Dhamma Wheel

...that principle of mitigation of vice... It seems like a stretch to infer such a principle from the sutta. For example, I don't think the result of thievery is mitigated by not raping. The sutta, as it stands, seems to me to be less about morality and more about skillfulness -- in this case, a th...

SarathW wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:50 am

wearing the defilements of the people

Agree...

I thought defilements were qualities of heart/mind?
(Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.)

Dhammanando wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:02 pm

JohnK wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 5:57 pm I suppose I am just being nit-picky about your enthusiastic wording.

They are actually Ajahn Sumedho's words, not floatsy's.

Oops!
(But no retraction -- centrality, but not necessarily sufficiency.)

This one sutta contains all that is necessary for understanding Dhamma and for enlightenment. I certainly agree about the centrality of the sutta, but if it were really "all that is necessary," there would not be so many other suttas, right? I suppose I am just being nit-picky about your enthusiast...

...Thanks to family, teachers, and kids at school I got into bad habits early on about not believing I deserved anything... So, you already have a sense that this self-view is conditioned (vs. "who you are"). That seems like a good first step -- no need to believe your belief. (I suspect you want h...

You might look into Bhikkhu Analayo's book, Mindfully Facing Disease and Death . https://www.windhorsepublications.com/product/mindfully-facing-disease-and-death-compassionate-advice-from-early-buddhist-texts/ For example, the chapter "Conclusion and Meditation Instructions," includes instructions b...

retrofuturist wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:15 am Knowing release

Good
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...I was wondering how can you be happy for someone else when you don't have what he/she has, which is the hard bit?... How? There is no quick fix, only by following the whole Noble Eightfold Path, which is designed to get beyond such things by seeing the dukkha in attachment to achievements (espec...

What's on your Raft ☸🚣? I have spent quite a few days in the last few weeks on my raft here in Wyoming (USA). The thread title made me think: what are the most critical things on my raft? Appropriate attention and discernment seem the most critical -- recognizing hazards (the unwholesome) as well a...

Thanks for your moderation, SDC; enjoy the letting go.
I have appreciated your contributions.

Vakkali -- 5:8 Stay in the Grove Stricken by sharp, wind-like pains, you, monk, living in the forest grove —harsh, with limited range for alms— what, what will you do? Suffusing my body with abundant rapture & joy, & enduring what’s harsh, I’ll stay in the grove. Developing the establishings of mind...

1:14 Vanavaccha's pupil:

...My body stays in the village;
my mind has gone to the wilds.
... There's no tying down
one who knows.

1:13 Vanavaccha The color of blue-dark clouds, glistening, cooled with the waters of clear-flowing streams covered with ladybugs: Those rocky crags refresh me. [/b] https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thag/thag1_13.html :namaste: From within both 11 Sankicca and 18 Maha Kassapa With clear waters ...

Perhaps:
On first hearing the teaching, I think it is easier to see/recognize/acknowledge one's craving than to see/recognize/acknowledge one's ignorance.
Edit: similar to mike's "clearest link" idea.

Somewhat related: I've been reading Shaila Catherine's Wisdom Wide and Deep . In discussing kasina practice, for example on "whiteness," one is focused on whiteness to the exclusion of everything else, but gradually expands that perception of whiteness to the point of its limitlessness, including th...