Vepacitta -Vepacitta wrote:Hey Dhamma
Spoon - you put that post in the wrong thread - I opened up a new thread for this![]()
V.
Where do I find that "new thread", friend?

- Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:49 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
Hey Asura, -
Thank you for setting up a new thread for that topic, my friend.
Dhamma_spoon
Thank you for setting up a new thread for that topic, my friend.
Dhamma_spoon

- Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:47 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Wholesome, taints and sense restraint
Perhaps we should start a topic on restraint, wholesome behaviour, removal of the taints? Hi, Asura Vepacitta and all - Thank you for the wholesome initiation. :soap: Below I provide the necessary sutta background to assist us in this discussion. 1. Wholesome and Unwholesome "Killing living beings ...
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:45 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
:stirthepot: Isn't you're arm tired yet?! :tongue: Perhaps we should start a topic on restraint, wholesome behaviour, removal of the taints? I'm down. I'll look for it tomorrow. Good discussion everyone. Hi, SDC and Asura - Good point! Yes, I'm tired too (stirring the Dhamma pot for too long)! Okay...
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:40 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
Perhaps we should start a topic on restraint, wholesome behaviour, removal of the taints? Hi Asura Vepacitta - Please do! Let me provide an excellent source of sutta that treats both wholesomeness and taints ! http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.009.ntbb.html" onclick="window.open(this.hr...
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:20 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
I see that danger too -- the danger of biasedness. Yes, an unwholesome sanna (perception, label) CAN make the mind tend to "dwell" in a wrong (unwholesome) domain. Would you suggest that a) we develop positive sanna, or 2) we completely abandon sanna? So funny that you say this. I was reviewing Ven...
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:49 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: difficult situation
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4459
Re: difficult situation
"What was Fonzie?" "C ... cool?" "That's right - Fonzie was cool. So that's what we're all gonna be right now. We're gonna be cool." -Pulp Fiction 8-) Speaking of term - unwholesome v wholesome - I understand (really!) that people can change. Whether they actually do or not - well - it's rare in my...