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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 737
Re: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
In hindsight, I regret that, and wish I trusted Ajahn Lee and Thanissaro's instructions to consciously breathe in a way to spread out breath sensations throughout the whole body. What is breath sensation? As soon as you find that your breathing feels comfortable, let this comfortable breath sensati...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 737
Re: Do we need to make an effort to control or should we not try to control our breathing during meditation?
how do you observe the breath without controlling? You breathe automatically. Just notice it, and continue to notice it. Around the nostrils helps. If to become aware of the breathing, it becomes gradually into manual one. Breath is stopped and there develops the suffering from craving to breath, w...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
Sorry I don't understand the question? Is fire, cold.. an aggregate? and is the kaya, in that sutta quote, referring to aggregates? i tagged you since you might have a comment. They are aggregates, which have been mistaken for enduring substances. okay, ----- what wikipedia says According to Buddha...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
Is fire, cold.. an aggregate? and is the kaya, in that sutta quote, referring to aggregates?
i tagged you since you might have a comment.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
What depends on each other is "hard, soft, cold, hot" etc etc rather than "fire, houses, cars, people". Ok, that is logical. One time, sir, I approached Pakudha Kaccāyana and exchanged greetings with him. .. He said: Evaṁ vutte, bhante, pakudho kaccāyano maṁ etadavoca: ‘Great ki...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
The point is that there really isn't a chariot. The same for an atta. Its just a label we use when certain conditions are met. There really isn't fire, true, but it sure exist when conditions are present. There is colour and heat but no fire can be found, to give a simplified reply from a CT POV. T...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
I'd have to disagree with all of this Ok, chariot is made of different parts in a certain way. Likewise, when aggregates are in a certain way there is a being. Curious then why some here say they can't find the self? you can find the chariot, sit an ride on it.. The point is that there really isn't...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
I'd have to disagree with all of this 28. So in many hundred suttas it is only mentality-materiality that is illustrated, not a being, not a person. Therefore, just as when the component parts such as axles, wheels, frame poles, etc., are arranged in a certain way, there comes to be the mere term o...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
Coming back to the OP, it reminded me of this passage towards the end of MN1. Seeing things directly, rather than seeing things as objects experienced by a self? Does the eyes see or the mind see. Neither. It is addressed in Katthavatthu and Visuddhimagga. Consciousness arises dependent on the eye-...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Identity View
- Replies: 317
- Views: 11089
Re: Identity View
Narada Mahathera in the abhidhamma book defines sakkaya ditthi, Sakkàya-diññhi—sati + kàye + diññhi—literally, view when a group exists. if you compare it to vajira sutta, So too, when the aggregates are present Evaṁ khandhesu santesu, ‘sentient being’ is the convention we use. hoti sattoti sammuti....
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Did the Buddha teach we have choice? (aka The Great Free Will v Determinism Debate)
- Replies: 1015
- Views: 344139
Re: Suttas that show the Buddha taught free will
1. The view that all actions are predetermined is an equivalent to the view, that suffering is (completely) caused by uncontrollable (outer) circumstances -> Annihilationism . 2. The view that there is a free will is an equivalent to the view that suffering is (completely) caused by Oneself -> Eter...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Why the root of nobility is little discussed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 88
Why the root of nobility is little discussed
Here is a sutta, “Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks of falling asleep unmindful and unaware. “Pañcime, bhikkhave, ādīnavā muṭṭhassatissa asampajānassa niddaṁ okkamayato. What five? Katame pañca? You sleep badly and wake miserably. You have bad dreams. The deities don’t protect you. And you ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: visible spirit body
- Replies: 6
- Views: 172
Re: visible spirit body
None of my meditation teachers seemed to have been interested in my penis, so perhaps you could explain the link with Theravada? This section is about connections to other paths... Sutta mentioning semen. Losing semen is sign of not having mindfulness. “Mendicants, there are these five drawbacks of...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: visible spirit body
- Replies: 6
- Views: 172