Some people in the no-self camp think this same way: "If you don't say there is no soul, this means you're saying there is a soul." Well, the targets of this "reasoning" do expose themselves eventually. Ven T's famous not-self strategy is supposed to point the way to the post-mo...

Huh?

Reasoning = argument = premises + conclusion (hopefully coupled with a logical operator for the conclusion to be derived logically from the premises).

Your example comes nowhere near to being an argument.

Anyone? What is your point? Absence of evidence is evidence of absence? I can't think of the fancy name for this particular fallacy you are applying. The Buddha didn't mention Flying Spaghetti monsters either... :anjali: Mike Hmm, is he saying - "If there is evidence, then the soul exists. The...

It might be useful to analyse the pericope in detail: So cakkhunā rūpaṃ disvā na nimittaggāhī hoti ­nānub­yañ­janag­gāhī. Yat­vādhika­ra­ṇa­menaṃ cakkhundriyaṃ asaṃvutaṃ viharantaṃ abhij­jhā­do­manassā pāpakā akusalā dhammā anvāssaveyyuṃ tassa saṃvarāya paṭipajjati, rakkhati cakkhundriyaṃ, cakkhund...

I don't think anyone is doubting the importance and relevance of teeth-gnashing, when one is desperate enough to reach for the last resort. I doubt the importance and relevance of teeth-clenching/toungue-pressing it to some extent. Personally, I have never found it to be effective. I find breath-ob...

Could you explain your points pls? I can't follow.

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Hi L.N.

I don't think anyone is doubting the importance and relevance of teeth-gnashing, when one is desperate enough to reach for the last resort.

But the question remains - is that the establishment of mindfulness?

As far as watching, it is better to watch a good thing, than a bad one.[ The process is the same; but with less dukkha. And you will see them "better" and "truer", (if there are no hindrances,) say the suttas. So maybe for some people, there will be a little (or a lot of) aversi...

:woohoo: Again that assumption that "I don't uderstand the grammar of the suttas"; Well, my "woohoo" was not an indictment of your grasp of grammar, but of your eel-wriggling. But on the subject of grammar, didn't you yourself concede this - and picking on me, on the fact that I...

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L.N. wrote:Sad to see the discussion going south.

Mea culpa.

Hello all, What does yoniso manasikara and ayoniso manasikara mean? In Ayoniso manasikara Sutta (SN 9.11), it says: Thoughts of sensuality, thoughts of ill will, thoughts of doing harm http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn09/sn09.011.than.html But I've also read ayoniso manasikara means bel...

You poor thing. If nit-picking on a missed "full" is your strategy to evade a fulsome discussion of your silly confusion of a substantive noun for an adjective, then that speaks volumes of you. :woohoo: The poor thing is not nit-picking. It is just that this "coincidental" ***&q...

You poor thing. If nit-picking on a missed "full" is your strategy to evade a fulsome discussion of your silly confusion of a substantive noun for an adjective, then that speaks volumes of you.

Its not 'hidden'. But similarly, its not a 'violation' of orthodox anattā-teachings either, English or Old-World. For some reason plenty of English Buddhist learners acquire a polemical bias against Abhidhammic teachings without even knowing what they are, simply on the basis that they aren't the o...