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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 26
- Views: 273
Re: Momentariness
It's about anicca, momentariness is just a way of understanding anicca in my opinion. Yes momentariness is all about understanding impermanence, dukkha and the lack of substance. How are indivisible discrete moments not 'substances' or 'atoms' or 'entities'? In AC current electricity flows by hoppi...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 26
- Views: 273
Re: Momentariness
- Uttarattheragāthā Translation by K.R. Norman. Does this suggest momentariness here? Define 'moment' An occurrence of a sense object, sense-base, contact and sense consciousness. Kshana in buddhism is the moment , said as time period between two thoughts. It is also the time and space between two ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 26
- Views: 273
Re: Momentariness
- Uttarattheragāthā Translation by K.R. Norman. Does this suggest momentariness here? Define 'moment' An occurrence of a sense object, sense-base, contact and sense consciousness. Kshana in buddhism is the moment , said as time period between two thoughts. It is also the time and space between two ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Momentariness
- Replies: 26
- Views: 273
Re: Re:
When anicca is truly known by means of insight meditation, as opposed to ideation or book knowledge, momentariness is also known as continual change, a flux, or stream, of processes. On a gross level the verses quoted refer to samsara. Rebirth, again and again. There's not much ideation or book kno...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Panathi patha
- Replies: 1
- Views: 77
Panathi patha
A father of 3kids in a bushy area kills a serpent that enters the house instead of his knowing it is a sin. His motive or cetana is the safety of the children. What is the outcome or weight of his papa karma or cetana.
Need the view as the motive seems to be safety of the kids.
Need the view as the motive seems to be safety of the kids.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Far side of compassion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 429
Re: Far side of compassion
Feel free to comment, but I was only asking for the sutta, if people could recall it. :anjali: As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Far side of compassion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 429
Re: Far side of compassion
Another request for help in finding a sutta. I recently heard someone talking about a sutta in which someone asks what is beyond, or on the far side of, compassion (and possible the other brahmaviharas?) I remember reading something like this some time ago. Can anyone recall it, please? But without...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2080
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
So then shouldn’t we start this path from the position “I claim this body”? The presence of appropriation and ownership is the result of the presence of ignorance, it is not a matter of choice: if there is ignorance, there is appropriation and ownership. Isn’t this the ideology of kamma? Kamma is a...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:02 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2080
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Indra’s Pillar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 367
Re: Indra’s Pillar
Originally there was probably a religious significance, relating to the Vedic god. But the term is used in a positive sense elsewhere, not just as some kind of obstacle to be uprooted or overthrown. In Dhp's Arahantavagga, for example, we have: Undisturbed like the earth, Pathavisamo no virujjhati,...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Simplicity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 332
Re: Simplicity
I find these verses to be quite inspiring, as a reminder to not get too lost in debates and discussions. “Here came Kokanada, Pajjunna’s daughter, Beautiful as the gleam of lightning. Venerating the Buddha and the Dhamma, She spoke these verses full of meaning. “Though the Dhamma is of such a natur...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 239
Re: How can Annica Dukkha Annata exists with kamma vipaka?
"Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect. " AN 6.63 Are intentions permanent or impermanent? Since they are clearly impermanent, can intentions define a person? To my knowledge, yes. One who has pure intentions are those with kusa...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:34 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2080
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
I think the issue here is the word "owned". We own car and no matter how well we look after it we can't prevent it from deteriorating or breaking down, our body is like this. The problem is that we not only believe we own the body in the way we own a car we identify the body as me, which ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2080
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
When you own something you control it. You do whatever you want with it because it's yours. If you can't be in full control, you might notice that then it isn't so true that it's fully yours. To be yours seems to be more like a matter of speak, it works if we put aside the fact that you can't fully...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path is in
- Replies: 15
- Views: 416
Re: The three aggregates are not included under the noble eightfold path, friend Visakha, but the noble eightfold path i
The noble eightfold path is included under the skandhas. Like every path and every action. I only wish to note here about critsizing the bikkhu Seelavimala (sermoning in video) may have made a mistake or may not have. Yet after listening to the video that his sermon tallied exactly with the sinhala...