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by Bundokji
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
Replies: 73
Views: 3760

Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed

There are many Muslim clergy nowadays attacking eastern spiritualities and linking them to new age movements and other heretics. Some consider them demonic altogether. Nowadays? :thinking: Yes, with the increase of Yoga centers and YouTube channels in Arabic that promote new-age-inspired spiritual ...
by Bundokji
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Hot Topics
Topic: masturbation what's wrong?
Replies: 615
Views: 274477

Re: Pornography, Masturbation and Sex Addiction - Dharma helped?

Now I live the first time in my life celibate since 32 days. That seemed really impossible (!!) for me, before that moment I watched the video. ... I am not kidding: I never felt so good like in these days. In this month I was thinking a lot about my past. I had a lot of bad experiences in relation...
by Bundokji
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Is hair spiritual?
Replies: 8
Views: 222

Re: Is hair spiritual?

Hair is rather legislative than spiritual, by virtue of the law of sequences. When the 31 body parts are taught, kesa (head hair) and loma (body hair) are listed first, and they belong to taca pañcaka.Their legislative nature makes pubic hair a sign of puberty - deeming the khandhas subject to the l...
by Bundokji
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhist Asceticism and the first council
Replies: 8
Views: 258

Re: Buddhist Asceticism and the first council

The above is Most probably from your papanca. Try to find connection that is not there. I found this in wikipedia: Buddhologist Jean Przyluski (1885–1944) argued that the earliest accounts placed Kauṇḍinya at the head of the saṃgha, and that originally, Mahākāśyapa was a conventional figure, with n...
by Bundokji
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:20 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhist Asceticism and the first council
Replies: 8
Views: 258

Re: Buddhist Asceticism and the first council

What is the diffrence between the above two? Please give an example What is the Pali word for them as well please? In the first sermon, where the Buddha taught the majjhimā paṭipadā, self-mortification is referred to as attakilamathānuyogo. When i searched for asceticism, i found dhutaṅga. I am not...
by Bundokji
Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:50 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Buddhist Asceticism and the first council
Replies: 8
Views: 258

Buddhist Asceticism and the first council

Venerables and friends, It is said that one of the indispensable duties of Buddhas is to give a first sermon. In the Buddha's first sermon, he taught: yo cāyaṁ: attakilamathānuyogo, and this: devotion to self-mortification, dukkho, anariyo, anatthasaṁhito. which is painful, ignoble, and not connecte...
by Bundokji
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:28 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
Replies: 73
Views: 3760

Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed

There are many Muslim clergy nowadays attacking eastern spiritualities and linking them to new age movements and other heretics. Some consider them demonic altogether.
by Bundokji
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

sphairos wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:29 pm Ok, I see that it's hopeless, so I quit this "discussion".
Thank you for contributing. You do not consider the dhamma as a religion anyways.
by Bundokji
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

I don't know why you keep doing this -- you were wrong, I pointed that out. Parā doesn't mean or imply "other; another; foreign; alien; outsider, the opposite shore; the other side" like you had thought. Instead of standing corrected you are trying to tell me that there is no difference, ...
by Bundokji
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

I fail to see what difference that would make. The whole business of meta-physics depends on similar connotations. Yes, you fail to see, but it makes fundamental difference. Parā is not semantically connected to para in any way, and doesn't have to do with meta-physics, para-psychology or else. The...
by Bundokji
Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

If we examine the prefix Para, it means other; another; foreign; alien; outsider, the opposite shore; the other side. In MN117, para loka is mentioned in the description of mundane right view: ‘Atthi dinnaṁ, atthi yiṭṭhaṁ, atthi hutaṁ, atthi sukatadukkaṭānaṁ kammānaṁ phalaṁ vipāko, atthi ayaṁ loko,...
by Bundokji
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:36 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

If we examine the prefix Para, it means other; another; foreign; alien; outsider, the opposite shore; the other side. In MN117, para loka is mentioned in the description of mundane right view: ‘Atthi dinnaṁ, atthi yiṭṭhaṁ, atthi hutaṁ, atthi sukatadukkaṭānaṁ kammānaṁ phalaṁ vipāko, atthi ayaṁ loko, ...
by Bundokji
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

.......... Thank you for your input :anjali: Maybe we are approaching this differently. Your approach is to compare the use of parāmāsa in different dictionaries, whereas my approach has been examining how parāmāsa as "contagion" fits with the rest of the teachings - without overlooking o...
by Bundokji
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:25 am
Forum: Sīla
Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
Replies: 42
Views: 834

Re: sīlabbata parāmāsa

Pondera wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:23 am Well. Who among us hasn’t thought we were Christ on one or more occasions? :tongue:
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