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by daverupa
Tue May 03, 2016 11:56 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
Replies: 83
Views: 18624

Re: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept

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Well, sorry to bother y'all.
by daverupa
Tue May 03, 2016 10:35 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept
Replies: 83
Views: 18624

Re: Coffee, Chocolate and the 5th Precept

...in a way, you could say that large doses of caffeine would have very similar effects as low doses of methamphetamine, or other drugs in the same category. This is absurd. Coffee has an effect, but so does sugar. You haven't demonstrated that it leads to heedlessness in the way that alcohol consu...
by daverupa
Tue May 03, 2016 3:07 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Precepts for Personal Practice
Replies: 29
Views: 6062

Re: Precepts for Personal Practice

It looks like various expansions on the 8 precepts alongside some pro-social specifics & other bhavana tidbits. But why set out a list of specifics, except to provide examples? Why not establish mindfulness & clear comprehension as general orientations, and practice creative application of S...
by daverupa
Mon May 02, 2016 10:31 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda
Replies: 403
Views: 77447

Re: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda

Are we talking about contact or feeling? It doesn't matter, since the arahant experiences both as a set of aggregates which are not clung to. When there is experience for the arahat, those things that used to be self are still there and what used to be contact is there as well, but it no longer bet...
by daverupa
Mon May 02, 2016 7:07 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda
Replies: 403
Views: 77447

Re: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda

I'm trying to figure out what this timelessness claim is meant to support. It's got to be something important to warrant this ongoing defense, but I can't see what the point is.
by daverupa
Mon May 02, 2016 6:58 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda
Replies: 403
Views: 77447

Re: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda

So, if an arahant experiences contacts, sometimes pleasant & sometimes painful & sometimes neutral, how can we say that "the paticcasamuppada" for an arahant is timeless? Because, sometimes there is one sort of feeling, sometimes another sort of feeling. Some times - not timeless a...
by daverupa
Mon May 02, 2016 6:45 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda
Replies: 403
Views: 77447

Re: Timeless model of Paṭiccasamuppāda

Just wondering about something I would not consider any aspect of an arahant's experience to be contact because, when I also read He understands thus: ‘Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.’ “If he feels a ...
by daverupa
Mon May 02, 2016 9:19 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?
Replies: 65
Views: 15852

Re: Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?

vinasp wrote: Perhaps I don't really understand what your question is.
Annihilationism in the Suttas. Find citations & contexts. Or not. Thank you.
by daverupa
Sun May 01, 2016 11:51 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?
Replies: 65
Views: 15852

Re: Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?

I think that Wanderers decide to join the Sangha because they are impressed by the Buddha or his Disciples, and by the quality of the teachings. Sure, any aspect of the Triple Gem will attract them if they are attracted to Buddhism... There is no 'conversion' in the sense that they have to change t...
by daverupa
Sun May 01, 2016 11:59 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?
Replies: 65
Views: 15852

Where are the post-annihilationist monastics?

I decided that this was probably a very useful question to follow up on. First: (8) “Bhikkhus, of the speculative views held by outsiders, this is the foremost, namely: ‘I might not be and it might not be mine; I shall not be, and it will not be mine.’ For it can be expected that one who holds such ...
by daverupa
Sun May 01, 2016 11:37 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to right now?
Replies: 2178
Views: 526733

Re: What music are you listening to right now?

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by daverupa
Sun May 01, 2016 2:04 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Goal of the path: "nirvana" vs "nirodha"?
Replies: 58
Views: 17170

Re: Goal of the path: "nirvana" vs "nirodha"?

Lazy_eye wrote:Is there some slight disagreement here as to whether existence exists?
I bet it's a case where the term 'existence' as 'permanence' is being thought about & argued, where 'existence' as 'currently-steady-state' (what we might call 'change-while-standing') is all that it needs to mean.
by daverupa
Sat Apr 30, 2016 1:29 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: just a quick chess game
Replies: 5
Views: 1796

Re: just a quick chess game

1.d4 d5 2.b3 Nf6 3.Bb2 e6 4.a3 c5 5.e3 cxd4 6.exd4 Be7 7.c4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 O-O 9.Nf3 Ne4 10.Nbd2 Nxd2 11.Qxd2 Nc6 12.O-O a6 13.b4 b5 14.Be2 Bf6 15.Qd1 a5 16.Bxb5 Na7 17.Be2 axb4 18.axb4 Bb7 19.Ne5 Bxe5 20.dxe5 Nc6 21.Qxd8 Rfxd8 22.Rxa8 Bxa8 23.Bf3 Nxb4 24.Bxa8 Rxa8 25.Bc3 Nc6 26.Ra1 Rxa1+ 27.Bxa1 g6 28...
by daverupa
Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:18 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Meditation traditions?
Replies: 7
Views: 2768

Re: Meditation traditions?

Most of the stuff you're hearing about is based on the Vipassana movement; this movement is a category within Buddhist meditation generally.
by daverupa
Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:11 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Goal of the path: "nirvana" vs "nirodha"?
Replies: 58
Views: 17170

Re: Goal of the path: "nirvana" vs "nirodha"?

PSS: Actually this view that "dhammas" have no real essense has lead Mahayanists to a view, that there is no need to leave samsara, we just need to "cleanse" our view of it, and thus we'll find ourselves in nibbana (which is samsara in Buddha's view). From here > Eternal Buddha'...