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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Enlightenment is genetic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 162
Re: Enlightenment is genetic
I disagree. So does the Buddha. Maybe it flatters certain narcissists' egos to believe they were born with Bodhi, but it's a lie.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1974
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
This whole "any mindfulness is good mindfulness" presumes that all applications of the very general term "mindfulness"/sati are wholesome. It presumes that there is no wrong samādhi, wrong dhyāna, etc., that is actively bad for you to be engaging in.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Aniccaṃ = Impermanent
- Replies: 16
- Views: 420
Re: Aniccaṃ = Impermanent
Greetings in Dhamma! I am currently engaging with a member of the Waharaka movement in Sri Lanka, which have some quite unorthodox philological takes of certain Pāḷi words with which I do not agree. Among their peculiar interpretations is that aniccaṃ ultimately refers to “non-liking” or “not accor...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
- Topic: European Buddhism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 568
Re: European Buddhism
Too many Vespas.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
- Replies: 24
- Views: 869
Re: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
Does it not say: 眼等五識身有染有離染。色無色界具六識身。五種色根肉團爲體。眼不見色。耳不聞聲。鼻不嗅香。舌不嘗味。身不覺觸。在等引位有發語言。 The eye and suchlike, the five vijñānakāyas, are [both] defiled and undefiled. In the Rūpadhātu and Ārūpyadhātu, there is endowment with six vijñānakāyas. Five varieties of these are of rūpa, for their basis is the amal...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11097
Re: Identity View
No barrister would act for me on that basis! Personhood is non-consentual as a matter of law. It doesn't matter if one doesn't consent to being considered or labelled as "a person," they simply "are one," legally-speaking. It's funny to frame it that way: the damnable wicked god...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11097
Re: Identity View
Yes, yes. The incoherent thesis held by some, namely " I have no self," is occasionally listed among the mistaken views in various exegeses of the Dharma. It's not because the notion of "no self" is somehow secretly and magically a "self view." To suggest so would be li...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11097
Re: Identity View
Agreed! Nobody has personality. There is no owner. A very good way of putting it. I largely agree with the both of you, but "the person" is a trickier thorn to extract than this. Yes, we can point out that no particular person is the personal "owner" of "personality" i...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
- Replies: 24
- Views: 869
Re: Jhāna in the Śāriputrābhidharma-śāstra
I think at some point they all shared one Abhidharma consisting of the core of the Vibhaṅga, Dharmaskandha and this Śāriputrābhidharma. That's possible , but if we're willing to admit this contention, then we should also consider the IMO more likely possibility of there being a now-lost historical ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:52 am
- Forum: Family Life and Relationships
- Topic: What to do with 300$?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 798
Re: What to do with 300$?
Give it to the poor. Do not seek to amass treasures in the worldly realm of the earth, for when the earth shakes your horde, piled high, will topple; when the seas rise, they will seep your treasures away; when the wind raises a furor it will scatter them to the four directions; and when the fires r...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1601
Re: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
If I’m misunderstanding them when they said nibbana is nothing please do post something of their texts to the contrary, or texts which discuss them. Extinction of rebecoming does not result in nothing Ok, but what did the Sautrantikas say according to your sources? That’s what we are discussing at ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Popularity of Mahāyāna
- Replies: 12
- Views: 488
Re: Popularity of Mahāyāna
In my experience Mahāyāna is more prevalent and popular in the west. Why do you think this is? Is "Mahāyāna" really more prominent in the West? It has some big media exposure that Theravāda doesn't, but the watered-down generico-spirituo New Age Buddhisms practiced in the West are sometim...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1601
Re: Disparities and Similitudes between Śrāvakayāna and Mahāyāna
not a state of mind. Your fortune cookie mysticism “There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor non-perception; there, there is neither this world nor the oth...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 259
Re: What were the guḷhaganthaṃ?
Can we see the reference in-context?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Abhidharmadharmaskandhapādaśāstra
- Replies: 15
- Views: 517
Re: Abhidharmadharmaskandhapādaśāstra
An AI translation of a section of the Sarvāstivādin Dharmaskandha, which is quite an old Abhidharma text sharing some content in common with the Theravādin Vibhaṅga. Consider: ekāgratā of the mind is a universal caitasika by both Vaibhāṣika and Dārṣṭāntika Sarvāstivādin reckonings. This means that ...