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by SilvioB
Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:48 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Four Noble Truths
Replies: 16
Views: 5776

Re: The Four Noble Truths

So your question of the "experience of the end of suffering" is a bit misguided. Hello Buck Wheat I pursuited more investigation of the Four Noble Truths in Wikipedia. I find a link to Buddha's original stanzas. It say Nirvana is an object of knowledge. I think my questioning is not misgu...
by SilvioB
Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:18 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: dukkha as Conflict, nirodha as Resolution
Replies: 21
Views: 4544

Re: dukkha as Conflict, nirodha as Resolution

If you look at the "twelfth link" of dependent origination, for example, you get a flavor of the different manifestations of dukkha , and it is by no means exhaustive. And in general, dependent origination explicates the conflictual aspects of dukkha . Hello Daniel I enter 'dependent orig...
by SilvioB
Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:39 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: dukkha as Conflict, nirodha as Resolution
Replies: 21
Views: 4544

Re: dukkha as Conflict, nirodha as Resolution

Is all dukkha conflict? For example, is child birth a conflict? Many emotional pains could be called conflict, but there are other pains and sufferings that don't appear to have conflict. I don't know if all conflict is dukkha, but all conflict involves dukkha, and perhaps the reverse--all dukkha i...
by SilvioB
Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:22 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Four Noble Truths
Replies: 16
Views: 5776

Re: The Four Noble Truths

Buddha said: Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books....
by SilvioB
Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:26 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Four Noble Truths
Replies: 16
Views: 5776

Re: The Four Noble Truths

Hello Jarmika I read your post and hope to ask you a question, if I can. If all things and all experiences are marked by suffering/ disharmony/ frustration, how can a person achieve the cessation or end of suffering/ disharmony/ frustration? Or is the cessation or end of suffering not a 'thing' and ...