The line "but decide not to prevent them" is self contradictory because no harm is done by self. Sorry, I can't understand this. Do you mean that the idea of deciding not to prevent killing is self-contradictory? It’s not. Or do you mean that the idea of deciding not to prevent killing co...

As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=...

.. AN 4.232: https://suttacentral.net/an4.232/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin and MN 57: https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false...

As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=...

I really like Rhys Davids' explanatory footnote to the correct answer to the question asked by Sāriputta: the idea that "All beings are sustained by food". (Especially as it refers to a Dhp verse that I am currently stuying via Zoom with some friends.) Well, yes, as RD makes clear, there ...

But without knowing the intended meaning, how can people comment? What exact does it refer to? What sutta is it supposedly from? These questions will need to be answered first. Feel free to comment, but I was only asking for the sutta, if people could recall it. :anjali: As far as I think the appro...

From where did this terminology even start? What does this mean? AN 4.232: https://suttacentral.net/an4.232/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin and MN 57: https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=lineby...

Another request for help in finding a sutta. I recently heard someone talking about a sutta in which someone asks what is beyond, or on the far side of, compassion (and possible the other brahmaviharas?) I remember reading something like this some time ago. Can anyone recall it, please? But without...

What does "the far side of compassion" mean? And how, bhikkhus, is the liberation of the mind by compassion developed? What does it have as its destination, its culmination, its fruit, its final goal? Bhikkhus, the liberation of mind by compassion has the base of the infinity of space as ...

Neo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:14 am

dhammapal wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:34 am
..partly this is because, as the Buddha says, the reason we’re able to lust for other people’s bodies is because we have a strong attraction to our own bodies.
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In which sutta is this mentioned?

AN 7.48: Saññoga Sutta.

However the Corruptor or the Assasin were feel encourage to corrupt more money or kill more people due to the Monks ignorance? That would be an odd situation; people devoted to the Sangha and so committed to their upkeep that they were prepared to breach the lay precepts in the grossest imaginable ...

Hmmm, "there should be no like and dislike" ... is it means that the monks does not care how the person get the money to donate food/robe? Do they allowed a corruptor to corrupt more money just to be able to donate to the Sangha? Or they allowed a assasin to assasinate more people to get ...

It appears this is in the commentary Empathy, compassion, has it dangers. In the commentaries on the Brahma Viharas, it is said that each of the four has two “enemies”—a near enemy and a far enemy. The far enemy is the opposite mental state which challenges our practice. The near enemy resembles th...

Another request for help in finding a sutta. I recently heard someone talking about a sutta in which someone asks what is beyond, or on the far side of, compassion (and possible the other brahmaviharas?) I remember reading something like this some time ago. Can anyone recall it, please?

I really like Rhys Davids' explanatory footnote to the correct answer to the question asked by Sāriputta: the idea that "All beings are sustained by food". (Especially as it refers to a Dhp verse that I am currently stuying via Zoom with some friends.) Well, yes, as RD makes clear, there a...