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Right Effort, Right Intention and Right Concentration are skills to be developed. They aren't developed by mere will. I cannot simply decide to have Right Effort and Right Intention, but by constantly choosing wholesome conditions over unwholesome conditions (in order to know what is what there mus...

That's interesting, and the ( lack of ) control aspect is useful to consider, particularly at the mind-base. But what about the application of Right Effort Right Intention and Right Concentration, choosing to develop more skillful states of mind? And what about the view that mindfulness ( paying at...

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Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:50 pm

Aren't these factors a part of Mind Consciousness though?

I assume they are, yes.

Thank you. The universals as they are called in the Ahidhamma are numerate as 7. Are the 5 you have mentioned listed in any suttas and labelled as Citta? No, they aren't mentioned in the suttas labbeling citta. They are mentionend in the suttas describing nama in namarupa. When I remember the sutta...

Hi, I have just read the Mahānidāna Sutta (The Great Discourse on Origination), and going through the stages of dependant origination we have 'Mind-and-body conditions consciousness'. What is the difference between mind and consciousness? Thanks. Hi, “mind“ here is usually defined as attention (man...

I don't think it's something that you want to "root out". It comes back to mindfulness. Simply observe the rising and passing away of thoughts. If you can maintain the continuity of mindfulness, then the true nature of thoughts will reveal themselves. Then you will come to the realization that they...

I am interested in Buddho as Vipassana, are there more instructions on how it can be used in this sense? In the mental recitation method for one-pointedness of the citta notice "who" is reciting "Buddho". One should look at the citta when it is calm. Let mindfulness watch the base and when any sens...

I don't see why the putting out the fires of raga, dosa and moha excludes nibbana being a sphere. I don't see why they are mutually exclusive. And I don't see how you come to the conclusion that nibbana might be a sphere in the first place. The use of "atthi" ( "exists" ), suggests that Nibbana is ...

Nibbana certainly involves the cessation of craving, aversion and delusion, but that is not the only description of Nibbana in the suttas. What is your take on the OP passage? It seems to describe Nibbana as always having been there, so more like a transcendent realm or sphere. You're right, the ce...

Goofaholix wrote:I would think it is a transcendent state of mind. I don't think the word "just" is appropriate.

I second that.

We should keep in mind that nibbana is essentially a description for the final ending of greed, hatred and delusion.

best wishes, acinteyyo

Not particularly. If I understand the rest of your post, it is the assumption of a self in the process of seeing, not assumptions about external reality. However, I'm not sure I completely grasped it... From the assumption of a self in the seen comes the assumption of an external world. Remarkable ...

"In the seen, just the seen" suggests that there is something to be seen. It's as if the subject has gone ( "no you there" ) but the object remains ( "the seen" ). What if you assume that it was always this way, “objects“ only and that the mistake is to consider one or more “objects“ to be more tha...

Interesting point. I wonder if the Bahiya Sutta passage is relevant here, it seems to describe liberation from the assumption of "me" as a subject, the assumption of an "in here" as opposed to an "out there". But there is then the question of how we interpret "in the seen, just the the seen". http:...

But is the "bound" interpretation inexorable? Could you please give me a hint what exactly you are referring to? Hi acinteyyo It was a point canvassed in the Timeless Model thread, where 2 variants of Phenomenology's "bound" interpretation were addressed by pointing out 3 paradoxes which cannot be ...

Sylvester wrote:But is the "bound" interpretation inexorable?

Could you please give me a hint what exactly you are referring to?

Sure, dependent arising and conditionality. But that requires the presence of sense-objects, and sense-objects imply something "out there". And in the Loka Sutta contact arises in dependence on sense-base, sense-object and sense-consciousness. But there would be no contact without sense-objects, an...

Witch view is correct ? 1) The "external world" [...] does not really exist. 2) The "external world" exists [...] Both views are examples of wrong view. By & large, Kaccayana, this world is supported by (takes as its object) a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the origi...

No, because just telling someone the truth, is in most cases, not enough to clear his or her ignorance. What if science dispoves all those things? Would you say that people will continue to believe in them because just telling someone the truth, is in most cases, not enough to clear his or her igno...

I just wonder even if science proves that there is re-birth, Kamma, Vipaka, Deva and Brahma worlds, super normal powers will the people are going to be different. Will this be a better place? Will we see many Arahants? Will there be many Buddhist. If your answer is "No" give reasons. Then what is t...

Nobody else but the “outsider“ himself is to blame for his “outsiderdom“. He or she does not want to make the slightest effort to change and to make a step towards the path to liberation. That is why he or she stands outside. The thing is that many theists use this same rhetoric: "If you end up in ...