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- Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: karmic cause of schizophrenia
- Replies: 171
- Views: 43324
Re: karmic cause of schizophrenia
I have a story I think is relevant here. It's not scientific it's from heart and intuition, from the empirical side of life. The beloved partner of my youth had smoked a lot of cannabis in the swinging 60's and on into the 70's. In 1978 he jumped off a building and thus ended his own life. Cruelly, ...
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:50 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Association with the noble ones, precondition for stream-ent
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3651
Re: Association with the noble ones, precondition for stream-ent
thanks for the replies. David as for a reference I read this in "The Jhanas and the Lay Disciple" by Bhikkhu Bodhi "The Sutta Piṭaka mentions four preconditions for reaching the path, called sotāpattiyaṅga, factors of stream-entry, namely: association with superior people (i.e., with ...
- Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Association with the noble ones, precondition for stream-ent
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3651
Association with the noble ones, precondition for stream-ent
One of the four preconditions for reaching stream-entry is association with the noble ones. Seems that many lay people reached stream-entry in the Buddha's time - presumably they associated with the Buddha and the Sangha. But what does this mean for us in daily lay life in the 21st Century? What doe...
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:18 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Can my cat be reborn as a human being?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 19663
Re: Can my cat be reborn as a human being?
Hi Perrow, Anguli Mala was a person in the time of Buddha who killed 999 people in the same life in which he later achieved full enlightenment. If you are worried that puss is forever doomed because s/he kills other creatures this shows us that it is not so. (Of course, it doesn't mean killing is OK...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:44 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: rebirth, kamma, progress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4004
Re: rebirth, kamma, progress
Ben wrote: The way I look at it is that we should be focused on attaining (at least) sotapatti in this life. I can't honestly believe that I, personally, have even the remotest chance of achieving stream entry in this present lifetime. I feel mocked by the idea. (Not by you, of course, but by the i...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:33 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: rebirth, kamma, progress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4004
rebirth, kamma, progress
What possibilities might exist for positive kamma if the life following this one is as, say, a cockroach or a tapeworm or a jellyfish or a tiger or ... etc. I can't see any. Does it mean that being born "lower" than a human birth that from there on it's all backwards, away from nibbana (or...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Why meditate
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4020
Re: Why meditate
thankyou all for your replies, words of advice, links and quotes. All useful to try and get a look at the problem from another angle. I've been meditating for 10+ years and in the past when problems crop up I have just kept going telling myself that the Dhamma will lead me on. I wanted to add that I...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Why meditate
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4020
Re: Why meditate
thankyou for all for your replies, I appreciate you taking the time to post. Moggalana wrote Meditation leads to a calm, clear, purified mind (samatha) and allows you to investigate the nature of reality (vipassana). :) So they say. But so far that hasn't been my experience. Like Collective I seem t...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Why meditate
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4020
Why meditate
Can someone say why we meditate? I seem to have lost the plot a bit. Feeling strong mental rebellion about sitting have now just stopped. I'm not happy about it but when I do sit my mind is just all over the place. So it seems pointless, it's not really meditation is it? It's just sitting on a medit...
- Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:37 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: meretricious and happy new beer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3779
Re: meretricious and happy new beer
The Sayadaw U Pandita book was mentioned in another thread and I ordered it from the Book Depository. It arrived in under 2 weeks and cost $16.20 (Australian) because they pay the freight ! Ben, I hope the retreat was beneficial. I'm going for a 10 dayer on Sunday. Christmas morning was spent under ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:03 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Inspiring Quotes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2328
Re: Inspiring Quotes
Well, I like Chris' signature:
being5
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
being5
- Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:19 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: "bowls" and "bowels" - what a howler!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5774
Re: "bowls" and "bowels" - what a howler!
from the link Pannasikhara posted there is another link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences and a sentence with five ands is given there: # For my sign, please put more room between the Smith and and and and and Sons. ("The 'Smith' and 'and,' and 'and' and 'Son...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:29 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: "bowls" and "bowels" - what a howler!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5774
Re: "bowls" and "bowels" - what a howler!
Kim, I could get to five consecutive ands by pretending a conversation between two people discussing digital signals. In digital logic there are elements called, collectively, 'gates'. Gates are named according to their functions: AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR, (maybe others I've missed - it's been a whil...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:59 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Samyutta-Nikaya & Samyuktagama
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10395
Re: Samyutta-Nikaya & Samyuktagama
Hello Suanck, The Australasian Digital Theses Program lists Australasian theses http://adt.caul.edu.au/homesearch If you do a search on "Choong" you will find the thesis you are interested in listed amongst the results (Number 28). It is not available online from the University of Qld. whi...
- Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:50 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is it that clings?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6039
Re: What is it that clings?
The teabag has been steeping, the practice has been continuing and last week a Dhamma talk by Ajahn Sucitto helped further towards an answer to the question "What is it that clings?". I post the link here for those who might also find it helpful. The particular talk is "No End In Sigh...