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by Heavenstorm
Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:09 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

I have listened but I have not seen any evidence of your understanding of emptiness on a meaningful level....... As many others in this thread already said for several times, you have not...........(been listening) i offered you the chance to express it since you seem to disagree with my understand...
by Heavenstorm
Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:00 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

How do you know they didnt? I already mentioned it in my previous post you quoted and you would have noticed it if you read it as a whole rather than separating them into portions. Perhaps if you put forward your understanding of emptiness and rebirth? Already did, no point in repeating the same ol...
by Heavenstorm
Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:17 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

Most Buddhists i have come accross, particularly in forums, take rebirth as central and wont hear about emptiness to any meaningful degree, i have stated that not all buddhists do this. To me when one understands emptiness one sees there is no rebirth, which is in agreement with what Buddhadasa tau...
by Heavenstorm
Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:45 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

Since you seem to defend rebirth as central, as supermundane then you should be able to answer these questions Nah, you continue to misrepresent me. I said that rebirth is part of the first noble truth which contains both the mundane and supramundane aspects. Why is rebirth called right view with T...
by Heavenstorm
Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:23 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

Please read my posts fully, i offer you that same respect, i have stated the buddha taught rebirth just not the kind you find in the abhidhamma. Do you speak for everyone? No but I speak for many people who believe that Abhidharma is the work of the Buddha. And I don’t agree with you that Buddha ta...
by Heavenstorm
Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:08 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

I hope you are not implying that I would use the illness of a Bhikkhu as an opurtunity to further some goal that you presume I have? I would say its a unfortunate coincidence. Whether you made of that is entirely your own decision. The argument that you are likey to use that rebirth is not eternali...
by Heavenstorm
Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:54 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: The Danger of Rebirth
Replies: 588
Views: 87255

Re: The Danger of Rebirth

It is quite irony that this discussion appears when Venerable Dhammanando is not with us. Anyway.......... Also it was taught as eternalism, you must look at who he was teaching it to when he taught it. It was to villagers, jains, new monks and brahmins, people who held the thought of self. IF he we...
by Heavenstorm
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:33 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Arahants Tears
Replies: 48
Views: 12402

Re: Arahants Tears

There are also tears of joy, tears of amazement Yes but the arahant would not engage in these, joy would be to delight which would kick dependent origination back into action and back into samsara and dukkha. You should read the article in the previous post, the Arahant talked about it. I read the ...
by Heavenstorm
Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:23 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Arahants Tears
Replies: 48
Views: 12402

Re: Arahants Tears

There are also tears of joy, tears of amazement............ Why don't you guys read the article pinned earlier by Elohim? It was from a famed Thai Arahant criticizing those ignorant people who think that Arahants never wept and out of ignorance, spreading lies and slandering the poor monk for doing ...
by Heavenstorm
Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:19 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mara
Replies: 13
Views: 5383

Re: Mara

Real being or manifestation of the defiled mind? Or both? In Buddhism, Māra is the demon who tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be his daughters. [1] In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the...
by Heavenstorm
Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:16 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: where did the mahayana come from
Replies: 37
Views: 16714

Re: where did the mahayana come from

For a start, the development of Mahayana was never a single movement or one event thingy as portrayed by some in this thread. It was a group of reactionary movements that span over centuries. So, the causes for the rising of Mahayana are numerous although they carry a similar motivation.
by Heavenstorm
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:56 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Arahants Tears
Replies: 48
Views: 12402

Re: Arahants Tears

clw_uk wrote:This is something that was raised in a different thread that I thought would be quite interesting to discuss.

Can/Would an Arahant Cry?
Yes, Arahant are still humans after all and as a result of their compassion arising from their enlightened state.
by Heavenstorm
Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:46 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: mind "inherently pure"?
Replies: 5
Views: 2264

Re: mind "inherently pure"?

All three made reference to the (I'm paraphrasing here due to the aforementioned stupidity) "inherent" or "natural" or "original" state of the mind as being pure and radiant. I had been going on the assumption that, from a Theravada point of view, there was no "in...
by Heavenstorm
Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:40 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Question about jhana
Replies: 5
Views: 2045

Re: Question about jhana

I was reading about the jhanas and have a vague memory, reading that one should develop jhanas in order, such that one can remain in one fully as long as one wants, before moving onto the next. Is this true? Devas/Brahmas of the form and formless realms can stay in the state of Jhanas for aeons and...
by Heavenstorm
Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Past lives
Replies: 23
Views: 7360

Re: Past lives

Forget about past lives, many of us can't even remember our childhood in details.