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Sat Dec 28, 2019 6:13 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Right way to cultivate samma sankappa?
Replies: 64
Views: 26015

Re: Right way to cultivate samma sankappa?

Happy new year to all! Here is my current understanding of the right way to cultivate right intention/thoughts: 1) Read the suttas (see the list below) to truly understand the drawback, danger and degradation of sensual desire/ill will/cruelty, and rewards of renunciation/good will/compassion+genero...
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Sun May 26, 2019 4:30 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: How to walk the Buddha's path: suttas and practice
Replies: 10
Views: 1899

How to walk the Buddha's path: suttas and practice

Hi friends, I'd appreciate your input on my understanding of the step by step gradual training laid out by the Buddha (SN45.1, MN 39, MN 125): 1) Obtain right right view: first mundane right view (the law of kamma), then supramundane right view (the four noble truths) (MN 117, MN 9); 2) Cultivate ri...
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Sun Oct 15, 2017 12:58 am
Forum: Non-English Resources
Topic: Chinese Language
Replies: 11
Views: 14424

Re: Chinese Language

Hi friends, here are the Chinese recordings of Dhammapada: http://www2.budaedu.org/ghosa/C008/T0579/ http://www2.budaedu.org/ghosa/C008/T0851/ I'm looking for Chinese recordings of suttas for my mom, who can barely read. Please share your findings here, which would be greatly appreciated. Metta to a...
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Sat Dec 24, 2016 5:50 pm
Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
Topic: Dana - suggested places to make donations
Replies: 78
Views: 177027

Re: Dana - suggested places to make donations

Hi friends, Merry Christmas and happy new year! You might know already that you can support your chosen charity when shopping at Amazon by using http://smile.amazon.com/ "The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases." May all of...
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Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:08 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Who can't become a monk or nun?
Replies: 15
Views: 9372

Re: Who can't become a monk or nun?

Hello friends, Happy New Year! I was away for quite a while. Nice to see that interesting discussions continue in this forum. I wonder if the following procedure is only specific to certain monastery or not. As I remember from the suttas, the Buddha didn't seem to have asked the 15 questions to orda...
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Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:59 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Nandī and nandati in MN 1: synonyms of taṇhā?
Replies: 4
Views: 3278

Re: Nandī and nandati in MN 1: synonyms of taṇhā?

Happy new year! Thanks for your contributions to the discussions. I've just come back to the forum and will read your posts(especially those new ones in my threads) in more details later. Frank: I found the following paragraph at Suttacentral: "Idaṃ kho pana, bhikkhave, duk­kha­sa­muda­yaṃ ariy...
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:49 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Yoniso manasikara: the suttas and the practice
Replies: 26
Views: 18749

Re: Yoniso manasikara: the suttas and the practice

Greetings! I'd like to add the suttas mentioning what should not be attended to, including those incomprehensibles: AN 4.77 Acintita Sutta: Unconjecturable http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html My personal understanding of "the realm of the Buddhas" (buddhavisaya) as an un...
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:29 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5
Replies: 3
Views: 1701

Re: The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5

Greetings! Just to add some relevant information I found on samānattatānaṃ: The Lalita, vistara parallel is samānârthatās [samāna (“equality”) + artha (“benefit, purpose”) + tā (“-ness”)]. The Sanskrit texts have samāna, sukha, duḥkatā, “share equally in joy and in sorrow”). Both support the Chinese...
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Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:21 pm
Forum: Study Group
Topic: A Systematic Study of the Majjhima Nikaya
Replies: 2
Views: 29045

Re: A Systematic Study of the Majjhima Nikaya

Greetings!

I happened to compare an older lecture and a recent lecture on MN 117 by Ven. Bodhi, and noticed significant change. So I thought it might be interesting for the readers to listen to his recent lectures on MN:

http://www.noblepath.org/audio.html

Metta to all!

:anjali:
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Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:57 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5
Replies: 3
Views: 1701

Re: The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5

Hi Mike, Thanks for the helpful input. Knowing now that "Samānattatā is a compound of “equal” (samāna) and “oneself” (attan)", and considering the context of this teaching and the other teachings concerning community living, it seems to me that "share equally with others" makes m...
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Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5
Replies: 3
Views: 1701

The translation of samānattatānaṃ in AN 9.5

Greetings! Thanks to the beneficial work of culaavuso and Unrul3r [The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha - Thematic Guide [http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=19931], I read the suttas "Sustaining wholesome relationships 4:32, 4:256, 8:24, 9:5". I'm wondering about the mea...
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Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:14 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The meaning of the Great Forty: MN 117 & its agama parallels
Replies: 6
Views: 4625

Re: The meaning of the Great Forty: MN 117 & its agama paral

What is the meaning of the Great Forty? What are the twenty factors on the side of the wholesome, and twenty factors on the side of the unwholesome? It seems to me that each of the two paths has ten factors on the side of the wholesome (right understanding, ... right deliverance) and ten factors on ...
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Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:54 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Nandī and nandati in MN 1: synonyms of taṇhā?
Replies: 4
Views: 3278

Nandī and nandati in MN 1: synonyms of taṇhā?

Greetings! From MN 1: "Tathāgatopi, bhikkhave, arahaṃ sammāsambuddho pathaviṃ pathavito abhijānāti; pathaviṃ pathavito abhiññāya pathaviṃ na maññati, pathaviyā na maññati, pathavito na maññati, pathaviṃ meti na maññati, pathaviṃ nābhi nandati . Taṃ kissa hetu? ‘Nandī dukkhassa mūlan’ti —iti vid...
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Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:55 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The meaning of the Great Forty: MN 117 & its agama parallels
Replies: 6
Views: 4625

The meaning of the Great Forty: MN 117 & its agama parallels

Greetings! I happen to read and compare MN 117 and its Chinese Agama parallel MA 189 and partial parallel SA 785 and SA 789 today, and would like to share the following: In MA 189 only one path with mundane right understanding and other mundane/supramundane path factors (a kind of a hybrid path, wit...
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Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:23 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Anapanasati Vs. jhana
Replies: 85
Views: 26504

Re: Anapanasati Vs. jhana

Greetings! Just to share my new understanding of the 16 steps of Ānāpānasati, which appear to be sequential. MN 118: “And how, bhikkhus, is mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated, so that it is of great fruit and great benefit? “Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree ...