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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is this knowledge for?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 66
What is this knowledge for?
What is this knowledge for? I just started to think about why I am so engrossed in Buddhism. I feel that Sutta's study is mainly for monks. I just wondered whether there is much practical usage for laypeople. Is the exploration of Buddhism any different to the exploration of otherworldly pursuits? I...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1055
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Conditioned qualities are fabricated. And nibbana is beyond fabrication by definition. We have to distinguish between conditioned and unconditioned dhammas. "Anything we experience" covers both? That would make sense if we consider all dhammas in this context to be "phenomena" t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
- Replies: 396
- Views: 73150
Re: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
How can we explain the poor people stranded in the middle of the war?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:01 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: An example of sila in practice
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1140
Re: An example of sila in practice
I think this has nothing to do with Sila as per Buddhism.
It appears to me these come under general social ethics.
Perhaps this may be fitting to the Brhmavihara Karuna if this lady needs a seat badly.
I always offer my seat to the needy as a social gesture rather than the practice of Sila.
It appears to me these come under general social ethics.
Perhaps this may be fitting to the Brhmavihara Karuna if this lady needs a seat badly.
I always offer my seat to the needy as a social gesture rather than the practice of Sila.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:37 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
- Replies: 2
- Views: 52
Re: Getting through guilt and other emotional difficulties
One example, at the moment I have a lot of guilt about how I was towards my mum. I was difficult and could, should have been more tolerant. I can't apologise as she is no longer here, but I felt the same whilst she was still alive anyway. Good news here is that you are aware of your emotions. (this...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1055
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
Is Nibbana Dhamma? What is Nirodhadhamma? For #1: ...Sankhara is subordinate to the still wider and all-embracing term dhamma (thing); for dhamma includes also the Unformed or Unconditioned Element (asankhata-dhātu), i.e. Nibbāna (e.g. in sabbe dhammā anattā, "all things are without a self&quo...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Indra’s Pillar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 343
Re: Indra’s Pillar
In New Zealand, the native New Zealanders erect long posts in front of their communal houses.
Perhaps this is a very old tradition to mark the territory.
Mike might have better information about this.
Perhaps this is a very old tradition to mark the territory.
Mike might have better information about this.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Family Life and Relationships
- Topic: Dilemma
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1195
Re: Dilemma
Hello all, do You think is good idea to leave My family (parents) without their permission or without telling them? Would they became sad? Is it Bad? I'm in hard problem. I think running away from home is an attitude of young people. This is very common in Sri Lanka I have seen dozens of running aw...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1055
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
So, to expand on Halbfass's remarks, to describe y as x-dharma, is to say that y is something that possesses the dharma – the attribute, the quality – that is x; and in philosophical, as opposed to purely grammatical, terms, the ‘something’ that possesses an attribute (dharmin) is an underlying sub...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:51 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What does it mean?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 161
Re: What does it mean?
Pleasure or pressure?
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Joke!!! 2.0
- Replies: 143
- Views: 146287
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Sucitto on refuge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 138
Re: Sucitto on refuge
Is this about the three refuges in Buddhism? I could not understand a word of his statement. :thinking: Apparently it is. You'd hardly know it. I'm a native English speaker, have a degree in English and it sounds like mush to me, too. It reminds me of Ani Sutta, The Peg, where the Buddha warns of h...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Looking for Sutta (Anguttara) for Lobha Dosa Moha
- Replies: 2
- Views: 117
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1055
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
The meaning(s) of dhamma (nina van Gorkom) https://classicaltheravada.org/t/the-meaning-of-dhamma-by-nina-van-gorkom/25 Conclusion: There are many meanings of dhamma as it is used in different contexts. As we have seen, the aim of the teachings is not merely knowing the texts, but the application o...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Qn. on Three Refuges
- Replies: 4
- Views: 388
Re: Qn. on Three Refuges
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.htmlI go to Master Gotama for refuge, to the Dhamma, & to the community of monks. May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forward, for life."