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by pegembara
Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality
Replies: 37
Views: 8112

Re: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality

Actually no matter whether it is Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta, both systems talk about the same. In Buddhism we talk about consciousness, but we also talk about awareness. Pure awareness in Buddhism is called Buddha nature. It is said that every living being has Buddha nature. This nature is Pure Aw...
by pegembara
Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Worldly Right view with effluent?
Replies: 9
Views: 203

Re: Worldly Right view with effluent?

Brahmajāla Sutta: The Supreme Net (What the Teaching is Not). The monks observe the wanderer Suppiya arguing with his pupil about the merits of the Buddha, his doctrine (Dhamma ) and the order (Sangha). The Buddha tells them not to be affected by either praise or blame of the teaching, and declares...
by pegembara
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:13 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: One reason why people might deny self
Replies: 8
Views: 193

Re: One reason why people might deny self

This is one of the wrong views listed in the Brahmajala Sutta. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.01.0.bodh.html What is one of the wrong views listed? Any view with craving is a wrong view. Even if you take the Noble Eightfold Path or Nibbana with craving it is a wrong view. "And ...
by pegembara
Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
Replies: 5
Views: 234

Re: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna

In this commentary on the Visuddhimagga, regarding the section which discusses nibbāna, Ven. Dhammapāla writes this yadi nibbānaṃ nāma sabhāvadhammo atthi sattasantānapariyāpanno ca, atha kasmā catumahāpathe sabhā viya sabbasādhāraṇā na labbhatīti āha "maggasamaṅginā pattabbato asādhāraṇa"...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:24 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
Replies: 26
Views: 978

Re: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?

Causes and conditions, aka dependent origination. The question was wrongly asked based on a presumption or assumption! How did the teaching come about? is a better way of putting it. "Not a valid question," the Blessed One said. 'From what as a requisite condition comes ... https://www.acc...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:37 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
Replies: 7
Views: 210

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

The Buddha says yes. Characterized (by Action) Lakkhaṇa Sutta (AN 3:2) Note the title is Lakkhana sutta, not the more famous Anatta-lakkhana Sutta: The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.nymo.html https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
Replies: 7
Views: 210

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? The Buddha says yes. "kammalakkhaṇo, bhikkhave, bālo, kammalakkh...
by pegembara
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:54 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Which one should I follow?
Replies: 12
Views: 477

Re: Which one should I follow?

Follow what works best in your own experience. :anjali: Sound advice and is in fact what the Buddha recommended. And if it works initially but is later found to be unhelpful, be prepared to change course. The last thing you want is to keep doing things that don't work for you. "Of course you a...
by pegembara
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 50
Views: 1084

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

Here is another passage for context - "Monks, an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person might grow disenchanted with this body composed of the four great elements, might grow dispassionate toward it, might gain release from it. Why is that? Because the growth & decline, the taking up & put...
by pegembara
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:30 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 50
Views: 1084

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

lostitude wrote: ↑ 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...
by pegembara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:02 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Two Nibbāna Elements
Replies: 9
Views: 321

Re: Two Nibbāna Elements

Therefore, bhikkhus, that base should be understood Base? Dimension That "call it whatever you want" should be understood... where the mind ceases and perception of mental phenomena fades away. ‘Therefore, bhikkhus, that base should be understood, where the eye ceases and perception of fo...
by pegembara
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:56 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Two Nibbāna Elements
Replies: 9
Views: 321

Re: Two Nibbāna Elements

If we argue that Anagami is the Nibbana with residue why can't we say Sotapanna is also a Nibbana with residue? Then we have to examine the meaning of Nibbana. Nibbana means the elimination of craving fully. Only a living Arahant fits this description. “What, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with r...
by pegembara
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:29 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
Replies: 24
Views: 675

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

Dear Friends As far as somebody in control one cannot realized Nibbana. Nibbna is a Asankatha dhamma. It is a state where causes and effects fully ceased. With Metta Nibbana is simply the cessation of mental and physical phenomena that becomes manifest as the signless (animittapaccupanhanam) to a n...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 50
Views: 1084

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

It gets even 'worse' in that we don't even own our 'minds'! "Monks, an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person might grow disenchanted with this body composed of the four great elements, might grow dispassionate toward it, might gain release from it. Why is that? Because the growth & decline, t...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:07 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
Replies: 24
Views: 675

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 ...