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by Bakmoon
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:21 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: According to the commentary tradition, is supramundane consciousness conditioned?
Replies: 41
Views: 8075

Re: According to the commentary tradition, is supramundane consciousness conditioned?

Technically, however, nibbana is classified as a form of consciousness (nama). It, however, is not the type of consciousness that a person has. It is neither citta nor cetasika. It does not know anything (does not cognize anything) itself. It is an object (aramana) of citta and cetasika. Virg02 No,...
by Bakmoon
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:09 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Will Bhikkhu Bodhi be translating the entire Khuddaka Nikaya?
Replies: 6
Views: 2227

Re: Will Bhikkhu Bodhi be translating the entire Khuddaka Nikaya?

I'm not sure, but I suspect he would probably go after the main early portions, at least at first. These are texts such as the Khudakkapatha, Dhammapada, Udana, Sutta Nipatta, Itivuttaka, etc... There are much larger technical works in the Khuddaka Nikaya such as the Niddesa and the Patisambhidamagg...
by Bakmoon
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:02 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Why monks cannot urinate while standing?
Replies: 7
Views: 3071

Re: Why monks cannot urinate while standing?

Because it's ugly behaviour. Yes, any monk who has been trained properly still observes this training rule. Thanks Bhante. But I really don't understand how ugly it is. :shock: Remember that Monks don't wear trousers, but wrap their underobe around them. You can't exactly discretely go through a fl...
by Bakmoon
Tue Jan 17, 2017 2:37 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Theravāda & Nāgārjuna
Replies: 236
Views: 41637

Re: Theravāda & Nāgārjuna

I don't recall a reference to the Cula-suññata Sutta being posted in the thread so far, but apologies if it has. These passages are taken from the end of the sutta, and I think this represents the early Buddhist position on emptiness quite definitively, particularly from a practice point of view. &...
by Bakmoon
Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:45 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and listening to discourses] (explained) -

On the contrary, they mention this very often. I did not take my time to number how many times this happens but it happens very often. And all the time it happens in the same way. As this topic has shown, there is not a single instance where somebody achieves it in different way than through listen...
by Bakmoon
Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:51 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and listening to discourses] (explained) -

How do you know that these people all attained stream entry by contemplating the meaning of what they heard rather than by meditation practice? What makes you speculate they did it through meditation practice ? Did you ever hear "the person started meditating and then understood the discourse&...
by Bakmoon
Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:33 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Most common blindspot of buddhist practitioners ?
Replies: 18
Views: 4722

Re: Most common blindspot of buddhist practitioners ?

I put down 'other' as I think the biggest problem most practitioners have is laziness. It's so easy for us to allow ourselves to become complacent in our practice thinking we keep the precepts, are nice to people, we have read some of the Buddha's teachings, and we meditate regularly, and fail to as...
by Bakmoon
Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:58 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and listening to discourses] (explained) -

How can you possibly ask me for that when everybody from A to Z achieved stream entry after hearing a discourse ? There are like 100+ suttas, you want me to start quoting them all ? You know, all those suttas ending with "after hearing this discourse, 10 bhikkhus attained stream entry". T...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:38 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and listening to discourses] (explained) -

I have answered many question. It is my time to ask a question. How did that sadistic serial criminal achieve stream entry after just a couple of days of instruction ? To say nothing about the million other normal people who achieved it in the same way. Basically everybody in the pali canon achieve...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:34 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and listening to discourses] (explained) -

... Here's an even more explicit sutta which contradicts your interpretation. SN 55.5 “Sāriputta, this is said: ‘A stream-enterer, a stream- enterer.’ What now, Sāriputta, is a stream-enterer?” “One who possesses this Noble Eightfold Path, venerable sir, is called a stream-enterer: this venerable o...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:24 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi vs sutta (explained)

Because all of the monks in the suttas were already stream enterers. Can you give any evidence to back up this claim? They were already instructed about the fundamental doctrine and had already became stream enterers, achieving the first step of the noble 8thfold path - right view. From this point ...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:49 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi vs sutta (explained)

Such suttas about gradual training, like most suttas in the pali canon, are clearly meant for stream enterers. This is because every bhikkhu was a stream enterer back then and because first step of the noble 8thfold path is the most easy one of them. It only requires contemplation and hearing the r...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:36 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi vs sutta (explained)

Is this a joke ? I've asked for one single (just one, not two) sutta where someone becomes a stream enterer through another method than by listening to a discourse. And you come with a quote saying "the noble 8thfold path is the way to enlightenment" :juggling: But the Noble Eightfold pat...
by Bakmoon
Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:27 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mahashi [and other Satipatthana/Samadhi development methods] vs sutta [and contemplating higher teachings] (explained) -
Replies: 301
Views: 45625

Re: Mahashi vs sutta (explained)

Absolutely everybody from A to Z in the suttas did it through hearing and contemplating a discourse on dependent origination. Please provide one single sutta reference where somebody did it in another way than through listening and contemplating a discourse. Just one single one, not two. And yet th...
by Bakmoon
Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:07 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Theravāda & Nāgārjuna
Replies: 236
Views: 41637

Re: Theravāda & Nāgārjuna

If earth has a permanent quality of being earth and cannot vanish into nothing, then that makes the earth element permanent. Something that cannot cease is permanent, and this is contrary to the Buddha's fundamental insight that all conditioned phenomena are to be regarded as impermanent, unsatisfy...