Mkoll wrote:Both suttas I quoted are from the Buddha.

Both suttas you quoted are merely words from a book or internet page & are contrary to Buddhist liberation.

My personal view is the planet earth, elements (dhatu) & aggregates are not mind-made. According to Buddhist teaching mind (Vinnana) and matter (Nama Rupa) are depend on each other. This seems only in certain contexts, when referring to 'conditioning by ignorance' or 'paccaya' (e.g. SN 12.67). ...

Consciousness is an aggregate, just like form, volition, etc. Do not make the fisherman son mistake of thinking "there is this consciousness that goes from this life to the other". There is not a consciousness that "sees all this diversity". The suttas seem to say "appearan...

In the following video (Sinhala language)Ven Thithagalle Anandasiri argues that the whole world is mind made. According to him my family, country...David, Trump, queen, Buddha, my enemy etc are all a product of my own mind. My personal view is these conceptual 'births' of various 'beings' ('sattāna...

Ah, if only tiltbillings were still posting... :jumping: the doctrine of kamma is a moral doctrine polluted [/color]by egoism & attachment Rejection of the doctrine of kamma is part of wrong view. The doctrine of kamma is part of right view. The doctrine of kamma is a moral doctrine polluted by...

Where can I find more buddhist literature on this subject ?? Some readings here (I have not read): Ministering to the Sick and the Terminally Ill http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/desilva/bl132.html Using Meditation to Deal with Pain, Illness & Death http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/...

Where can I find more buddhist literature on this subject ?? There is lots. For who, looking after this body, would claim even a moment of true health, except through sheer foolishness? So you should train yourself: 'Even though I may be afflicted in body, my mind will be unafflicted.' That is how ...

a) The Buddhist path is the Middle Way between sensual indulgence and self-mortification. If there as injury or sickness that requires attention, it should be taken care of as best as possible. b) The core doctrine of Buddhism is non-attachment (rather than prayer). In the Culatanhasankhaya Sutta , ...

Theravada: Buddha The eye is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. Forms... Eye-consciousness... Eye-contact is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self. "The ear is empty... "The nose is empty... "The tongue is empty... "The body is empty... "The i...

Sun-atta = An-atta. The use of "Sun" and "An" prefix quite possibly denote "lack of". The words are 'sunna-ta' ('empty-state') and 'an-atta' ('not-self'). The word 'atta' ('self') is not found in 'sunnata'. Nagarjuna does not take the approach of Ven. Sariputta or the ...

But does the earth element persist even in saṃvartasthāyikalpāni (aeons between world-systems) after saṃvartakalpāni? On the other thread, the purpose of my discussing the earth element was to break the clinging to rigid views rather than to discuss physics, astrology & the origins of matter. I...

Can you explain me more about "huge spontaneous 'catharsis'" ? This is just the self-correcting mechanism of the mental-biological organism. For example, when individuals are addicted to drugs & enter cold-turkey to overcome the addiction, the organism, via abstinence , purges the tox...

If earth has a permanent quality of being earth and cannot vanish into nothing, then that makes the earth element permanent. Something that cannot cease is permanent, and this is contrary to the Buddha's fundamental insight that all conditioned phenomena are to be regarded as impermanent, unsatisfy...

Because they are hypostatizations of themselves in the minds of the practitioner, which is the context of the quote in question. Let me put it another way, since the Nāgārjuna view favours Nibbana. Samsara is always hypostatization. There can be no samsara without hypostatization. Therefore samsara...

Because they are hypostatizations of themselves in the minds of the practitioner. Exactly, which is how this thread was originally responded to & why Nāgārjuna's idea of Nirvana is probably wrong. Nibbana is the end of greed, hatred & delusion. What it actually is is 100% unrelated to its c...