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- Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: "Its like this"
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8997
Re: "Its like this"
Perhaps this refrain... I already addressed this above when I said "Maybe you mean that line 'free from desires & discontent'? Where does it support your claim that mindfulness alone accomplishes this?" But you didn't read this, or you chose not to answer the question. You simply quot...
- Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:09 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Can we keep "God" (Abrahamic religion) as the meditation object?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13734
Re: Can we keep "God" (Abrahamic religion) as the meditation object?
I still find it unlikely that they could reach what the Buddha called jhana by pondering the notion of the jealous, genocidal, highly confusing character that the Abrahamic religions call "God." What do you think, mr billings? What's odd is that you are forcing this hypothetical divinity-...
- Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:58 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Why smart people are better off with fewer friends
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3754
Re: Why smart people are better off with fewer friends
For a very large part of our evolutionary history we have lived in smallish, closely-related groups. It would be surprising if that hadn't shaped us to some extent. Of course. There's also the fact that resource scarcity brings people together in mutual support while resource excess leads to acquis...
- Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Poll: Belief in rebirth
- Replies: 143
- Views: 34962
Re: Poll: Belief in rebirth
This is also a component of my own "other" response.Lazy_eye wrote:Well, plausible answers to these questions have been provided by the natural and social sciences -- so it's not a situation where we have a big mystery that can only be explained by kamma.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: "Its like this"
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8997
Re: "Its like this"
Right mindfulness, as per the satipatthana sutta, includes putting aside unwholesome states of mind Nope. MN 10 doesn't have that, instead speaking of observation and acting with awareness. Maybe you mean that line 'free from desires & discontent'? Where does it support your claim that mindfuln...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the Dhamma purely utilitarian?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3648
Re: Is the Dhamma purely utilitarian?
He taught the rewards of virtue, giving and practicing dhamma; which all account to friends, beauty, wealth and heaven. Hmm. Where's this said? Perhaps you think AN 4.197 ? It's a misunderstanding, if so; otherwise, let's have your source. (You seem to be blaming the Buddha for the pre-existing ign...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the Dhamma purely utilitarian?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3648
Re: Is the Dhamma purely utilitarian?
I think the Buddha very much did reveal the path to wealth, success, friendship and beauty in the dhamma only to then reveal the evil inherent therein. This doesn't make sense to me; where did the Buddha promise friendship and wealth and beauty? He described the attraction, drawback, and escape in ...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:33 pm
- Forum: Suggestion box
- Topic: Darken Signature Border For Alternating Post Colours
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4113
Re: Darken Signature Border For Alternating Post Colours
I'm something of a computer idiot, so it's above my pay grade. This was just a bit of duct tape, as it were, to see if it could help for now.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 5:25 pm
- Forum: Suggestion box
- Topic: Darken Signature Border For Alternating Post Colours
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4113
Re: Darken Signature Border For Alternating Post Colours
I notice you added your own line; sufficient fix, do you think?
Instead of _, one could also use ▒ or ─ or ▬ or something.
Maybe I'll edit my own sig, see how it looks... yeah, not too bad with that wee bullet there.
Instead of _, one could also use ▒ or ─ or ▬ or something.
Maybe I'll edit my own sig, see how it looks... yeah, not too bad with that wee bullet there.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 2:34 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 2175
- Views: 525279
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:24 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
- Replies: 2175
- Views: 525279
Re: What music are you listening to right now?
Robert DeLong - Long Way Down
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Poll: Belief in rebirth
- Replies: 143
- Views: 34962
Re: Poll: Belief in rebirth
Well, SN 12.70 suggests that even with an understanding of DO, there's no personal confirmation of past lives or divine realms, only of dukkha-nirodha. This is a case of conviction, it seems to me; not even an arahant's attainment necessarily delivers knowledge of post-death states or past lives at ...
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:22 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Why smart people are better off with fewer friends
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3754
Re: Why smart people are better off with fewer friends
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847844 We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral consequences that affect individuals' life satisfaction and explains why such influences of ancestral conse...
- Fri Apr 22, 2016 7:58 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Buddhist Morality
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6046
Re: Buddhist Morality
Well, I can understand the devotional motive of "officially" going for refuge & taking five precepts (perhaps via chanting) in front of monastics, but it sounds like magic rituals, doesn't it, when the ritual itself is seen as cleansing something? Maybe I'm just misreading things, but ...
- Thu Apr 21, 2016 3:42 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: "Its like this"
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8997
Re: "Its like this"
I'll try to correct anything that I think contradicts the Buddha's teachings and that masquerades as wisdom wherever it rears its head, not where you tell me to. It's no contradiction; effort is one thing, mindfulness another. This mindfulness is only observation, while it's the goal of effort to a...