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by Ceisiwr
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 15
Views: 251

Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana

Perhaps Jhana could be like a knife cut both ways. The Noble Eightfold Path (Vipassana) is called "Samma Samadhi" or "right concentration "to differentiate it from other types of Jhana. Well what makes a Jhāna "right or wrong" isn't the experience but in how its viewed...
by Ceisiwr
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 15
Views: 251

Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana

Thank you. It's more complicated than I thought. On the link you posted What are your opinions on Bhante Vimalaramsi? The opinion that concentration is the problem I saw a similar opinion, but it wasn't specific I don't know Jhana is possible without concentration :thinking: :anjali: There is conce...
by Ceisiwr
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 15
Views: 251

Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana

... To give an example of how complicated it can be for some Sarvāstivādin masters in the Jhānas the senses of sight, taste and smell do not operate but the others do. For other Sarvāstivādin masters the 1st Jhāna has the 5 senses operating, but past that they don't (since they think vitakka-vicāra...
by Ceisiwr
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
Topic: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana
Replies: 15
Views: 251

Re: sutta jhana and vipassana jhana

Are the two similar? I saw two opinion A dissenting opinion on the grounds that it is non-absorptive or agreement I feel it is similar :thinking: I don't know. can you explain :smile: As others have said, it all depends on how you view Jhāna. According to orthodox Theravāda there are two types of J...
by Ceisiwr
Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 82
Views: 2457

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

So according to you, the three characteristics are substances? According to you, the triple knowledge that all Buddhas obtain are substances? According to you, the immutable law of kamma is a substance? No. I think you have misunderstood the range of the annica doctrine. It applies to all compounde...
by Ceisiwr
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 947

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

Thanks for the informative post. Any change I can get a free complete AI translation of these Chinese text? I can email my AI translation of the relevant section from the Sangītiparyāya if you like? For the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra discussion of the Kasiṇas click here: https://www.wisdomlib.org/bud...
by Ceisiwr
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
Replies: 26
Views: 1110

Re: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna

Anālayo writes about that at length in his new book The Signless and the Deathless (2023). He also writes a lot about the description of the Buddha as "deep and unfathomable as an ocean". Implying that Nibbāna is not nothingness or annihilation, although this state can not be rendered by ...
by Ceisiwr
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 82
Views: 2457

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

It need not necessarily be predicated on the idea of a substance, but it is fixed, permanant and immutable That is what a substance is, but i'll leave you to your musings. So according to you, the three characteristics are substances? According to you, the triple knowledge that all Buddhas obtain a...
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:06 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
Replies: 4
Views: 127

What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?

In the Visuddhimagga and commentaries there is brief mention of guḷhaganthaṃ (secret texts). Is there any information on what these might have been? I assume they were meditation manuals.
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:13 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 82
Views: 2457

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

Cause_and_Effect wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:03 pm It need not necessarily be predicated on the idea of a substance, but it is fixed, permanant and immutable
That is what a substance is, but i'll leave you to your musings.
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna
Replies: 2
Views: 112

Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna

I've been reading through Ven. Nyanatiloka's "The Buddha's Path to Deliverance" today and found an interesting passage where he discusses Jhāna Nyanatiloka Jhana.jpg What is interesting here is that he says vitakka-vicāra means inner thoughts. He also states that the 5 senses are not activ...
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:36 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Replies: 82
Views: 2457

Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol

I dont think you are representing their views very well. However whether you want to speak of 'substances' or 'templates' the fact is that all the Buddhas follow a fixed 'archetypal' form. Why do you say that? Their Abhidharma taught that this Cosmic Buddha was a substance (Dravya) with an essence ...
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 947

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

If we accept the representations of opposing schools in the Kathāvatthu then the Andhakas, a sub-set of the Mahāsāṃghika, also had teachings regarding the Kasiṇas which isn't surprising considering that the Liberations and Spheres of Mastery make an appearance in EĀ 33.2 & EĀ 45.4 Controverted P...
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: Origins of Kasina Meditation?
Replies: 43
Views: 947

Re: Origins of Kasina Meditation?

What about it? You're meant to build a disc... be blind to its colour... repeat the mantra earth... earth... earth etc. and somehow this relates to the Buddha's teaching... Note that the Infinitude of space, consciousness, nothingness and neither perception nor non-perception are all perceptions ac...
by Ceisiwr
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:19 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
Replies: 26
Views: 1110

Re: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna

Metaphorical poetic light, or the manifestation of a perceptual image described as "luminosity" or "radiance" or "light" (or something else of the like) based upon contact at the doors of either the eye or the manas? Here you go. This is Ven. Dhammapāla's commentary to...