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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5253
Re: Identity View
Buddha's comments on no self to Vacchagotta. The scripture is intended for you You have confusion Ignore this at your own peril Mod note : in this classical Theravada forum your self view beliefs are not permitted. Also your post has a flavour of karmic retribution which is against terms of service
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 62179
Re: What are your ideas about Pa Auk method ?
I find it difficult to see how anyone who's read the Suttas can take a teacher seriously who says that there is ultimately no mother or father and insists they're just conventions. To me it indicates that they haven't even got mundane right view. Dhammapada Verse 62 . Ignorance Brings Suffering &qu...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:23 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1125
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
- Replies: 28
- Views: 556
Re: Two Types of Jhāna
I wrote about this last month:
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There are 2 kinds of bhavana (“meditation”),lakkhaṇārammaṇūpanijjhānena, in the dispensation (sasana)......
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1125
Re: What is a dhammā exactly?
The meaning(s) of dhamma (nina van Gorkom) https://classicaltheravada.org/t/the-meaning-of-dhamma-by-nina-van-gorkom/25 Conclusion: There are many meanings of dhamma as it is used in different contexts. As we have seen, the aim of the teachings is not merely knowing the texts, but the application of...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 347
Re: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
This quote was from here I think asittakapandaka - A man who gains satisfaction from performing oral sex on another man and from ingesting his semen, and only becomes sexually aroused after ingesting another man's semen. ussuyapandaka - A voyeur, a man who gains sexual satisfaction from watching a m...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 347
Re: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
Yes indeed. Only pandaka's are barred from ordination.retrofuturist wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:27 am Greetings Robert,
Is it your opinion that this is what Classical Theravada endorses?
Metta,
Paul.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 347
Are Homosexuals allowed to ordain?
My opinion:
If the man is gay with all genitals intact and is , like every gay man I have ever met well able to control any sexual desire, he may well be an asset to the sangha. He might be one who properly understands Dhamma and can, as much as any non-gay man be able to develop evermore insight.
If the man is gay with all genitals intact and is , like every gay man I have ever met well able to control any sexual desire, he may well be an asset to the sangha. He might be one who properly understands Dhamma and can, as much as any non-gay man be able to develop evermore insight.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Yellow Page Teachings - Ajahn Jayasāro
- Replies: 298
- Views: 33203
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1084
Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
And that somehow a few century after Buddha, monks and nuns misunderstood the Buddha, going bat crazy, and started to stare at disk made of earth, fire, or bowl water, etc. These monks are so crazy that they conjure it all up and wrote it down in Abhidhamma, and all the *magga: Patisambhidhamagga, ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Dhp. 97
- Replies: 9
- Views: 376
Re: Dhp. 97
This is from Carter and Palihawadana's excellent translation of the Commentary.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: BMC is Unorthodox
- Replies: 5
- Views: 598
Re: BMC is Unorthodox
Very interesting
Any particularly glaring errors that could be clarified?
Any particularly glaring errors that could be clarified?
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
- Replies: 89
- Views: 6946
Re: Revisiting The Buddha's Ethnicity
There are suttas where people meet the Buddha and don't recognise him, even those who knew of the Dhamma and followed it. If he was truly of remarkable appearance, word of that would've surely spread and that would not have happened. See, for example https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.1...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 876
Re: When Tathagata was teaching, who was teaching?
https://www.buddhanet.net/bud_lt10.htm Misconceptions There are some who take delight in making the Buddha a non-human. They quote a passage from the Anguttara Nikâya (II, 37), mistranslate it, and misunderstand it. The story goes thus: Once the Buddha was seated under a tree in the meditation postu...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 267
Re: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
).Threefold, however, is the fruit of karma: ripening during the life-time (dittha-dhamma-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in the next birth (upapajja-vedaníya-kamma), ripening in later births (aparápariya-vedaníya kamma)
…" (A.VI, 63