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by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: the great rebirth debate
Replies: 7541
Views: 1330926

Re: the great rebirth debate

Suddh wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:30 am
Arahants don't disappear when they attain nibbāna though do they. They abide with an awareness that's entirely disjoined, released and freed from death. A death-free awareness.
Really? Where do the suttas describe the Arahant having a "death-free awareness"?
by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:15 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

He does, however, frequently speak about the self as though it does exist, without warning people that he's actually talking about something that doesn't. Perhaps you've forgotten about this verse from SN 5.10: "Why now do you assume 'a being'? Mara, have you grasped a view? This is a heap of ...
by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
Replies: 7
Views: 108

Re: Popularity of Mahāyāna

Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:53 pm In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is?
In my nearest city there is Triratna, two Tibetan groups, and a Zen group.
There was a Thai Forest group, but it shut down - they seem to have a monastic focus anyway.
by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:15 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

Do explain it for our benefit if you can. Is the following passage not clear to you? "If I — being asked by Vacchagotta the wanderer if there is a self — were to answer that there is a self, would that be in keeping with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self?" "No,...
by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:12 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

Read them many times. They're clear, yes. Your point is not. The senses are all there is (Sabba Sutta) and the senses are empty of self (Sunna Sutta). Again, is this not clear to you? The senses are all there is? Is there such a thing as the deathless, do you think? (Also known as the permanent, th...
by Spiny Norman
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:11 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

From the Phena Sutta: "Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick — this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they're empty, void to whoever sees the...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna
Replies: 4
Views: 94

Re: Ven. Dhammapāla on Nibbāna

In this commentary on the Visuddhimagga, regarding the section which discusses nibbāna, Ven. Dhammapāla writes this yadi nibbānaṃ nāma sabhāvadhammo atthi sattasantānapariyāpanno ca, atha kasmā catumahāpathe sabhā viya sabbasādhāraṇā na labbhatīti āha "maggasamaṅginā pattabbato asādhāraṇa"...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Kamma and intention
Replies: 31
Views: 727

Re: Kamma and intention

mjaviem wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:30 pm
pops wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:18 pm ...
It seems to me like one of those is around here … :candle:
Who? I would love to meet one or at least read their posts. It would be of great benefit, I think.
:clap:
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:58 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 ?

It refers to the ultimate truths of impermanence and non-self. A mother or father is a conventional truth, but once you realise that everything is not-self, including your parents, you can say that there is no mother or father. It aims to emphasize that ultimately everything is emptiness and to les...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:54 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 ?

Here he shows that teaching "there is no self" is an unbeneficial and confusing teaching that sides with the extreme of annihilationism: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN44_10.html No, it doesnt show that at all. This passage is very clear: "If I—being asked by Vacchagotta the...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

From the Phena Sutta: "Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick — this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they're empty, void to whoever sees them...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Kamma and intention
Replies: 31
Views: 727

Re: Kamma and intention

Suddh wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:08 pm And of how the crazy mahāyāna emptiness teachings evolved via the Big Lie that he did teach it.
You've read the Sunna Sutta, right?

Shunyata is the logical conclusion development of the anatta teaching.
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Your Dhamma Verses Here.
Replies: 15
Views: 697

Re: Your Dhamma Verses Here.

"Form is only emptiness, emptiness only form."
- The Heart Sutra
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

The teaching is that there are mental objects and forms and that they are without a self / they are no self (anatta) and anicca and dukkha. The teaching is that the senses are all there is, and the senses are empty of self. The teaching is that a "being" is just a convention, and that the...
by Spiny Norman
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Identity View
Replies: 60
Views: 5263

Re: Identity View

Hence, given the extensive teachings on this topic and the varied vocabularies deployed by the Buddha, I think that as a first approximation it is warranted, legitimate and useful to describe them as a teachings of no self. Buddhas useful approximation to his teachings is dukkha, it’s arising and o...