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- 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"...
- 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?
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.sundara wrote:Sense desire is so hard to give up. Sense desire is the first hindrance in the list of the hindrances.
- 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
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
- 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.
What is regarded negatively as ‘ego’ generally refers to preoccupation with one's self.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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.
- 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’.
- 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.
- 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?
Edit: Sorry. The Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta, "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth". Thank you, Chris!
Edit: Sorry. The Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta, "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth". Thank you, Chris!