Is there mention of a path 'attainment' in the suttas? Yes, the verb is maggam paṭilabhati . The post from Sakyan gives an example of it as a past participle: Dhammo ca me, bhante, abhisamito, maggo ca me paṭiladdho. "I made a breakthrough to the Dhamma, bhante, and the path was obtained by me...

Am I a Sotapanna? If you are asking if it can be inferred from your past breaches of the first precept that you are now a sotāpanna, then no, no such inference can be drawn. If you are asking if it can be inferred from your past breaches of the first precept that you are not now a sotāpanna, then a...

Ontheway wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:55 pm
I don't subscribe to Scribd.
I will try finding an alternative way.

Thanks.

https://archive.org/details/PaliComment ... 3/mode/2up

Dan74 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:38 pm The William James story is apocryphal, it seems.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/28/hogamous/

Ah, what a shame.

Hi Sam Vara,

Your second link is to the Swedish-only version. Here's the one with English subtitles:

My question was whether an icelander can be a sotapanna by killing and eating fish out of necessity to appease hunger. That is the only food they have, with the question , is it misconduct. Having lived for a decade in Iceland I can assure you it's quite possible to get by there without killing or ...

I can kill, so obviously the sotapanna can kill. [...] Does this sound reasonable? No, I'm afraid not. "Reasonable" to me would be something like this ... Abstention from killing living beings is something dear to ariyans. One to whom it is not dear is not an ariyan. One who both kills an...

As I said, one of the tricky things with psychedelics is that they impair your cognitive function. So, while on them and under their spell, they seem like they're doing a lot that they simply aren't. :thumbsup: Hans Eysenck on William James's experiments with mescaline: Experimenting with various m...

Bhante D, stated the sotapanna had perfect precepts and then that a Sita would confess if needed be. I’m questioning if perfect in precepts what could possibly warrant confession? What I stated is that, firstly, according to the suttas a sotāpanna possesses "the sila that is dear to ariyans&qu...

There is another sutta referenced in the video: the Buddha tells a brahmin that the reason for not remembering what was memorized in the past was restlessness and remorse. That's the Sangāravasutta. https://suttacentral.net/sn46.55/en/bodhi I'm not sure if the venerable is using standard translatio...

I am trying to find the suttas he references in the video. Particularly the one that includes "There is calm of the body, and there is calm of the mind". Does anyone know where this is found? I haven't watched the video, but if he's referring to kāyapassaddhi and cittapassaddhi then one s...

That being said, I think you would have a hard time finding an Eastern Orthodox priest who would tell you that hell's just a state of mind. Not that hard, I think. For example, here's Bishop Kallistos Ware, an Anglican convert to Greek Orthodoxy: As we noted when citing St Isaac the Syrian, hell is...

Then can you translate this pali. Maybe we can understand the meaning better. Ācikkha dhammaṁ yamahaṁ vijaññaṁ, Jātijarāya idha vippahānaṁ”. “Taṇhādhipanne manuje pekkhamāno, Santāpajāte jarasā parete; Tasmā tuvaṁ piṅgiya appamatto, Jahassu taṇhaṁ apunabbhavāyā”ti. I don't think I can improve on Bh...

Nice catch. I tried to translate the last part, maybe more inline with dhamma. Human beings are attracted by tanha (craving) due their intention (mano mind), Tormented by birth, old age on the near shore, Therefore, Piṅgiya don’t be negligent, Give up tanha (craving), no further being/existence. Gu...

I have wondered about this placing of the pure abodes, and would generally agree on the heirarchy of purity. To me the pure abodes are the highest Deva realms as they are not within the cycle of samsara. It seems to me that the Suddhāvāsas are part of samsāra. For example, the fifth type of anāgāmi...