The day before yesterday Apple iphone x was announced. The most impressive part is the Siri which was strengthened by recognizing the shape of the mouth and the Face-id designed to recognize facial expressions. An era was opened indeed to have full-fledged AI machine in your hands.
The 7 day poll ends today. I am grateful to all those who have been interested and watched the poll, including those who have directly participated in the poll.
Eight fold path : "In the same way I saw an 'ancient path, an ancient road(eight fold path)', traveled by the Rightly Self-awakened Ones of former times. SN12,65
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Twelve paticcasamupada dhamma : Whether or not there is the arising of Tathagatas, this property stands — this regularity of the Dhamma, this orderliness of the Dhamma, this this/that conditionality. SN12,20
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Four noble truth : “Friends, just as the footprint of any living being that walks can be placed within an elephant’s footprint, and so the elephant’s footprint is declared the chief of them because of its great size; so too, all wholesome states can be included in the Four Noble Truths. M28
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According to the scriptures above, Eight fold path, Twelve paticcasamupada dhamma and Four noble truth are not dhamma invented by Gottama, but dhamma he found. I hope you will find these dhamma inside yourself and realize them, and then you will have an experience of meeting Nibbana ie real vimutti, soon.
