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by Sam Vara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Suggestion box
Topic: How do I contact an Admin? PM feature unavailable.Hi
Replies: 5
Views: 1341

Re: How do I contact an Admin? PM feature unavailable.Hi

My topic was also not allowed and I also can't pm a team member. I don't see how my topic is wrong in the 2a-c section wrong speech? Best regards The same may apply here. If there are lots of attempts by bots to get onto the forum, and your first post reads anything like them, then it might get tur...
by Sam Vara
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: What is a dhammā exactly?
Replies: 39
Views: 1008

Re: What is a dhammā exactly?

retrofuturist wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:47 pm

The Buddha's Noble Truth of arising leaves no room for any of this academic / Hindu / Brahmic / Abhidhammic hokum... but while there's a market for it, there will be supply.
Looking for some common ground here between you and C. Do dhammas arise, and if so what are they? :anjali:
by Sam Vara
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:41 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
Replies: 23
Views: 440

Re: Two Types of Jhāna

What is "object-scrutinising Jhāna"? "Jhāna is twofold: that which (views or) examines closely the object and that which examines closely the characteristic marks. Of these two, "object-scrutinising" Jhāna examines closely the devices [e.g., Kasiṇas] as mental objects. Insi...
by Sam Vara
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:45 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Two Types of Jhāna
Replies: 23
Views: 440

Re: Two Types of Jhāna

What is "object-scrutinising Jhāna"? "Jhāna is twofold: that which (views or) examines closely the object and that which examines closely the characteristic marks. Of these two, "object-scrutinising" Jhāna examines closely the devices [e.g., Kasiṇas] as mental objects. Insi...
by Sam Vara
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 41
Views: 772

Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"

For if form were self, it wouldn’t lead to affliction. And you could compel form: Rūpañca hidaṁ, bhikkhave, attā abhavissa, nayidaṁ rūpaṁ ābādhāya saṁvatteyya, labbhetha ca rūpe: ‘May my form be like this! May it not be like that!’ ‘evaṁ me rūpaṁ hotu, evaṁ me rūpaṁ mā ahosī’ti. But because form is...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:35 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 41
Views: 772

Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"

Well that’s a very good point. Much better than trying to persuade people that they don’t own their body because they can do nothing against illness and old age. I am honestly quite suprised to be the only one having an issue with such an argument. Is it a good point because you accept that the con...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Sayin' Hallo To All!
Replies: 8
Views: 293

Re: Sayin' Hallo To All!

Eljin wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:39 pm
bubblyeducate wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:15 am Hello everyone, I look forward to learning a lot from the forum
Welcome, I'm new too!
Welcome, Eljin! :anjali: Feel free to say a few words of introduction about yourself.
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 41
Views: 772

Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"

But ownership can only be of a self, of which there are none. Well that’s a very good point. Much better than trying to persuade people that they don’t own their body because they can do nothing against illness and old age. I am honestly quite suprised to be the only one having an issue with such a...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
Replies: 41
Views: 772

Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"

The body is not our self, nor do we own it, because we have no ultimate control over it. We can affect what it does to some extent, and even change what it seems to be, but it will, as a khandha , go its own way without reference to our desires. It doesn't ask our permission to age, get sick, or di...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Which one should I follow?
Replies: 12
Views: 463

Re: Which one should I follow?

Follow what works best in your own experience. :anjali: :goodpost: Definitely. If you commit to following a teacher regardless of the outcome, then you run the risk of following someone who will lead you astray. But if you commit to following what you think the suttas say regardless of the outcome,...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:13 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena
Replies: 6
Views: 457

Re: Suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena

suññaṁ attena vā attaniyena What is atta in the instrumental case here? https://suttacentral.net/sn35.85/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin Attena and attaniyena : "by self" and "by belonging to a self&qu...
by Sam Vara
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:21 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Vande
Replies: 2
Views: 111

Re: Vande

pulga wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:59 am It's the middle voice, first person singular indicative. It's only found in verse.
Brilliant! That's very helpful pulga, thanks very much. :heart: :anjali:
by Sam Vara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: "Reverse Nibbana"
Replies: 10
Views: 402

Re: "Reverse Nibbana"

Could one eliminate all attachment by attaching all dukkha to what it wants? If not, why not? If you mean by assuaging every bit of suffering by meeting every desire, then no. It's the desire itself that is the problem, not the lack of the objects of desire. As the Buddha said, Not even if it raine...
by Sam Vara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Vande
Replies: 2
Views: 111

Vande

I'm currently getting into a really nice Sri Lankan chant that involves the phrase Buddham/Dhammam/Sangham vande

I would have expected vandāmi here. Is it in a less common form of the optative? Or what?
by Sam Vara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Sucitto on refuge
Replies: 3
Views: 138

Sucitto on refuge

Latest thoughts from Ajahn Sucitto. He often talks of "felt meaning", and this provides a good contrast with the struggle to attain a workable and useful intellectual understanding which we often find online. The felt meaning, the perception, of being in Refuge, may be evoked by attending ...