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- Sun May 07, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is scanning? What is the Pali word?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 325
Re: What is scanning? What is the Pali word?
The relevant words are pariggahaṇa for the act of scanning and pariggāhikā for the person who does it. Both are found in the commentary to the section on vedanānupassanā in the Satipaṭṭhānasutta. However, "scanning" is not really a translation as such, but rather an interpretation and appl...
- Sat May 06, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8472
Re: Fasting for uposatha...
Sorry, i don’t want to be rude. But unfortunately, none of the discussion has been cleared why the need for fasting. I think it was actually cleared up on Sunday, when Frank kindly posted a link to a page on his blog, on which all or most of the sutta passages relevant to bhojane mataññutā are conv...
- Sat May 06, 2023 6:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
FYI , for Mahayana path a novice bodhisattva whom practice the 52 stages would required to fulfill the 1st 10 stages of... Ajātasattu: “Just as if on being asked about a mango a man were to describe a breadfruit-tree, or on being asked about a breadfruit-tree he were to describe a mango, so Pūraṇa ...
- Sat May 06, 2023 2:48 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: perception of anatta has the characteristic...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 700
Re: perception of anatta has the characteristic...
Sabbadhammaabhinivesalakkhaṇā anattasaññā, tassā dhammasaññā padaṭṭhānaṁ. “Perception of not-self has the characteristic of non-insistence in the case of all ideas; its footing is perception of ideas.” I would translate it quite differently from Ñānamoli, taking the opening word as ablative and as ...
- Fri May 05, 2023 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
Do Mahayana Bodhisattvas think helping people attain is fun? Mahayana texts that exhort people to undertake bodhisattvaship give much the same reasons as those which we find in the chapter on Great Compassion in the Paṭisambhidāmagga or in Dhammapāla's Treatise on the Paramīs . None that I've seen ...
- Fri May 05, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8472
Re: Fasting for uposatha...
IOW, there is some standard, some criterion implied when certain items are called "allowed". What is that standard, that criterion? The standard is that the Buddha declared them to be so. Occasionally the Vinaya describes his thinking: At one time the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī in the...
- Thu May 04, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
From what i understand for a Mahayana aspirant to be a Bodhisattva , to begin on the path as an initiate most important requirement would be to generate the Bodhicitta . However , in order to generate Bodhicitta one need to develop The Four Divine Dwellings of Brahmas (cattāri brahmavihārā) as its ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2451
Re: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
I think the answer to question 2 is: through the air, abiding in glory, feeding on joy … That's what Ābhassara brahmās do. Susukhaṃ vata jīvāma, yesaṃ no natthi kiñcanaṃ; Pītibhakkhā bhavissāma, devā ābhassarā yathā. How happily, here, do we daily disport! Possessionless, we, the owners of nought. ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
How is it possible that Mahayana texts make it sound easy to embark upon but in actuality rather it is super duper very hard . 😁 If I wish to become a Bodhisattva... Will I need to be a male human? Will I need to be a homeless renunciate? Will I need to have already mastered the eight vimokkhas in ...
- Thu May 04, 2023 7:40 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2451
Re: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
Only thing i can think of is (assuming paranimmitavasavatti heaven is a flat circle as i imagine). Mara's territory is on the edge of paranimmitavasavatti heaven. And being a paranimmitavasavatti deva, mara and his followers had thier retinue create a barrier for the portions of the heaven that wer...
- Thu May 04, 2023 7:26 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
And Theravādins, presumably, would retort that they're just telling it as it is, while the Mahāyānists are trying to sugarcoat things. The concept of bodhisatta and its path can be found in the suttas , actually that is the instigator of Mahayana path . It seems we can sees that sugarcoating things...
- Thu May 04, 2023 5:17 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: how many brahmas are there at present?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1024
Re: how many brahmas are there at present?
I believe so, but I don't think it's common.confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 7:38 pm thanks bhante.. i am just wondering if jhana is that tough or people can do it these days? i talk about vism type of hard jhana where people dont feel body even in access concentration
- Thu May 04, 2023 4:35 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
The Theravāda texts are aimed at diverting people from becoming bodhisattvas. The mahayānā texts are aimed at promoting it. And Theravādins, presumably, would retort that they're just telling it as it is, while the Mahāyānists are trying to sugarcoat things. But both sectarian boasts are irrelevant...
- Wed May 03, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bodhisatta Path
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3277
Re: Bodhisatta Path
There is something quite obvious that you are not taking into account. If the bodhisattva goes to hell as a result of such an action this is obviously a ripening of a negative karma. Hell is a state of suffering, no? Hell is not the result of good karma or a virtuous deed. But Asanga doesn't say th...
- Wed May 03, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Fasting for uposatha...
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8472
Re: Fasting for uposatha...
Since we are discussing about an arahant, are you saying that there is an arahant who eat in twice seating? I didn't say anything about the eating habits of arahants. But now that you've raised the matter, it seems likely to me that some arahant disciples would have eaten more than one meal in the ...