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by kidd
Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:26 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What does grasping mean?
Replies: 20
Views: 5042

Re: What does grasping mean?

Greetings kidd, There is no benefit in giving up natural and normal human desires; the benefit, the human benefit, comes from giving up cravings; lust, greed, and the like. What's the difference between "natural and normal human desires" and "cravings; lust, greed, and the like"...
by kidd
Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:28 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What does grasping mean?
Replies: 20
Views: 5042

Re: What does grasping mean?

sundara wrote:Sense desire is so hard to give up. Sense desire is the first hindrance in the list of the hindrances.
There is no benefit in giving up natural and normal human desires; the benefit, the human benefit, comes from giving up cravings; lust, greed, and the like.

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by kidd
Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What does grasping mean?
Replies: 20
Views: 5042

Re: What does grasping mean?

hi Mike,
I'm referring, for example, to people who imagine they can satisfy their needs, their human needs, through immoral behavior; grasping at lies, illusions.
kidd

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by kidd
Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:48 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What does grasping mean?
Replies: 20
Views: 5042

Re: What does grasping mean?

Grasping is trying to get hold of things that don't exist; things that exist only in the mind, in illusion.

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by kidd
Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:48 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Seeing Impermanence
Replies: 38
Views: 10699

Re: Seeing Impermanence

Start by looking on the bright side; the pains, the sorrows, the angers and the fears that interfere with your happiness in the present are all temporary.

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by kidd
Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:22 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Prejudice and Addiction
Replies: 7
Views: 2787

Re: Prejudice and Addiction

Hi green-tea. I like your chosen name. I think she is saying that as human beings we prefer (have a prejudice towards) a world that is unchanging and that we try to make it so by behaving in habitual ways (having addictions or addictive behaviors). And further, that we are born this way. I don't agr...
by kidd
Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:49 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Mindfulness Of Mental Objects (dhammanupassana)
Replies: 32
Views: 15377

Re: Mindfulness Of Mental Objects (dhammanupassana)

Is knowing a state of mind? Is understanding a state of mind? Do I know something right now in this moment? Do I understand something right now in this moment? How can this be confusing? Is there something to be gained by making, or imagining there is, a distinction between seeing things as they are...
by kidd
Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:24 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What is it that clings?
Replies: 23
Views: 6037

Re: What is it that clings?

Is clinging being attached to seeing things as they're not, rather than seeing them as they are?

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by kidd
Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: It's Just Ego Again
Replies: 20
Views: 4140

Re: It's Just Ego Again

Human beings are social by nature.
What is regarded negatively as ‘ego’ generally refers to preoccupation with one's self.

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by kidd
Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:25 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Refuge in Oneself
Replies: 86
Views: 15958

Re: Refuge in Oneself

The ‘ego’ is an intellectualization of the experience of self-awareness; the ‘I’, the ‘self’ exists only in our minds; our notions of superiority and inferiority are figments of our imagination; we are, each and every one, simply, completely, and only, human beings; none of us is any more than this...
by kidd
Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:06 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Refuge in Oneself
Replies: 86
Views: 15958

Re: Refuge in Oneself

The ‘ego’ is an intellectualization of the experience of self-awareness; the ‘I’, the ‘self’ exists only in our minds; our notions of superiority and inferiority are figments of our imagination; we are, each and every one, simply, completely, and only, human beings; none of us is any more than this,...
by kidd
Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:54 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Integrating practice and life
Replies: 27
Views: 5447

Re: Integrating practice and life

By being honest about myself, others and life; seeing and appreciating things as they are.

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by kidd
Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:38 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Refuge in Oneself
Replies: 86
Views: 15958

Re: Refuge in Oneself

A wolf is just a wolf; it has no ego to protect or preserve; it has ‘no self’.

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by kidd
Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:04 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Quality of life 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 1887

Re: Quality of life 2009

Creating a personal list of this type, using your own criteria, can be illuminating.

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by kidd
Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:07 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Most important texts
Replies: 21
Views: 5580

Re: Most important texts

What could be more important than The Eightfold Path; the path by which everything else can be known?

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Edit: Sorry. The Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta, "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth". Thank you, Chris!