These lists can be true in many cases. Several of the ones from the "non-Buddhist country" list had applied to me in the past.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to think about these things. It is beneficial to contemplate!
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- Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "Buddhist country" Lay practice as a model for the rest?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4624
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:16 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: The way to Nirvana
- Replies: 97
- Views: 16269
Re: The way to Nirvana
Nirvana is seeing that craving and attachment (clinging) leads to suffering. Nirvana is seeing that all things are impermanent. Nirvana is seeing that all things are not-self, related and interdependent but of no self-essence. Nirvana is seeing that all things arise from conditions, are supported by...
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:14 am
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: What carries and accumulates wholesome/unwholesome qualities
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2623
Re: What carries and accumulates wholesome/unwholesome qualities
There is nothing carried, only related. If you harm someone and they later harm you, this is not because you or any part of you carried anything. It is due to the attachment in the mind of another, a seed planted within their mind which ripens in the form of violence upon you. Causes of related Effe...
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:11 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is force/violence ever acceptable?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1592
Re: Is force/violence ever acceptable?
There are no perfect answers or scenarios. Please take the following as it seems reasonable to you. Self-defense is acceptable insofar as the intent is to protect life. If an attacker were to come at you, violence would be acceptable to defend your life as long as the intent is not to kill the attac...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:05 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Can an arahant become a Buddha?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1896
Re: Can an arahant become a Tathagata?
There is only seeing things with Right View, and not seeing things with Right View.
What one chooses to do at any point is always an option.
What one chooses to do at any point is always an option.
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: A Saying of Luang Por Chah's
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1086
Re: A Saying of Luang Por Chah's
If you're looking at a television show, there is sight and sound. There's no one who owns that sight and sound, no self, simply sight and sound. Sight-consciousness, sound-consciousness, emotional feelings, perceptions, all arising and passing at each moment. No owner, no self. "Be the observer...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Problems with admitting stream-entry
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10492
Re: Problems with admitting stream-entry
I do recall at one point in one of the sutras, the Buddha proclaiming that among all of his monks, the least enlightened had entered the stream (Ananda). I think this was near his death, and it would display the Buddha speaking of another's state of mind, rather than Ananda making any kind of statem...
- Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:57 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi There
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1322
Re: Hi There
Welcome to the forum. :smile: Be careful about being firmly rooted! Remember it's a raft to lead your mind to the "other shore" of Nirvana. The more we cling to the raft, the more difficult it is to free-flow toward the destination. Use it, but don't take it to be the truth itself. It is o...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:13 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Problems with admitting stream-entry
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10492
Re: Problems with admitting stream-entry
That may be so, but this: All ties — human & divine — have been cut. Having cast off all effluents, cooled am I, unbound. seems to pretty unmistakably say at least "stream-entry." If you'd take it as saying stream-entry, that is what it would be saying, not "stream-enterer"....
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:04 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Problems with admitting stream-entry
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10492
Re: Problems with admitting stream-entry
That is exactly so! There is nothing strange about the fact that they are similar, indeed this is to be expected from two minds that have both cast off the fetters of the conceptual world. Hi AjahnDoe, A good point that it is not phrased as: "I am an Arahant". But that's also the case with...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:10 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New book of Ajahn Sumedho talks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2645
Re: New book of Ajahn Sumedho talks
Interesting, I must have misread! Thank you for the correction and details.
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:53 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Problems with admitting stream-entry
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10492
Re: Problems with admitting stream-entry
It may be worth noting that this women (quoted above) was speaking of her state of mind in comparison to how it used to be, speaking of freedom. This is different from declaring or calling oneself a Stream-Winner, Once-Returner, Non-Returner or Arahant. The difference is subtle, but it is there. Thi...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:21 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: New book of Ajahn Sumedho talks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2645
Re: New book of Ajahn Sumedho talks
Ajahn Chah spoke directly and simply of the truth, and Ajahn Sumedho is not only his student, but also the first to open a Thai Forest monastery in the USA.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:19 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Vipassana Experience
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3231
Re: Vipassana Experience
Well done.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:04 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Different emphasis on the Eightfold Path at different times
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1643
Re: Different emphasis on the Eightfold Path at different times
When there is one area where you feel you are lacking, you should focus on that area. This is Right Effort, and it applies to all factors of the Noble Eightfold Path. So the short answer is Yes.