Search found 32 matches
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:48 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Complicated issue I'm facing with meditation and mindfulness
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5523
Re: Complicated issue I'm facing with meditation and mindfulness
What is the issue here? A) What is the present moment ? - when you lift your left foot, your mind should follow the left foot lifting - when you move your left foot forward, your mind should follow the moving of the left foot forward - when you place the left foot on the floor, the mind should be w...
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:27 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3800
Re: Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
Identity and experience: the constitution of the human being according to early Buddhism ---- $145 !!!
....guess I gotta work on my attachment to money!
....guess I gotta work on my attachment to money!
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:22 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3800
Re: Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
Thank you, everyone.
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:04 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3800
Any recomendations for a good book on the Five Aggregates
In brief, The Five Aggregates ---I don't understand them.
Can anyone recommend a good book on this topic?
Thank you.
Can anyone recommend a good book on this topic?
Thank you.
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:43 am
- Forum: Study Group
- Topic: Satipatthana: The direct path to realization
- Replies: 97
- Views: 36190
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:47 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Necessity to have a God to tell us what is right and wrong?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4110
Re: Necessity to have a God to tell us what is right and wrong?
Thanks from me, too!jackson wrote:Thanks for sharing that video Nicro!
Jackson
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: First Discourse Question #2: Vision, Knowledge...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 960
Re: First Discourse Question #2: Vision, Knowledge...
iirc, sometimes the Suttas will list synonyms that aren't necessarily attributes to be differentiated. Many contemporary scholars suggest that there is a certain level of overinterpretation with respect to this sort of thing... Thanks. I appreciated that. I liked that. (see what I did there? :smile...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: First Discourse Question #2: Vision, Knowledge...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 960
First Discourse Question #2: Vision, Knowledge...
(BTW, Question #1 was the understanding, abandonning, realizing and developing thread)
So, as repeated multiple times, what does the following mean:
....there arose in me vision, knowledge, wisdom, penetration, and light.
What is the distinction between these attributes?
Thanks
So, as repeated multiple times, what does the following mean:
....there arose in me vision, knowledge, wisdom, penetration, and light.
What is the distinction between these attributes?
Thanks
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:33 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2903
Re: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
Thanks, everybody, for your responses.
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2903
Re: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
.... It is in these four ways that each of the four noble truths should be approached and understood." OK, I must have misunderstood the above. I thought you were saying there is a sutra that says that each of the Noble truths should be undsterstood through understanding, abandoning, realizing...
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:22 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Michele Bachmann Seeks To Ban Masturbation and Menstruation
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6449
Re: Michele Bachmann Seeks To Ban Masturbation and Menstruation
...wasn't it Moses, Jesus and Buddha that banned masturbation?
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:20 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2903
Re: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
...so suffering should be developed?
- Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:34 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2903
Re: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
Thank you, Pondera. I like the points you made.
But why say: The noble truth of the origin of suffering should be abandoned?
Why not just say: the origin of suffering should be abandoned?
But why say: The noble truth of the origin of suffering should be abandoned?
Why not just say: the origin of suffering should be abandoned?
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:04 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Redemptive suffering
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2419
Re: Redemptive suffering
:offtopic: Your thread made me think of some lines from MLK jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom l...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:55 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: understood, abandoned, realized and developed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2903
understood, abandoned, realized and developed
I would appreciate thoughts on the following from the first discourse. The noble truth of suffering should be understood. This makes sense. Seems to fit. The noble truth on the orgin of suffering should be abandoned. Does this mean that craving that leads to renewed existance...craving for sensual p...