I believe the knowledge and vision of the variety of paths refers to the Buddha's unsurpassed knowledge of what paths lead to liberation, what paths do not, and why.

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Lucas Oliveira wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:02 am Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

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3 of the 29 links are not working. I'll email them.

Very interesting. I'm curious about the essays.

What exactly are the 37 factors of enlightenment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhipakkhiy%C4%81dhamm%C4%81 One of the Sri Lankan monks said that 37 factors are not one system of Path. According to him, there are seven paths of enlightenment that have been tabulated as the 37 factors of enlighten...

According to the absorbed view of Jhāna when one is secluded from the senses one is also secluded from desire. There is then an indescribable rapture and bliss which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought on the meditation object. After exiting this ecstatic god-like bliss one does not lus...

According to the absorbed view of Jhāna when one is secluded from the senses one is also secluded from desire. There is then an indescribable rapture and bliss which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought on the meditation object. After exiting this ecstatic god-like bliss one does not lus...

Anyone know how to go to 4th from 3rd? There is only awareness of blissfull sukha and contentment. Its like extreme blissfull existance without physical body. But to go to 4th should i focus on what? Conciousness/mind can move super fast like optic fibre lightibg and malleable after emerging from 3...

Btw, why are gay men not allowed to donate blood? It was to do with HIV and hepatitis B in the 80's, and a concern around new novel diseases which could occur in gay men due to a significant number of us practicing both unsafe sex and extreme sexual hedonism. Ok. Why is this restriction still in pl...

LOL!!! I welcome you, but there's no way that post isn't hilarious. If you would say that the racist republicans are trying to turn Obama's image into the antichrist, then that would be true. Fox (Propagandada) News has been poisoning american public discourse for too long. This nonsense is just to...

bpallister wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:48 am I’ve already informed them and don’t plan to lie again

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here's the thing tho. If i had told the truth (i lied on one question) i would have not been able to donate. so i want to donate to thin out my blood a little and to help other beings, but i cannot because i have been injecting some vitamin T and peptides--if i tell the truth. If the question is th...

I guess Viacch's idea can be adapted. One can argue 1. Any meaningful philosophy includes a logical system with sufficient complexity. It must be non-trivial and powerful. 2. Any such system, due to Gödel, will be incomplete, i.e. unable to determine if it is consistent (never leads to contradictio...