Greetings abhinav1, Hello dear Dhamma friends, I am studying the Buddha's teachings on Dependent Origination (right now reading Mn 38 - Longer Discourse on Ending of Craving) but I am not able to get my head past one thing - what is the first starting point in the chain of dependent origination? Bud...

Greetings, The thing touched is the thing touched. Still a dhamma, for SN 35.68: Wherever, Samiddhi, there is the eye, the visible forms, the visual consciousness and the things perceptible with the visual consciousness, there is a world or a concept of a world. Wherever there is the ear... nose... ...

Greetings, Aye, 'tis. There's very little room for so-called "mahākaruṇā" on the part of the Buddhas in the buddhology you are outlining. They have only rapture and equanimity in their range of emotional experience, according to your recent post. I was surprised to see compassion left off ...

Greetings, Afaik the Buddha didn't provide much detail on the day to day workings and etiquette at a forest monastery, which is what Ajahn is talking about here, of course following the Buddhas teaching is a given. What is clear is that practising according to the suttas and vinaya involves living i...

Greetings Sarath,

SarathW wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:09 pm However, there is a Sutta a monk who left Buddha and went to the forest at the wrong time to do so.

I think from memory that was because he wasn't yet adequately skilled in mental cultivation. Unlikely to be the case here.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings Peter,

You are non-sequitur and ridiculous.

Please try harder.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings Peter,

What you experience and what you touch are not one and the same thing.

Your experience is your experience.

The thing touched is the thing touched.

Why do you conflate the two?

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings, I respect what he's doing personally, as far as his own path goes, and have outlined my reasons for that above. I cannot help but wonder though if his devotion is too tightly attached to his teacher, their lineage and their legacy. I say this because if I ordained and became a bhikkhu, I ...

Greetings Apapurati, Wise words. After listening again and some reflection on this situation, the desires and complaints, I can see what has happened to Ajahn Martin. :( I got the sense that the length of his litany of "complaints" had less to do with him needing to vent them (which would ...

Greetings appamaada , It's a great relief that I've spent what seems like barely any time with traditional Abhidhamma. Just brief run-ins with people into Goenka and Mahasi-type stuff, as well as breath-focusing. :D In that context, one of Nanavira Thera's footnotes in the Preface to Notes On Dhamma...

Greetings appamaada, It's a very interesting perspective you're taking here. It's my contention that understanding how any two components of paticcasamuppada relate to each other is enough to clarify the principle of idappaccayata (refer to MN 9 for this -- right view can be understood as seeing the...

Greetings, It's this phenomenon, craving, that we want to watch out for. True to a point, and probably more than sufficient when you're not in formal meditation, but if you've already gotten to "tanha", then how much of paticcasamuppada has already slipped you by without due attention and ...

Greetings, The following Sutta, in its entirely seems relevant, so I'm going to share it (with a bit of highlighting for emphasis). At Savatthi. There the Blessed One said, "I tell you, monks: It is for one who knows & sees that there is the ending of the effluents. For one who knows what &...

Greetings Mike, Interesting topic. Is it the case that certain approaches or interpretations are aDhammic, or are participants just arguing about their preferred interpretation of the suttas (or other texts) and approach to practice? Personally, I think "aDhammic" is probably too tight a l...

Greetings Mystik,

It's a good point. I think a lot of people gravitate towards the Dhamma as a means of hiding from past trauma, and I don't think that's restricted to monks either.

Metta,
Paul.