Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
And no, it is not intuitive awareness. If that were true, we'd all be awakened. The Buddha said his Dhamma is deep, hard to fathom, to be understood by the wise. It goes against the grain. That's why we need to read the original teachings, and try our best to understand.
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
Alan,
Intuitive Awareness is the title of a book by Ven Sumedho.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/intui ... reness.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Intuitive Awareness is the title of a book by Ven Sumedho.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/intui ... reness.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
And best to read it in the Pali.alan wrote:And no, it is not intuitive awareness. If that were true, we'd all be awakened. The Buddha said his Dhamma is deep, hard to fathom, to be understood by the wise. It goes against the grain. That's why we need to read the original teachings, and try our best to understand.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
No disrespect to him, but do you think that is an appropriate understanding?
I've found nothing in the Suttas to back up this concept.
I've found nothing in the Suttas to back up this concept.
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
What is the Pali word for intuitive awareness?
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
Back up what concept?alan wrote:No disrespect to him, but do you think that is an appropriate understanding?
I've found nothing in the Suttas to back up this concept.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
It could be a paraphrase of this quote from Ajahn Sumedho:tiltbillings wrote:Damdifino. I saw it years ago in a news letter.Aloka wrote:Do you have a source for the Ajahn Sumedho quote, please Tilt ?tiltbillings wrote:One way to approach the issue:
- "We don't use the Pali Canon as a basis for orthodoxy, we use the Pali Canon to investigate our experience." -- Ajahn Sumedho
The Suttas need to be studied, reflected on, and practiced in order to realize their true
meaning. They are not meant to be sacred scriptures which tell us what to believe. One
should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the
present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully
know the Truth beyond words.
Ajahn Sumedho (From his foreword to the Mauríce Walsh translation of Dígha Nikaya)
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
I found it in an online newsletter back in the E-Sandbox days during their "early Buddhism" skirmishes." I used it as part of my signature for awhile, but, alas, I cannot find the original source.David N. Snyder wrote:
It could be a paraphrase of this quote from Ajahn Sumedho
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
Original source for everything is the Suttas. Without the words of the Buddha, we would be nowhere.
This is a basic fact!
This is a basic fact!
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
Everything?alan wrote:Original source for everything is the Suttas. Without the words of the Buddha, we would be nowhere.
This is a basic fact!
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
I don't know if there is but I know this is Reverend Sumedho's translation of sati sampajañña.alan wrote:What is the Pali word for intuitive awareness?
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
In which sutta did the Buddha teach that?alan wrote:Original source for everything is the Suttas. Without the words of the Buddha, we would be nowhere.
This is a basic fact!
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Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
The one that used the expression intuitive awareness.danieLion wrote:In which sutta did the Buddha teach that?alan wrote:Original source for everything is the Suttas. Without the words of the Buddha, we would be nowhere.
This is a basic fact!
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Disregarding the Suttas is the height of arrogance.
From the link Tilt provided:
Intutive Awareness, pp. 136-138Reverend Sumedho wrote:Sometimes Theravàda comes across as annihilationism. You get into this ‘no soul, no God, no self’ fixation, this attachment to a view. Or is the Buddha’s teaching there to be investigated and explored? We are not trying to confirm somebody’s view about the Pàli Canon, but using the Pàli Canon to explore our own experience. It’s a different way of looking at it. If you investigate this a lot, you begin to really see the difference between pure consciousness and when self arises. It’s not hazy or fuzzy — “Is there self now?” — that kind of thing; it’s a clear knowing.