If you practiced it and realized you might say this.SamKR wrote:Can we safely say that Malunkyaputta Sutta and Bahiya Sutta represent the most direct -- and the briefest -- essence or core of the high-level-teachings of the Buddha that could be practiced to realize nibbana?
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- Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:21 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Essence of the Buddha's teachings?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8784
Re: Essence of the Buddha's teachings?
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:24 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddha can't help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6864
Re: Buddha can't help
And then you may also have compassion with yourself and consider yourself to be like a little child. If this little child wants to pray, hey why not let it pray? If it helps and the child feels better then let it have its way. This may foster your capacity for metta and compassion towards others and...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddha can't help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6864
Re: Buddha can't help
But do you think there are many level of practice? Obviously the self-reliance one is the most advanced and hardest one IMO. Self reliance in the context of knowing the merely dependent arising of the sense of self is the most efficient way. Self reliance in the context of taking the merely depende...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Buddha can't help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6864
Re: Buddha can't help
That is actually the main practice in other traditions but it seems to be a general human mode of dealing with certain cicumstances.Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:We just need to be inspired by the example set by wise and good beings, and try to emulate them.
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:04 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Energy(?) in the Temple
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2548
Re: Energy(?) in the Temple
Compare with the enery at different places at different times. You may find even higher energies at places you did not expect.
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:31 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What are we ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2626
Re: What are we ?
What produces these forms "What are we ?" ?
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:51 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Mahayanists and the historical record
- Replies: 73
- Views: 19180
Re: Mahayanists and the historical record
Is the literal word of the Buddha just not that important in Mahayana? What appears as "word of the Buddha" or not arises depending on belief, i.e. consciousness affirming itself. In that there is no difference between Mahayana conditioned consciousness and Theravada conditioned conscious...
- Sun Apr 07, 2013 5:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Where does my actions on self go ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2191
Re: Where does my actions on self go ?
if so how can i put so much time and effort in and still no increase in mindfulness where is the cause and effect here ? Causes/conditions may be: not dealing with "I" and "mine" resulting in wanting/effort in the context of "I" and "mine" resulting in percei...
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:36 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Avoiding subject-object modes of perception
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1385
Re: Avoiding subject-object modes of perception
Greetings, Spawning once more from the Aggregate? topic... This assumes that subject-object modes of perception are inherently misleading. They are, because they inherently entail an artificial dissection of the two. What there is, is what is present. No need to extrapolate beyond that. What is aff...
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:14 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Avoiding subject-object modes of perception
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1385
Re: Avoiding subject-object modes of perception
How do you, in practice endeavour to avoid discerning experience wrongly as either "I"/"self" (subject) or "mine" (object)? As soon as intention to avoid appears it is recognized and dropped. As soon as intention to follow an ideal of "right" appears it is re...
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:45 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Individual truth
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1087
Re: Individual truth
“When we transcend one level of truth, the new level becomes what is true for us. The previous one is now false. ... I 'd prefer the wording "one truth transcended, all truths transcended." which seems not to comply with the quoted. “Ven. Nāgārjuna was right: at the end, all is empty....
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:52 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is it possible for practising Buddhists to have fun?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 12465
Re: Is it possible for practising Buddhists to have fun?
Is it possible for practising Buddhists to have fun ? I'd be interested in reading other peoples comments about this. Actually buddhism can be great fun, but something that can be fun is not necessarily experienced as fun. E.g. some people can laught about themselves and others can not. Why is this...
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:34 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What motivates Arahant?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 14684
Re: What motivates Arahant?
But why can't arahants eat after their enlightenment? Arahant has no perception of " I, me, mine " so how can he know that " I am hungry and I need to eat or I will die ". This is what I wonder. But how can you know what another, arahat or not, is thinking? Who instilled all the...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:24 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: What motivates Arahant?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 14684
Re: What motivates Arahant?
Hello all, If Arahant has no self view, no perception of self, no greed, anger or delusion, then why does Arahant eat or do anything? :?: Arahant has no craving to prolong or protect the existence of his body. When Arahant walks somewhere, why does s/he avoid walking off the cliff? Arahant isn't su...
- Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:20 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Bad thoughts = Bad Karma?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7530
Re: Bad thoughts = Bad Karma?
Yeah, that's the reason for buddhism in a privileged part of the world too.Digity wrote:... I live in a privileged part of the world, have a good life and I spend my time mulling over what so-and-so said. ...