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by pegembara
Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:56 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
Replies: 16
Views: 319

Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?

If one couldn’t (up to a certain degree and dependent of the circumstances of the actual life) control the way the mind behaves and develops there wouldn’t be a teaching to overcome dukkha (Nibbana). Wouldn’t you say also? Dukkha is to be understood , not overcome. There is nothing to overcome and ...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
Replies: 3
Views: 102

Re: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?

"Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect. " AN 6.63

Are intentions permanent or impermanent?
Since they are clearly impermanent, can intentions define a person?
by pegembara
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:06 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
Replies: 16
Views: 319

Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?

This is what I don't understand also. how can good thoughts, generosity, good speech be not self if they accumulate into well being. Goodness builds up. So how can it be impermanent? If goodness were permanent, why is there a need to build it up? If things can be accumulated, are they permanent or ...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
Replies: 16
Views: 319

Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?

You don't attain nibbana. You realise it through non clinging. A realisation rather than an attainment or gain. "Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, dis...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:16 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 13
Views: 189

Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"

I'm adding the quote for context: "If this body is really mine, it will obey my commands. when I say "don't get old" or "I forbid you from getting hurt!" does it listen to me? No! It doesn't care about my opinion at all. We are only tenants, not owners of this "house&q...
by pegembara
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:07 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna
Replies: 2
Views: 112

Re: Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna

Interesting to compare this with what Dhammadinna says in Cullavedalla. Of course this does not map with the jhanas directly. "But when a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, which things cease first: bodily fabrications, verbal fabrications, or mental fabrications?"...
by pegembara
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:38 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path is in
Replies: 13
Views: 279

Re: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path i

1st bundle/collection=sila 2nd bundle=samadhi 3rd bundle=panna/wisdom The 4 Noble Truths are the elephant footprint. The Four Noble Truth taught by the Buddha as a framework for practice are: dukkha (suffering), samudaya (the cause of suffering), nirodha (the end of suffering) and magga (the path le...
by pegembara
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:35 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The subject of "Buddha-Nature" in Theravada Buddhism. What unites Buddhists?
Replies: 24
Views: 1281

Re: The subject of "Buddha-Nature" in Theravada Buddhism. What unites Buddhists?

[title] .. What unites Buddhists? Quite easy. What unites Buddhists is ... Anatta, of course. BTW, What divides Buddhists is ... umm ... Anatta too. :jumping: What unites and divides is self cherishing! :toast: Nimokkha Sutta The Discourse on Release S 1.2 1 Originating in Sāvatthī. Then, when the ...
by pegembara
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:36 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
Replies: 73
Views: 3758

Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed

It seems a unsurpassable person like the Buddha are not that popular , famous or well known compared to Jesus and Mohammed . It seems both Jesus and Mohammed followers are outnumbered the Buddha . Would it be possible buddhism try to catch up with them ? It's a numbers game, is it? To a large exten...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Safe place during war
Replies: 29
Views: 562

Re: Safe place during war

You could move to a tropical island with lots of beautiful women. Find work there, and enjoy your life. Meditate on your off time and deeply delve into beautiful Buddhist texts. Or, ordain as a Monk in one of the Buddhist countries you mentioned, maybe another one. However, I think you should start...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:46 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
Replies: 73
Views: 3758

Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed

It seems a unsurpassable person like the Buddha are not that popular , famous or well known compared to Jesus and Mohammed . It seems both Jesus and Mohammed followers are outnumbered the Buddha . Would it be possible buddhism try to catch up with them ? It's a numbers game, is it? The richest pers...
by pegembara
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:18 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 18894

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

Care to elaborate? End of existence is said but not meant It’s meant but not completely Middle way is not extreme way To me, the Middle Way is a non-denial of existence and non-existence by way of dependent arising. Cessation of sense experience, which is a different thing, can be temporary or fina...
by pegembara
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:44 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 18894

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

cappuccino wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:29 am
pegembara wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:27 am Is there a difference between temporary and permanent cessation?
The middle way
Care to elaborate?
by pegembara
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:27 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 18894

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

If it does cease, is that annihilation for you? There is no annihilation Is there a difference between temporary and permanent cessation? "There are these three things that are (genuine) mother-&-child-separating dangers. Which three? The danger of aging, the danger of illness, the danger ...
by pegembara
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:23 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 18894

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

What does nirodha or cessation/ending mean to you? What about this? Still temporary? This was said by the Lord… The born, come-to-be, produced … What happens to the born? Does it cease/end? If so, how does this come about? If it does cease, is that annihilation for you? What happened to the dinosau...