Dhamma Wheel

Cessation means come to an end. I am not convinced contact can come to an end as long as one's sensory doors are still intact and active when one is alive. To make it even more confusing, the Buddha has ever told Ananda that even after nibbana, there will still be consciousness. The sensory doors/s...

Cessation means come to an end. I am not convinced contact can come to an end as long as one's sensory doors are still intact and active when one is alive.

To make it even more confusing, the Buddha has ever told Ananda that even after nibbana, there will still be consciousness.

Cessation of contact means all the six sense doors have failed to function or have malfunction?

Paranimmitavasavatti.

What does the above word means in pali? Mara?

befriend wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:12 pm The brahma viharas have an added bonus compared to a kasina because they give spiritual happiness and also decrease aversive mental attitudes.

Brahma Viharas is a set of foir attributes linearly align with the set of 4 immaterial objects in a SN sutta.

I ever come across is table of analysis from the Pak au tradition that has every object align with a certain highest Jhana possible to attain using it.

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:21 pm It goes by temperament.

Some objects out of the 40 mentioned in v magga are rarely used nowadays.

Are they created equal or are some more superior than others?

In the doctrine Mara isn't called "entity". So how come you are associating "entity"? I read before either Buddha or Moggallana recalled in past life Mara is their nephew. On one occasion, Moggallana once discovered Mara hiding in his intestines and Mara exclaimed even the Buddha dun discovered him...

Is there really an entity called Mara? In the doctrine Mara isn't called "entity". So how come you are associating "entity"? I read before either Buddha or Moggallana recalled in past life Mara is their nephew. On one occasion, Moggallana once discovered Mara hiding in his intestines and Mara excla...

He can walk on water, go in and out of the ground as he wishes, fly like a bird in the air....... something like these in the Vishiddhimagga?

My friend told me he has psychic power. He said, if not how did he lead 100+ people to escape under the noise of the communist army. Why would he have needed psychic power to escape? Lots of other people escaped over the Himalayas into India from different places in Tibet as well, including the lat...

My friend told me he has psychic power. He said, if not how did he lead 100+ people to escape under the noise of the communist army.

I know what is the meaning of faith (I prefer the word confidence though) in the dhamma. I would like to know how to define faith in the Buddha and sangha?

No one is qualified to certify if another has entered the Theravada path or not. And technically there is no such thing as the Theravada path, there is only the eight fold path.