You might want to take a look at Robert Wright's work in "Why Buddhism is True" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlightenment/dp/1439195455 There is a video promoting the book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJZTrVlSBTY As I recall the basic points (I did an on...

Is nibbana an ultimate reality? IMG_5229.jpeg http://www.abhidhamma.com/Abhid-Lectures-1.pdf I'm not sure what this means. If what we directly experience for ourselves is called ultimate reality, then 1. Is there a difference between things we experience and things we directly experience? 2. If the...

As I recall the basic points (I did an online course with him years ago) he says that we have evolved to survive and pass on our DNA, which doesn't require, and is often inimical to, correct knowledge about how things really are. Those creatures who fear suffering and massively over-estimate the pl...

Neo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:03 pm who knows if this myth might be true...

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Many aghorī do male sterilization. Some practitioners of Sikhism also do same as aghorīs. Taoists also do same? Or do they adopt some temporary methods? Would it not make it more difficult to understand, as now semen will emerge more from pores of skin in the form of perspiration? Men can perspire ...

We are hard-wired to be aggressive pleasure-seekers, because this is what made our ancestors into survivors. It also frequently led them to hells and the animal births. Not according to evolutionary theory, it didn't, except in a metaphorical sense. Which would be difficult to maintain here, becaus...

You might want to take a look at Robert Wright's work in "Why Buddhism is True" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlightenment/dp/1439195455 There is a video promoting the book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJZTrVlSBTY As I recall the basic points (I did an onl...

Is Ignorance intertwined with wisdom? Sri Lankan monk said that the wisdom is intertwined with ignorance. He referring to a Sutta. The question was “what is Vinnana” and What is “Panna” The answers was that Vinnana and Panna are not mutually exclusive sets. The way I read it when Panna increases th...

Latest from Ajahn Sucitto, dealing, as ever, with the practicalities of Dhamma in everyday life: To establish mindfulness and full knowing in daily life relies on filtering the input of stuff coming at us from all directions, because the sheer deluge can overwhelm us. Because we build up psychologic...

Greetings in Dhamma! I am currently engaging with a member of the Waharaka movement in Sri Lanka, which have some quite unorthodox philological takes of certain Pāḷi words with which I do not agree. Among their peculiar interpretations is that aniccaṃ ultimately refers to “non-liking” or “not accor...

Greetings, I don't think so. They share the prefixes, but so do lots of other words. It's like in English when we have "confirm" and "contemplate". True, but in both senses the "con" and the "sam" signify "with". Metta, Paul. :) Yes, that's why I ch...

I think "undertake" is a good translation, and most translators seem to use it. Ādiyati means to take up or appropriate, the ā prefix meaning "to oneself". The extra bit Sam usually means "with" or that something has been completed. So the general sense is that I take ...

The Five Precepts: 1. Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures. 2. Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given. 3. Kamesu micchacara veramani sikkhapadam samad...

Hey guys, My SAT test is right around the corner and I am feeling pretty stressed out about it. Do you guys have any dhamma related ways of dealing with this? Heard of the Japanese concept of Ikigai? The Five Pillars of Ikigai Beyond your career, ikigai can become a framework for approaching life i...

... the teacher was relating compassion to the base of the infinity of space... ... when suffering, we benefit from someone or something "giving us space", some kind of distance from oppression and affliction... But where compassion falls in here? I'm asking because I don't understand the...