The Heretic Sage- Interview with Bhante Ñāṇananda

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Here is the link to the articles:

http://nidahas.com/featured/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thought some might find it useful. Apologies if this has already been posted before.

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An exceptional guy this Nanananda. Many thanks for that. :bow:
Do you - or anyone else - know perchance how old he is now?
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Hi Dhammabodhi,

Thanks for the reminder. Here is some previous discussion:
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... 120#p93042" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And I've made a lot of use of Ven Nananda's scholarly analyses in the Study Group over the past few months:
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewforum.php?f=25" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
e.g. http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... 55#p113853" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Just a quick read but something about it does not ring true.
Maybe it is just my distrustful nature. Or my lack of Pali. But I'd like know more about this Bkikkhu Yogananda before reading through the entire interview.
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Akuma wrote: Do you - or anyone else - know perchance how old he is now?
Go here.
Early life

Ven. Nanananda was born in 1940 to a Buddhist family in Galle District in Sri Lanka.
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alan wrote:Just a quick read but something about it does not ring true.
Maybe it is just my distrustful nature. Or my lack of Pali. But I'd like know more about this Bkikkhu Yogananda before reading through the entire interview.
Yes, I would also.
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i-ts all a b-it pec-uliar is-nt i-t ?
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alan wrote:Just a quick read but something about it does not ring true.
What do feel doesn't ring true?
PeterB wrote:i-ts all a b-it pec-uliar is-nt i-t ?
What precisely do you find peculiar about it?

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Forget I spoke Geoff. I dont have the neccessary philological, philosophical or historical resources to take a view.
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Hi all,

I have no clue who Bhikkhu Yogananda is and did not try to find out, since I wasn't interested. From his website the only information available is that he is a monk in a forest monastery in Sri Lanka.

Personally I did not find anything fishy in the articles, I was rather struck by their erudite nature.

I do have a question for those who know Pali: what does paccaya mean?

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Dhammabodhi wrote: I do have a question for those who know Pali: what does paccaya mean?
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/Bud ... tm#paccaya" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Paccaya: 'condition', is something on which something else, the so-called 'conditioned thing', is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one occurrence, may be the condition for some other thing, or occurrence. In the Patthāna, the last book of the Abhidhamma Pitaka comprising 6 large vols. in the Siamese edition, these 24 modes of conditionality are enumerated and explained, and then applied to all conceivable mental and physical phenomena and occurrences, and thus their conditioned nature is demonstrated.
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Ñāṇa wrote:
alan wrote:Just a quick read but something about it does not ring true.
What do feel doesn't ring true?
PeterB wrote:i-ts all a b-it pec-uliar is-nt i-t ?
What precisely do you find peculiar about it?
Not necessarily "peculiar" but the author has certain obvious points of view that I suspect are presented in much more black and white terms than Ven Nananda himself would assert.

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mikenz66 wrote:Not necessarily "peculiar" but the author has certain obvious points of view that I suspect are presented in much more black and white terms than Ven Nananda himself would assert.
Such as?

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His interview with Ven. Ñanananda has been included in the 'Nibbana, the Mind Stilled' book.
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Ñāṇa wrote:
mikenz66 wrote:Not necessarily "peculiar" but the author has certain obvious points of view that I suspect are presented in much more black and white terms than Ven Nananda himself would assert.
Such as?

All the best,

Geoff
Such as implying that Ven Nananda has asserted that everything is unreal. I think Ven Nananda's interpretation is a bit more sophisticated than that.

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