Did you have something specific in mind?It find support in the suttas.
Search found 516 matches
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:49 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6791
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:39 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6791
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
Dan, I think it's a reasonable guess and I'd tend to agree with that interpretation. I think people like Ajahn Chah and Buddhadasa would too. I'm not sure you have the consensus of other Theravada authorities; in the western world, which is all I can recall off the top of my head, e.g. Bodhi and Tha...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:08 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Zizek on Buddhism
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2049
Zizek on Buddhism
Although "Western Buddhism" presents itself as the remedy against the stressful tension of the capitalist dynamics, allowing us to uncouple and retain the inner peace and Gelassenheit, it actually functions as its perfect ideological supplement. One should mention here the well-known topi...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:11 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6791
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
Thanks for the links. Chris, I can't read the responses if there are any. I know Thanissaro maintains that non-dual positions, regarding the distinction between samsara and nibbana, are unfounded in the tipitaka. Of course, there is no positive articulation of this sort of non-dualism in the canon. ...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:55 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6791
Ontology of Nibbana
Are there grounds in the tipitaka to attribute to nibbana some transcendental (non-immanent) status?
- Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:58 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Upcoming College Grad Looking for Advice on Jobs/Moving
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5583
Re: Upcoming College Grad Looking for Advice on Jobs/Moving
move to asia, teach english, take time off, travel, live in monasteries etc. that's what i do/will do for a while. there's always funded post-grad work.
u could get an m.a. or something in ling (applied ling?) and teach in the universities in asia (and get more $)
u could get an m.a. or something in ling (applied ling?) and teach in the universities in asia (and get more $)
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:56 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: northeast thailand
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1261
Re: northeast thailand
do you know any that you can just show up to, that have white clothes and everything?
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditation techniques used in Thai Theravada
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3516
Re: Meditation techniques used in Thai Theravada
To have the defilements gradually disappear with the method I've just explained is better than trying to arrange things, entering the four levels of absorption, abandoning directed thought, evaluation, rapture and pleasure, leaving just one-pointedness and equanimity; or trying to arrange the first...
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditation techniques used in Thai Theravada
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3516
Re: Meditation techniques used in Thai Theravada
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/ i've always liked ajahn lee (since visiting wat metta), but a monk in ajahn mun/chah lineage monastery recommended this guy and said he'd teach me from one of these if i came back. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/thate/stepsalong.html http://www.acces...
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:11 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: northeast thailand
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1261
northeast thailand
does anyone have monastery retreat recommendations in northeast thailand and/or laos or cambodia (i'm in northern laos making my way slowly to vientiane)?
- Wed May 22, 2013 9:39 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist ideas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3636
Re: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist idea
i wasn't generalizing on mahayana as a whole.
- Wed May 22, 2013 4:54 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What role do "mystical experiences" play in practice?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5259
Re: What role do "mystical experiences" play in practice?
it's all dhamma
- Wed May 22, 2013 4:37 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist ideas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3636
Re: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist idea
what i like best about mahayana is its rejection of ontology i.e. metaphysics. the section on attamayata is great. i'd check the index to see what's interesting to you. metta
- Wed May 22, 2013 1:44 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Forest Monastery in Virginia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4263
Re: Forest Monastery in Virginia
now there's two great monks in virginia of all places.
edit: i guess bhavana society is west virginia
edit: i guess bhavana society is west virginia
- Wed May 22, 2013 1:42 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist ideas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3636
Re: Mahayana ontology:skillful means for early Buddhist idea
i think you might enjoy this book
https://www.abhayagiri.org/books/the-island
https://www.abhayagiri.org/books/the-island