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- Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: is slavery bad
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5214
Re: is slavery bad
true or false? Screen Shot 2020-06-19 at 1.28.33 AM.png Later, the same Buddhist text [i.e. Mahaviharin Vinaya] states that the Buddha approved the use of kalpikara and the kapyari for labor in the monasteries and approved building separate quarters for them.[30] Schopen interprets the term dasa as...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:10 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: is slavery bad
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5214
Re: is slavery bad
From Wiki: The term dasa appears in early Buddhist texts, a term scholars variously interpret as servant or slave.[28] Buddhist manuscripts also mention kapyari, which scholars have translated as a legally bonded servant (slave).[29] According to Gregory Schopen, in the Mahaviharin Vinaya, the Buddh...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:01 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: The meaning of "natthi ayaṃ loko" & "atthi ayaṃ loko" ("there is not; there is this world")???
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1041
Re: The meaning of "natthi ayaṃ loko" & "atthi ayaṃ loko" ("there is not; there is this world")???
Commentarial explanation: There is no present world, no world beyond CY. For one living in the world beyond this world does not exist, and for one living in this world the world beyond does not exist. He shows: all are annihilated just where they are. SUB. CY. For one living in the world beyond, th...
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "There's no self": a sutta says
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7663
Re: THERE'S NO SELF: a sutta says
⬤ It is very interesting to see the absolute wordings: "no self" and "what is without self", ⬤ where some others would just replace them with conveniently manipulatable and easily digestible "not-self". You're dealing with a translation, here's the Pāli: Anicce niccasa...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What would you do if there is no rebirth ?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8907
Re: What would you do if there is no rebirth ?
Now, Kalamas, one who is a disciple of the noble ones — his mind thus free from hostility, free from ill will, undefiled, & pure — acquires four assurances in the here-&-now: (...) But if there is no world after death, if there is no fruit of actions rightly & wrongly done, then here in...
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New book from Venerable Analayo
- Replies: 22
- Views: 43815
Re: New book from Venerable Analayo
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- Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Anatta, Sakkaya-ditthi (self view),Mana (pride)?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5494
Re: Anatta, Sakkaya-ditthi (self view),Mana (pride)?
theY wrote:Only with lobha (desiring). Buddha and arahanta are still compare themselves with another. But they have not mana.
I guess, they don't have a māna mainly because they got rid of the notion "I am", which is a prerequisite for comparing oneself to others.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:37 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Anatta, Sakkaya-ditthi (self view),Mana (pride)?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5494
Re: Anatta, Sakkaya-ditthi (self view),Mana (pride)?
Conceit or pride are not the best translations for māna since in the English they mean only "unduly favorable estimation of one's own abilities or worth; overly positive self-regard." Whereas māna in the Pāli means thinking about oneself as better, equal or worse from others.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Fourfold Negation in the Pāli Canon
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3422
Re: The Fourfold Negation in the Pāli Canon
Why [X; not-X; X and not-X; not-(X or not-X)] is called "The Fourfold Negation"? It obviously doesn't negate a proposition in four ways.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:28 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism resources
- Replies: 181
- Views: 281410
- Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How is sunna different to anatta?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3321
Re: How is sunna different to anatta?
There's good sutta introduction on this topic written by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: There [in the Canon] you find emptiness approached from three perspectives, treating it (1) as a meditative dwelling, (2) as an attribute of objects, and (3) as a type of awareness-release. The first approach is obviously t...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Great anattā/anātman debate
- Replies: 588
- Views: 101858
Re: On anattā/anātman
Hi, here's very short sutta ( SN 1.25 ) for all who like to make a big deal out of language conventions and claim that there's something deeper going on: “If a bhikkhu is an arahant, Consummate, with taints destroyed, One who bears his final body, Would he still say, ‘I speak’? And would he say, ‘Th...
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Great anattā/anātman debate
- Replies: 588
- Views: 101858
Re: On anattā/anātman
Hi, The question is whether from this it follows that there is no soul, ever, anywhere --? In Samanupassana Sutta ( SN 22.47 ) the Buddha said that: Monks, whatever contemplatives or brahmans who assume in various ways when assuming a self, all assume the five clinging-aggregates, or a certain one o...
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Great anattā/anātman debate
- Replies: 588
- Views: 101858
Re: On anattā/anātman
Hi, Hi, jīva/sarīra was a dichotomy which wasn't taken up by the Buddha in his teachings. He famously rejected to answer if the soul (jīva) and the corpse (sarīra) are the same or different. Instead, to prevent from falling into sassata and uccheda possitions, he taught about name-form with cognizan...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:11 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Great anattā/anātman debate
- Replies: 588
- Views: 101858
Re: On anattā/anātman
Hi, jīva/sarīra was a dichotomy which wasn't taken up by the Buddha in his teachings. He famously rejected to answer if the soul (jīva) and the corpse (sarīra) are the same or different. Instead, to prevent from falling into sassata and uccheda possitions, he taught about name-form with cognizance (...