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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:35 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Help finding a sutta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 56
Re: Help finding a sutta
Thanks so much—appreciate having the three translations to compare. Nice connecting with you again!
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Help finding a sutta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 56
Help finding a sutta
Dear friends, I hope everyone is doing well. I'm wondering if you could assist me in locating a sutta. It's a brief sutta in which the Buddha explains that "the beautiful things of the world" are not in and of themselves a cause of dukkha, but rather our grasping and clinging. Thank you ve...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Happy Birthday Lazy_eye!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1937
Re: Happy Birthday Lazy_eye!!
Thanks very much! That photo David posted is, ah, quite an eyeful!
All best to everyone!
Robert (Lazy Eye)
All best to everyone!
Robert (Lazy Eye)
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:40 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Ajahn Chah Facebook page
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8684
Re: Ajahn Chah Facebook page
Thank you for this -- it's great!
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 39677
Re: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
Thanks for the video - it's great, and brought back memories of 1985! Have you seen this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5RK7DonYP8 I hadn't seen this. It's quite powerful. I take your point about the "unchanging essence" issue regarding souls, but my sticking point here is that in ...
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 39677
Re: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
If the stream is of mind, would this not be the same as 2c, as well? It looked to me like they could be the same, or similar -- since the citta isn't something static. And how would they be differentiated from a soul which is individual and persists over time? As I understand it (based on some rece...
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 39677
Re: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
... purisassa viññāṇasotaṃ ... ubhayato abbocchinnaṃ ... — "A man's stream-of-consciousness that is uninterrupted between both [this world and the next]." The phrase is unique to this sutta. "unbroken flux.." is simply a description of the (beginingless) stream of namarupa in my...
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 39677
Re: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
The Sampasādanīya Sutta , DN 28, refers to "the unbroken flux of human consciousness," in a section on degrees of discernment. It's a difficult sutta and probably there is some context or dimension of meaning to the words that I'm not aware of. However, on the face of it, doesn't this &qu...
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 39677
Re: According to Classical Theravada, what is reborn?
2.a. There is no self but there is a frequency transfer of kammic energies (some interpretations) 2.b. There is no permanent self, but there is an indeterminate, inexpressible self (pudgalavada) 2.c. There is no permanent self but there is citta which never dies (some Forest traditions and other mo...
- Sat Jul 15, 2017 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13773
Re: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
I think we should be careful not to conflate the doctrine of annata and the idea that "no one is home so nothing matters" - in no way are these the same things. Beings experience suffering, and human beings have needs and desires, and it is kind and right that we should wish and support o...
- Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13773
Re: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
An implication of the theory of the struggle for survival is that one ought to embrace this struggle and maximize one's chances to win against the competition. I see a couple problems here. One is that in a world of constant competition, no one can win all the time. Inevitably we will have the expe...
- Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13773
Re: Does Buddhism really "resist" secularism?
Do you believe there can be some sort of reconciliation between traditional Buddhism and the scientific-evolutionary-rationalistic mindset which doesn’t harm the former? A question I find myself asking is this: suppose the "scientific-evolutionary-rational" view is correct. Is there then ...
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:10 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rebirth
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11009
Re: Rebirth
At 56:43, a hell so described is referred to as mahaparilaha niraya, the Hell of the Great Conflagration. Yes, but interestingly enough this other sutta, SN 56.43, presents us with another example of hell being used figuratively rather than literally. The sutta begins with the Buddha referring to &...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:37 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rebirth
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11009
Re: Rebirth
No, it's unequivocal. Well, we'll have to disagree then. Yes, that's certainly a different way of expressing things, but presumably this sutta could be referring to a type of rebirth in a non-material realm. Could be. Nevertheless, it's still an example of a sutta where the terms "hell" a...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:41 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rebirth
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11009
Re: Rebirth
the description of rebirth in the suttas is unequivocally about a beginningless sequence of rebirths into one form of existence or another. Primarily, perhaps, but not "unequivocally." There is at least one sutta in which the heaven and hell realms are presented as states of mind rather t...