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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 16
- Views: 205
Re: Momentariness
It's about anicca, momentariness is just a way of understanding anicca in my opinion.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the difference between ignorance and wrong view?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 341
Re: What is the difference between ignorance and wrong view?
What is the difference between ignorance and wrong view? The english terms are virtually synonyms. The pali terms sometimes translated as ignorance; avijja and moha, are probably better translated as delusion for this reason. Michha ditthi = misunderstanding, whereas avijja and moha is more defilem...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Monasteries with a cool climate in Thailand/Sri Lanka
- Replies: 3
- Views: 173
Re: Monasteries with a cool climate in Thailand/Sri Lanka
In the north east and north of Thailand during the cold season it gets quite cold at night, the trouble is it still gets hot during the day often more than 30 degrees, but at least its a dry heat that time of year. I heard Kandy in Sri Lanka is relatively cool, I've never been there, but as its trop...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is there the idea of a third eye in any lineage of Buddhism or Theravada Buddhism?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 220
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Is it true that in meditation we cannot make any body movements?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 192
Re: Is it true that in meditation we cannot make any body movements?
Generally you can move the body if you need to but you need to understand why you are moving. You shouldn't just move out of impulse, rather reflect on what is prompting you to move, reflect on whether its really necessary or whether there is an alternative, then slowly move mindfully, then reflect ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 742
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 742
Re: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
I would suggest calming bodily fabrication means letting go of controlling and allowing the breath to become naturally calm, controlling agitates rather than calms.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:24 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
- Replies: 12
- Views: 614
Re: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
Are you saying the Aryan contribution is mainly just superficial naming? No, more cultural. Why would the Buddha use this convention if there was no connection? Nobility is a general concept, it isn't owned by one religion. I would disagree, since he also uses a cosmology that is partly aligned wit...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 725
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 725
Re: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
Ignorance is a defilement, if the minds nature was ignorance then there would be no possibility for it to be defiled by ignorance as a separate factor and there would be no possibility of freedom from it.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:17 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
- Replies: 12
- Views: 614
Re: Aryan and Dravidian, Vedic and Sramana
The Buddha was teaching the Eightfold path and taught the Ariya way, but was following the sramana tradition which likely has origins with the Dravidian Indus Valley and the yogic tradition. So can we see the Buddha Dhamma as a merging of these two great traditions? What's the other one? If you mea...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:03 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 742
Re: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
Some people say, in meditation we need to make an effort to make our breathing subtle, deep and slow, while others say we shouldn't try to control our breathing, we should just observe it. What is your opinion on this? The breath is naturally subtle when you aren't undergoing physical activity or t...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is this knowledge for?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1141
Re: What is this knowledge for?
Unless you're planning to compete in the Buddhist Trivial Pursuit championships accumulating knowledge is a waste of time except where there is a practical application. Look for practical applications for the knowledge that you already have, if you can't see any then maybe accumulate a different kin...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: How do I become a nun?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 723
Re: How do I become a nun?
As you are in Greece and are fluent in english you've got easy access to any monastery in the EU, I'm not sure about the UK. I'd recommend that you arrange to stay in a monastery in Europe for a couple of weeks to see how you like it. Here is a page of contacts in the Ajahn Chah tradition https://fo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Is sati discernment?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 441
Re: Is sati discernment?
Sati is very interested interested in noticing unwholesome habits and learning to let go of them or replacing them with wholesome.