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by cittaanurakkho
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Abandoning pleasure & pain
Replies: 102
Views: 3036

Re: Abandoning pleasure & pain

Suttas are quite clear that you have bodily experience in jhanas. Only in 1st arupa-attainment it is gone. So you’re not that far from the gross material world? How then does one no longer feel physical pain or pleasure? From what I undersand, in-out breath stop in 4th jhana (SN 36:11; AN 10:72) be...
by cittaanurakkho
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

In Pali canon every time kasinas are mentioned it is done in conjunction with jhanas and/or superhuman abilities based on jhanas. So practice is very clear. You enter jhanas and, after mastering them, you make your perception attuned to something "one" - particular color or aspect of matt...
by cittaanurakkho
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:47 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

... For Theravāda though, like the Sangītiparyāya, the expansion of the perception occurs whilst in Jhāna but this can be from the 1st Jhāna onwards. ... Thanks for the informative post. Any change I can get a free complete AI translation of these Chinese text? In Visudhimagga the expansion can occ...
by cittaanurakkho
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

Direct question... do you see any similarity between the Visuddhimagga's earth teaching and the Buddha's teaching? I dislike Visuddhimagga. Let's take Vimuttimagga. And Sutta as Buddha's teaching. Vimuttimagga does not teach about earth. That would be geology :tongue:. I see many passages in Vimutt...
by cittaanurakkho
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

BrokenBones wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:21 pm
Note that the Infinitude of space, consciousness, nothingness and neither perception nor non-perception are all perceptions accessed via perception of earth with no mention of the four jhanas.
Zom, comment please!
by cittaanurakkho
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

The discs might not contain blue, yellow, red or white but they contain brown. How is it not a brown kasina? Because in the sutta with the earth kasina or even earth element, it is not the color one is focus on. And where color kasina were mentioned, there were no mentioned of brown color. Therefor...
by cittaanurakkho
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:53 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

Kasina was mentioned in the Sutta but the actual practice was kind of not clear to me. The most comprehensive sources I know were from Visuddhi/Vimutti-magga. So, please elaborate your take in detail and share the references from the Pali canon, if possible the actual practice itself and not just w...
by cittaanurakkho
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:42 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

The biggest clue to the colour kasinas not being part of the Buddha's original teachings is that they have no underlying wisdom to them. Unlike the earth, water etc. totalities which are explicitly linked to wisdom. VVM = Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga I could be wrong, but as I understand it, kasi...
by cittaanurakkho
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:54 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 953

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

In Pali canon kasinas are not devices. They are states of mind in jhanic samadhi. Since that is so, "kasina meditation" was just an aspect of jhanic meditation, something to be done when jhanas are already attained. Centuries later someone introduced kasinas as physical disks, which is ob...
by cittaanurakkho
Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 58
Views: 3333

Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent

Yes, but trained in what standard? That's the question - the standard of the Sutta and Vinaya, or the standard of U This and Ajahn That? Was it the latter which the Buddha meant when he said to Ananda, "“Now, Ānanda, if it occurs to any of you—‘The teaching has lost its arbitrator; we are with...
by cittaanurakkho
Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Pāḷi Tesseract OCR
Replies: 10
Views: 2041

Re: Pāḷi Tesseract OCR

I totally understand that OCRs are not perfect and can have some errors. Have you ever tried using Smart Engines OCR SDK ? I heard it has some pretty impressive capabilities in recognizing different scripts and characters accurately. Just a suggestion! Anyway, thanks for sharing your work on traini...
by cittaanurakkho
Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:38 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What font please
Replies: 2
Views: 173

Re: What font please

Maybe
font-family:CDAC-GISTSurekh,CDAC-GISTYogesh,Mangal
by cittaanurakkho
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:58 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Confuse no more: A definitive poem of rebirth, jhana and more --
Replies: 1
Views: 210

Confuse no more: A definitive poem of rebirth, jhana and more --

according to Artificial Wisdom of Chat-GPT and furthermore. Concentration To focus on the present moment Is to calm the restless mind To let go of the past and future Is to find the peace inside To observe the breath and body Is to anchor in the now To notice thoughts and feelings Is to see their im...
by cittaanurakkho
Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:12 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Pali Resources
Replies: 115
Views: 225586

Re: Pali Resources

A thesis about Panini's sanskrit grammar rule conflicts resolution.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-ancient-g ... years.html
The link to the thesis here:
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332654
by cittaanurakkho
Thu Dec 09, 2021 7:12 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Present or Past
Replies: 6
Views: 645

Re: Present or Past

... and the Pāliveyyākaraṇa of Prince Vajirañāṇavarorasa.
Bhante, is there any link to the source for this text?
Thanks.