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- Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:08 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7789
Re: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
if you download things on university servers you might have problems.
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:18 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7789
Re: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
Blackbird, your argument goes something as follows: Suppose someone A has regular access to the internet. Suppose someone B doesn't. A references copyrighted texts online without downloading. B references copyrighted texts, the same amount of time etc., offline by downloading them. You would claim t...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:19 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: What do you sit on?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8293
Re: What do you sit on?
chairs
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:32 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Practicing Celibacy - Advice needed
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8846
Re: Practicing Celibacy - Advice needed
So you're not ready to ordain, but are ready to abstain from the orgasm. How long have you done that before, if you don't mind my asking? Do you have a teacher that practices brahmacariya and supports you in cultivating it?
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:24 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Zizek on Buddhism
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2048
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:20 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
I'm also interested in correlations between citta in the thai forest tradition and certain formulations of buddha nature. I've heard a buddhist scholar simply equate the two (my aunt's son who wrote http://www.amazon.com/dp/019537519X told my this in person when i asked him). However, I'd also like ...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:12 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7789
Re: Downloading books you have had physical copies of
the dhamma should always be free.
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 4:43 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Practicing Celibacy - Advice needed
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8846
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:01 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
Is the nibbana element in any way comparable to other elements (dhatu)?
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:56 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
Could you possibly give, etymologically or otherwise, a breakdown on the word "element" here?
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:37 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
Of course, we couldn't be having this conversation without (impersonal) consciousness.
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:15 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
In my eyes transcendental implies some sort of existence That's why I called it "effectively transcendental". The only possible sense in which the world of becoming could stop becoming, as it were, is if somehow consciousness (first person, qualitative, subjective experience) does not ari...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:00 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
If the five aggregates cease and don't reappear in a next life, then parinibbana must be effectively transcendental.
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:55 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
To say "one is not reborn again" entails what exactly, in reference to the five aggregates?
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:22 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Ontology of Nibbana
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6790
Re: Ontology of Nibbana
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.htmlalso don't forget the difference between nibbana-while-alive and nibbana-after-death
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And yet, "(s)he will not be born again"; in what sense exactly?