Search found 11 matches
- Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:35 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: right speech
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3377
Re: right speech
Hello, befriend. From what I know, speaking harshly under ones breath is certainly considered wrong speech, and if it's not, then there is certainly ill will, which does cause suffering. You have made a very important connection between the speech we use, and the states of mind that arise as a resul...
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:18 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Which one is true?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6727
Re: Which one is true?
In my opinion the differences between Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism are inherently irrelevant. The only way one could truly verify what the truth really is regarding this topic is if one built a time machine, traveled back to the past, and made empirical social observations regarding the ...
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: How to make the breath interesting?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2841
Re: How to make the breath interesting?
One thing that really helped me was realizing that my breath wasn't really "mine." I spent years focusing on "my" breath, then I realized that the in breath and out breath, being a sankhara, and one of the fourth agregate, was impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not mine. By letting...
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:18 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Right/Wrong Sati; is it the method or application?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1149
Re: Right/Wrong Sati; is it the method or application?
As I understand sati, and this is just my understanding, there is right sati, and wrong sati, but it's not right and wrong like normal stuff. It's more of a difference between presence of, and absence of sati. Right sati as the presence of mindfulness, and wrong sati as the absence of mindfulness. K...
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:11 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: sounds, smells, tastes, med obj?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1562
Re: sounds, smells, tastes, med obj?
I'm really sorry. I retract what I said earlier. It actually is fitting that one would establish mindfulness of sense objects as they arise and pass away. My mistake.
-Wow.
-Wow.
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:57 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: sounds, smells, tastes, med obj?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1562
Re: sounds, smells, tastes, med obj?
Not really. When the mind comes into contact with a sensory object, and then starts to think about that sensory object, it's generally considered a distraction, or a lapse in mindfulness. If you pay attention to this object instead of your meditation object, you will not enter Jhana. When this distr...
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING TO MEDITATORS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1486
Re: A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING TO MEDITATORS
The whole time I was reading this I thought about the Mystics from "The Dark Crystal," the Jim Henson movie.
AAUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.... (slices carrot)*
AAUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.... (slices carrot)*
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:43 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: conventional self
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1865
Re: conventional self
Well, according to what the Buddha taught, there is no self. What you consider to be "you" is just a combination of several components that came together, and will eventually fall apart. When it comes to a "conventional self" the selfless nature of "you" is still presen...
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:35 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: antidote to sadness
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3839
Re: antidote to sadness
Try opening up to the sadness. It's obviously arising because it was caused by something. Try to spend some time with it, and understand what it's all about. Then it will probably become your friend and stop bothering you.
-Wow
-Wow
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:31 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: The Buddha vs Arahants
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3203
Re: The Buddha vs Arahants
That's actually quite interesting. As it's recorded in the Pali Canon, the Buddha never claimed omniscience. He did however declare possession of "ten powers." A Sutta that describes these is in Sutta #12 of the Majjhima Nikaya, called "The Great Discourse on the Lion's Roar." Th...
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:24 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: jhana
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2233
Re: jhana
A rather comprehensive guide can be found in the Anupada Sutta - the 111th Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya. It covers the 8 Jhanas "One by One" as they occur by examining how Sariputta progressed through them and subsequently attained Arahatship. Here is a link that will connect you to an Eng...