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by kowtaaia
Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:02 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Nibbana

kowtaaia, And back to your earlier statement: Your request for citation, doesn't make sense. Hopefully, a Theravadin forum doesn't exclude common sense. A Theravadin does not exclude common sense, but it certainly does not include what people imagine the Buddha to have taught, which is why asking t...
by kowtaaia
Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:57 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

Yam kinci vedayitam, tam pi dukkhasmim. Whatever sensations one experiences, all are suffering. A citation for the text, please. It was in the Vipassana Newsletter, actually. Scroll down to the third paragraph under 'Vol.11 No.7 July 5, 2001'. It gives a reference. http://www.vri.dhamma.org/newslet...
by kowtaaia
Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:52 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

Yam kinci vedayitam, tam pi dukkhasmim.

Whatever sensations one experiences, all are suffering.
by kowtaaia
Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What's your favorite Buddha's quote?
Replies: 20
Views: 6291

Re: What's your favorite Buddha's quote?

Staying at Savatthi. "Monks, suppose there were four strong archers — well-trained, practiced, & drilled — standing in the four directions, and a man were to come along saying, 'I will catch & bring down the arrows let fly by these four strong archers — well-trained, practiced, & d...
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:42 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

The psychological phenomenon is the conditioned state. The unconditioned is manifest when conditioning comes to an end. It's very simple. It has nothing to do with concentration, which is the focusing of thought, the conditioned. The word Nibbana means "not piercing; without pain". Many s...
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

Conditioning, period. The second part of the question has already been answered. Since this is a Theravadin forum, please be kind enough to back this up with a few quotes from the Pali suttas. Let's see, now. In response to "It (the unconditioned) is when conditioning comes to an end." .....
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:57 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

tiltbillings wrote:
What sort of conditioning and where aren't I?
Conditioning, period. The second part of the question has already been answered.
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:48 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

It is when conditioning comes to an end. Nibbana is the cessation of greed, hatred & delusion. Nibbana is unshakeable freedom of mind. Nibbana is beyond conditioning and non-conditioning. Buddha said: One neither fabricates nor mentally fashions for the sake of becoming or un-becoming. This bei...
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:54 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

You're welcome.

What if they gave a war and nobody came...
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:39 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

tiltbillings wrote:
kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists.
Nibbana exists where, and how?
Where you aren't. It is when conditioning comes to an end.
by kowtaaia
Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:30 am
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

Element wrote:
kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists.
Buddha said Nibbana was a dhatu or element.

:meditate:
Really? :console: Does a dhatu exist or not exist? :jumping:
by kowtaaia
Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:35 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

AdvaitaJ wrote: I guess my real question would be, "does Nibbana hold any promise of anything over and above the atheist view of complete and total cessation?" :?:

Regards: AdvaitaJ
There's only one way to find out for sure, right? :shock:
by kowtaaia
Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:28 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Nibbana
Replies: 114
Views: 31652

Re: Nibbana

Nibbana exists. :jumping:
by kowtaaia
Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:49 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Partless particles and moments
Replies: 7
Views: 3441

Re: Partless particles and moments

Friday evening on PBS (check your listings):

Program: 'Independent Lens'.

"The Atom Smashers: Physicists search for the Higgs Boson, a particle important to the understanding of how the universe is held together."
by kowtaaia
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:41 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Women can't become Buddhas?
Replies: 214
Views: 59277

Re: Women can't be enlightened?

Elohim wrote:... Perhaps the Buddha himself never said that women are inferior to men...
Ya think? :) Of course, the Buddha never said that. Awakening has nothing to do with gender.