No direct relationship. But the 3-Knowledge the Buddha attained during the watches of the night in MN 36 obviously helped with the insight/wisdom in His many teachings, where AN 3.70 is one among them. Thank you for answer. I had in mind the connection between the three watches of the night and Yām...

Venerables and Friends, Is there any relationship between the three watches of the night where the Buddha attained the three true knowledges and the three types of Uposatha that are described in AN3.71, that is: 1- The Uposatha of the cowherd 2- The Uposatha of the Jains 3- The uposatha of the noble...

If you want to understand the worrying, then investigate the intention or motivation. After all, kamma is said to be intention. What is the intention of a spiritual practitioner? to escape the unpleasantness of worldly affairs - either by transcending the world altogether, or by developing enough eq...

Ignorance as a condition refers more to darkness than to nature. For example, you could say that the nature of the eye is that it cannot see in darkness, or that light is a necessary condition for the eye to see. This should not obscure conditionality, in the sense that both light and darkness contr...

The United Nations seems to have similar patterns to Buddhist cosmology. The five permanent members are the product of major cosmological events (WWII), while the rotating ten members resembles devas who join the adults table for a while but with much less powers (so there is a grain of truth in mer...

In MN142, we have another example where a Bahira is presented as a separate category of his/her own: Now, Ānanda, gifts to the following persons may be expected to yield the following returns. To an animal, a hundred times. To an unethical ordinary person, a thousand. To an ethical ordinary person, ...

MN 56. MN56 seems to be presenting a hypothetical scenario rather than an actual case: “What do you think, householder? Suppose an ascetic or brahmin with psychic power, who has achieved mastery of the mind, were to come along and say: ‘I will reduce Nāḷandā to ashes with a single malevolent act of...

MN 56. MN56 seems to be presenting a hypothetical scenario rather than an actual case: “What do you think, householder? Suppose an ascetic or brahmin with psychic power, who has achieved mastery of the mind, were to come along and say: ‘I will reduce Nāḷandā to ashes with a single malevolent act of...

SarathW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:55 pm But another Sutta is talking about another recluse using his supernormal powers to destroy a village.

Which sutta are you referring to? What you describe sounds like Milarepa.

The Theravada position appears to be a moral-absolute with no exceptions. Compare to the Mahayana position: There is a Mahayana story about the buddha killing in a past life, but not in the final existence as Gotama. The Buddha, in a past life as a ship's captain named Super Compassionate, discover...

I can't help but wonder what is the relationship between the articles written by the two venerables and Buddhism, except that the two are Buddhist monks? Ideally, the first precept is to be used to reduce or even eliminate speculating about moral and metaphysical issues. In fact, if this line of inq...

I think the dhammic perspective on science would always be incomplete unless the dhammic perspective on history is clarified. Modernity is defined in terms of embracing the laws of nature as known through empiricism, and letting go of a more ancient way of understanding phenomena as per the religiou...

What you call worldlings still demonstrate the dhamma even when they do not practice it as a path. For them, anatta manifest as "plausible deniability" through a measure of "reason". For example, birth as a condition of old age and death does not criminalize parents for the act o...

Samsara has no discoverable beginning = samsara has an infinite past. Infinity cannot be defined or 'found', if you are confused by this thats your problem not the Buddhas fault. There is no confusion from me. If infinity cannot be defined or found, then how did you find it? The dhamma is well spok...

This is what is stated. Of course if something truly has no beginning, one would only be able to say it had no discoverable beginning, since there would never be a possibility of 'reaching' to verify a non-existent first point. Only if there was a beginning would it be definitely confirmable. To co...