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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 336
Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
If one couldn’t (up to a certain degree and dependent of the circumstances of the actual life) control the way the mind behaves and develops there wouldn’t be a teaching to overcome dukkha (Nibbana). Wouldn’t you say also? Dukkha is to be understood , not overcome. There is nothing to overcome and ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
"Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect. " AN 6.63
Are intentions permanent or impermanent?
Since they are clearly impermanent, can intentions define a person?
Are intentions permanent or impermanent?
Since they are clearly impermanent, can intentions define a person?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 336
Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
This is what I don't understand also. how can good thoughts, generosity, good speech be not self if they accumulate into well being. Goodness builds up. So how can it be impermanent? If goodness were permanent, why is there a need to build it up? If things can be accumulated, are they permanent or ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 336
Re: If we can't control the five clinging-aggregate, how do we attain Nibbana?
You don't attain nibbana. You realise it through non clinging. A realisation rather than an attainment or gain. "Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, dis...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 189
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
I'm adding the quote for context: "If this body is really mine, it will obey my commands. when I say "don't get old" or "I forbid you from getting hurt!" does it listen to me? No! It doesn't care about my opinion at all. We are only tenants, not owners of this "house&q...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna
- Replies: 2
- Views: 112
Re: Ven. Nyanatiloka on Jhāna
Interesting to compare this with what Dhammadinna says in Cullavedalla. Of course this does not map with the jhanas directly. "But when a monk is attaining the cessation of perception & feeling, which things cease first: bodily fabrications, verbal fabrications, or mental fabrications?"...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path is in
- Replies: 13
- Views: 279
Re: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path i
1st bundle/collection=sila 2nd bundle=samadhi 3rd bundle=panna/wisdom The 4 Noble Truths are the elephant footprint. The Four Noble Truth taught by the Buddha as a framework for practice are: dukkha (suffering), samudaya (the cause of suffering), nirodha (the end of suffering) and magga (the path le...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: The subject of "Buddha-Nature" in Theravada Buddhism. What unites Buddhists?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1281
Re: The subject of "Buddha-Nature" in Theravada Buddhism. What unites Buddhists?
[title] .. What unites Buddhists? Quite easy. What unites Buddhists is ... Anatta, of course. BTW, What divides Buddhists is ... umm ... Anatta too. :jumping: What unites and divides is self cherishing! :toast: Nimokkha Sutta The Discourse on Release S 1.2 1 Originating in Sāvatthī. Then, when the ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
- Replies: 73
- Views: 3760
Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
It seems a unsurpassable person like the Buddha are not that popular , famous or well known compared to Jesus and Mohammed . It seems both Jesus and Mohammed followers are outnumbered the Buddha . Would it be possible buddhism try to catch up with them ? It's a numbers game, is it? To a large exten...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Safe place during war
- Replies: 29
- Views: 562
Re: Safe place during war
You could move to a tropical island with lots of beautiful women. Find work there, and enjoy your life. Meditate on your off time and deeply delve into beautiful Buddhist texts. Or, ordain as a Monk in one of the Buddhist countries you mentioned, maybe another one. However, I think you should start...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
- Replies: 73
- Views: 3760
Re: Buddha appear lagging behind Jesus & Mohammed
It seems a unsurpassable person like the Buddha are not that popular , famous or well known compared to Jesus and Mohammed . It seems both Jesus and Mohammed followers are outnumbered the Buddha . Would it be possible buddhism try to catch up with them ? It's a numbers game, is it? The richest pers...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 18896
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Care to elaborate? End of existence is said but not meant It’s meant but not completely Middle way is not extreme way To me, the Middle Way is a non-denial of existence and non-existence by way of dependent arising. Cessation of sense experience, which is a different thing, can be temporary or fina...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 18896
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Care to elaborate?
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 18896
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
If it does cease, is that annihilation for you? There is no annihilation Is there a difference between temporary and permanent cessation? "There are these three things that are (genuine) mother-&-child-separating dangers. Which three? The danger of aging, the danger of illness, the danger ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:23 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
- Replies: 760
- Views: 18896
Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
What does nirodha or cessation/ending mean to you? What about this? Still temporary? This was said by the Lord… The born, come-to-be, produced … What happens to the born? Does it cease/end? If so, how does this come about? If it does cease, is that annihilation for you? What happened to the dinosau...