Mettā for Myanmar

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"And what, monks, is right view? Knowledge with regard to stress, knowledge with regard to the origination of stress, knowledge with regard to the stopping of stress, knowledge with regard to the way of practice leading to the stopping of stress: This, monks, is called right view. https://www.acces...

a Buddhist commentary could use more Buddhist terms. this may show that the translator was a little distant from Buddhism. The Visuddhimagga refers to the practitioner as a "yogāvacara" ("one who's at home in exertion") nearly as often as it refers to him as a "bhikkhu". The word first appears in t...

Nibbana by Thanissaro Bhikkhu We all know what happens when a fire goes out. The flames die down and the fire is gone for good. So when we first learn that the name for the goal of Buddhist practice, nibbana (nirvana), literally means the extinguishing of a fire, it's hard to imagine a deadlier ima...

No sir. This levitation part is just in a Qand A in the supernormal power chapter. I do not think the translation of the whole book is off because of that. It could have been properly translated but the meaning in the original text is also like that. This has got nothing to do with flying around in...

The term yogin could just mean a trainer in the spiritual path. It does not suggest this is hatha yoga or something like that. a Buddhist commentary could use more Buddhist terms. this may show that the translator was a little distant from Buddhism. for example, flying using the concentration of th...

The answer I saw did not really answer the question. Or maybe I did not understand the translation. There were number of problems like that. For an example: Definitions of some of the phenomena, Divine states, Caste discrimination, Unorthodox opinions ...etc. More infomation: just a note that the V...

Vimuttimagga is the oldest .. So it is closer to the Canon in Pali. and so it can be more reliable. Is the above a good way of judging reliability ? Someone might end up concluding Mahasamghika doctrine as more reliable, If you use this dating technique. many people like Theravada Buddhism because ...

The question in the book is about if one is practising flying using 4th Jhana. Should he succeed in rising to considerable height and lose concentration, will he fell to his death? The answer I saw did not really answer the question. Or maybe I did not understand the translation. How AN 9.35: Gavi ...

SDC wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:19 am

retrofuturist wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:33 am

:reading: The foremost of my monk disciples who went forth out of faith is Raṭṭhapāla. - AN 1.210 I would like to start off with a scriptural profile of Raṭṭhapāla. Born into the leading brahmin family in the town of Thullakoṭṭhita, a young Raṭṭhapāla wishes to go forth upon hearing the Buddha spea...

ToVincent wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:55 pm

Very good these explanations!

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how can deities protect? One explanation.. when you sleep with mindful and conscious attention .. your mind and your subtle body will be connected to the devas protectors .. when you sleep without mindfulness and without awareness ... you can easily be affected by any type of influence, positive or...

By watching on the other side of consciousness... ? There is 1 and 0. There is sound and silence. There is created and uncreated. Between 0 and 1 there is consciousness. 1 is manifested only because there is 0. Sound is manifest only because there is silence. Without silence there is no sound. The ...