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by luisisrael
Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:52 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: The Concept of Emptiness in Pali Literature
Replies: 5
Views: 4797

Re: The Concept of Emptiness in Pali Literature

Hello all, just read the book by Medawachchiye Dhammajothi Thero (The Concept of Emptiness in Pali Litearture). Is is quite a good book, though it needs an urgent review to correct misspellings. Basically it shows how the view of emptiness is the same in early buddhist suttas and in nagarjuna's madh...
by luisisrael
Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Lay Buddhists and the end of sexual intercourse?
Replies: 67
Views: 10942

Re: Lay Buddhists and the end of sexual intercourse?

Sex is suffering (1st truth) But is sex cause for suffering? (2nd truth). This first one we can find in the canon. But what about the second one? It seems that the Buda clearly stated that wrong sex causes suffering. Like other people already said, it implys that there is a proper sex which does not...
by luisisrael
Wed May 30, 2012 4:13 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: The Concept of Emptiness in Pali Literature
Replies: 5
Views: 4797

Re: The Concept of Emptiness in Pali Literature

:clap: In early Sutta Paticca-sumppada was presented to explain causality, and in doing so the Buddha had to show that the then prevalent theories namly, self-creation, (Saya katam) external creation (Param katam) both self-creation and external creation, and also no causation or accidental causatio...
by luisisrael
Sun May 27, 2012 9:36 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Buddha omniscient
Replies: 29
Views: 6867

Re: Buddha omniscient

Hello Mike, Thanks for the warning. I'm new around here and not aware of the rules. Still. It stands my search, as you say, to understand how Theravada tradition sees those teachings. Specially I am concerned with Abiddhama's cosmology: the representation of a world system as containing continents a...
by luisisrael
Sun May 27, 2012 6:23 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Buddha omniscient
Replies: 29
Views: 6867

Re: Buddha omniscient

Welcome luisisrael, That's an interesting question. But perhaps interpreting the Suttas and Abhihdhamma as if they were a scientific treatise on geology and geography would be to miss the point. :anjali: Mike But then what is the point of those teachings? "In the same way, monks, those things ...
by luisisrael
Sat May 26, 2012 9:36 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Buddha omniscient
Replies: 29
Views: 6867

Re: Buddha omniscient

Hello friends.

If the Wise was indeed omniscient, if his knowledge was unhindered, then why would he talk about Jambudipa continent and all the cosmos that is described in unprecise way in the Abidhama?

thank you

Luis