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- 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 ...
- 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...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2471
Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
An impersonal divine cosmic order is more inline with deism and pantheism than with the dhamma.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
- Replies: 42
- Views: 834
- 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, ...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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, ...
- 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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:25 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: sīlabbata parāmāsa
- Replies: 42
- Views: 834