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- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Right livelihood
- Replies: 9
- Views: 298
Re: Right livelihood
I enjoy my livelihood. There was a time when I wanted to be a monastic, when I was quite young. Today, the idea of having so much free time to formally sit and meditate isn’t appealing to me. Is there any job that isn’t an impediment? Sure. Security. If you’ve got a good client, like an energy prov...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Right livelihood
- Replies: 9
- Views: 298
Re: Right livelihood
Most paid jobs require the wrong speech and wrong action to some extent.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2836
Re: Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging?
Greetings Peter, He taught not to judge. I disagree, although most would translate it as "discerning" or "discernment". I have some trouble understanding you here. In what sense did the Buddha teach discernment, when keeping in mind the Bahiya sutta? Bahiya Sutta is quite unique...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Craving and intention
- Replies: 24
- Views: 876
Re: Craving and intention
I have come across quite a few times in several nikaya materials that I will interpret as support of the unconscious concept of modern psychology. I am afraid they would not be inline with the four noble truths, considering that the way the Buddha defines "Sabba" rules out unconscious min...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Hearing without ear-consciousness, jhana, verbalization.
- Replies: 58
- Views: 1901
Re: Hearing without ear-consciousness, jhana, verbalization.
Hello all, In Vimuttimagga (new translation) under " 51 Miscellaneous topics " it has these interesting quotes “Cessation”: For one who has entered upon the first jhāna, verbalization has ceased... “Gradual cessation of sounds”: One who has entered upon the first jhāna hears sounds but do...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2836
Re: Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging?
Greetings, Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging? If so what is the Pali word for it? Can you give some reference? :thinking: He taught not to judge. I disagree, although most would translate it as "discerning" or "discernment". And not just "dhammas", but people...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Did Buddha teach about judgement or judging?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2836
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Craving and intention
- Replies: 24
- Views: 876
Re: Craving and intention
Sometimes contemplating the dhamma in Pali words will further confuse you unless it is your mother tongue. Right intention is also translated as right thoughts. Intention refer to the quality of the thoughts as either beneficial in enlightenment or not or a mix. Our defilements are stratified into ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Craving and intention
- Replies: 24
- Views: 876
Re: Craving and intention
Venerables and Friends, In Buddha dhamma, is craving intentional? Thank you :anjali: Sometimes contemplating the dhamma in Pali words will further confuse you unless it is your mother tongue. Right intention is also translated as right thoughts. Intention refer to the quality of the thoughts as eit...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How are the Four Noble Truths "understood"? - and other things
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2708
Re: How are the Four Noble Truths "understood"? - and other things
Greetings Form, Do you mean that DO (ignorance and defilements ) must be understood in conjunction with cravings? . Dependent origination explains the arising of tanha (craving)... Avijjapaccaya sankhara, sankharapaccaya vinnanam, vinnanam napaccay namarupam, namarupapaccaya salayatanam, salayatana...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How are the Four Noble Truths "understood"? - and other things
- Replies: 62
- Views: 2708
Re: How are the Four Noble Truths "understood"? - and other things
Greetings, The Four Noble Truths are:- dukkha (suffering), samudaya (arising), nirodha (cessation), magga (path). I think SN 12.10 is an excellent sutta to help us get an understanding of samudaya (arising) and nirodha (cessation) , which I think are commonly misunderstood and misrepresented. Note ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Analysis of the Elements
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1659
Re: The Analysis of the Elements
MN 140 said birds of same feathers will flock together.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Analysis of the Elements
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1659
Re: The Analysis of the Elements
My approach to this sutta has always been using the five aggregates as the corner stones. All formations are the five aggregates within aggregates and we all know what are their characteristics. Using words to describe meditation especially advanced meditation can be tricky because they simply desc...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Analysis of the Elements
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1659
Re: The Analysis of the Elements
My approach to this sutta has always been using the five aggregates as the corner stones. All formations are the five aggregates within aggregates and we all know what are their characteristics. Using words to describe meditation especially advanced meditation can be tricky because they simply descr...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Perception in different context of the nikaya. Question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 427
Re: Perception in different context of the nikaya. Question
Thank you Sam. There is a sutta in AN (book 6, 75(1) that reveals six things that lead to happiness this life. Thought of renunciation, thought of good will and thought of harmlessness. Then the next three is perception of renunciation, perception of good will and harmlessness. Can you share with m...