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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
Whatever sensations one experiences, all are suffering.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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." .....
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:57 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.tiltbillings wrote:
What sort of conditioning and where aren't I?
- 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...
- 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...
What if they gave a war and nobody came...
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:39 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Nibbana
- Replies: 114
- Views: 31652
Re: Nibbana
Where you aren't. It is when conditioning comes to an end.tiltbillings wrote:Nibbana exists where, and how?kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists.
- Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:30 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Nibbana
- Replies: 114
- Views: 31652
Re: Nibbana
Really? Does a dhatu exist or not exist?Element wrote:Buddha said Nibbana was a dhatu or element.kowtaaia wrote:Nibbana exists.
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:35 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Nibbana
- Replies: 114
- Views: 31652
Re: Nibbana
There's only one way to find out for sure, right?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
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:28 pm
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Nibbana
- Replies: 114
- Views: 31652
Re: Nibbana
Nibbana exists.
- 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."
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."
- 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?
Ya think? Of course, the Buddha never said that. Awakening has nothing to do with gender.Elohim wrote:... Perhaps the Buddha himself never said that women are inferior to men...