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Hi friends, here are the Chinese recordings of Dhammapada: http://www2.budaedu.org/ghosa/C008/T0579/ http://www2.budaedu.org/ghosa/C008/T0851/ I'm looking for Chinese recordings of suttas for my mom, who can barely read. Please share your findings here, which would be greatly appreciated. Metta to a...

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Hello friends, Happy New Year! I was away for quite a while. Nice to see that interesting discussions continue in this forum. I wonder if the following procedure is only specific to certain monastery or not. As I remember from the suttas, the Buddha didn't seem to have asked the 15 questions to orda...

Happy new year! Thanks for your contributions to the discussions. I've just come back to the forum and will read your posts(especially those new ones in my threads) in more details later. Frank: I found the following paragraph at Suttacentral: "Idaṃ kho pana, bhikkhave, duk­kha­sa­muda­yaṃ ariyasacc...

Greetings! I'd like to add the suttas mentioning what should not be attended to, including those incomprehensibles: AN 4.77 Acintita Sutta: Unconjecturable http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html My personal understanding of "the realm of the Buddhas" (buddhavisaya) as an unconjectura...

Greetings! Just to add some relevant information I found on samānattatānaṃ: The Lalita, vistara parallel is samānârthatās [samāna (“equality”) + artha (“benefit, purpose”) + tā (“-ness”)]. The Sanskrit texts have samāna, sukha, duḥkatā, “share equally in joy and in sorrow”). Both support the Chinese...

Greetings!

I happened to compare an older lecture and a recent lecture on MN 117 by Ven. Bodhi, and noticed significant change. So I thought it might be interesting for the readers to listen to his recent lectures on MN:

http://www.noblepath.org/audio.html

Metta to all!

Hi Mike, Thanks for the helpful input. Knowing now that "Samānattatā is a compound of “equal” (samāna) and “oneself” (attan)", and considering the context of this teaching and the other teachings concerning community living, it seems to me that "share equally with others" makes much more sense than ...

Greetings! Thanks to the beneficial work of culaavuso and Unrul3r [The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha - Thematic Guide [http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=19931], I read the suttas "Sustaining wholesome relationships 4:32, 4:256, 8:24, 9:5". I'm wondering about the meaning of "samān...

What is the meaning of the Great Forty? What are the twenty factors on the side of the wholesome, and twenty factors on the side of the unwholesome? It seems to me that each of the two paths has ten factors on the side of the wholesome (right understanding, ... right deliverance) and ten factors on ...

Greetings! From MN 1: "Tathāgatopi, bhikkhave, arahaṃ sammāsambuddho pathaviṃ pathavito abhijānāti; pathaviṃ pathavito abhiññāya pathaviṃ na maññati, pathaviyā na maññati, pathavito na maññati, pathaviṃ meti na maññati, pathaviṃ nābhi nandati . Taṃ kissa hetu? ‘Nandī dukkhassa mūlan’ti —iti viditvā ...

Greetings! I happen to read and compare MN 117 and its Chinese Agama parallel MA 189 and partial parallel SA 785 and SA 789 today, and would like to share the following: In MA 189 only one path with mundane right understanding and other mundane/supramundane path factors (a kind of a hybrid path, wit...

Greetings! Just to share my new understanding of the 16 steps of Ānāpānasati, which appear to be sequential. MN 118: “And how, bhikkhus, is mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated, so that it is of great fruit and great benefit? “Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree ...

Greetings! Thanks to Mike for choosing this great sutta. I was wondering why the Buddha didn't teach ignorance as the origin of suffering and the cessation of ignorance as the cessation of suffering in the stock formulations of the 4NT as found in SN 56:11, V 421, and elsewhere. This sutta seems to ...

Greetings! Thanks to tiltbillings for telling me his opinion. I'm only trying to explore the meaning of the Buddha's words by offering/sharing different sources of information (such as Chinese Agamas) and different understanding, which I thought could benefit the readers. I realized that my posts co...