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...

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...

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...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:48 pm

auto wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:44 pm
The substance here is kaya. Does it mean that the earth, fire.. are not kaya(aggregates?)?

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.

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...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:29 pm What depends on each other is "hard, soft, cold, hot" etc etc rather than "fire, houses, cars, people".

Ok, that is logical.

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

SarathW wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:27 am What is personal spirit?
Is that the spirit going from one body to another as Daoism?

i guess yes. Tho, the cultivation progress can be all lost due mistakes and not know correct methods. If immortal it doesn't go to another body.