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by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:24 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?
Replies: 106
Views: 10221

Re: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?

Have you read Abhidhamma yourself? If yes which book? Did you understand all the teaching in Abhidhamma? It's an ongoing study. Right now I am interested in the Patthana. I am studying it with the help of Rerukane Chandawimala Maha Thero's Patthan Maha pakarana Sannaya . And of course there are tal...
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:23 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?
Replies: 106
Views: 10221

Re: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?

SarathW wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:59 am How do you know that I am ignorant of Abhidhamma?
I think you have misunderstood my comment.

:anjali:
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:20 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?
Replies: 106
Views: 10221

Re: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?

Have you read Abhidhamma yourself? If yes which book? Did you understand all the teaching in Abhidhamma? It's an ongoing study. Right now I am interested in the Patthana. I am studying it with the help of Rerukane Chandawimala Maha Thero's Patthana Maha pakarana Sannaya . And of course there are ta...
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:42 am
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?
Replies: 106
Views: 10221

Re: Keep away from Mahamuna sect in Sri Lanka?

@SarathW Before you get all the Abhidhamma/Commentary nescients on your head, please listen to the first video in the following playlist(Which is an audiobook of Ven Gnanananda Thero's translation of the Dhammapada). You can listen for your self the Venerables introduction to this book and his views...
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:51 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Are 'Focusing' Meditations Wrong?
Replies: 14
Views: 1038

Re: Are 'Focusing' Meditations Wrong?

Problems with language.

Let me use 'focus' in a more positive sense.

Focus means having the freedom to engage in the work at hand, explore where it leads.

Focus means collecting the dispersed mental energies in to a powerful force.

Focus means the nature of an undistracted mind.
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:56 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

Greetings, Can you please provide pali terms for what's highlighted below. Sutta Reponse: Never in the Suttas are materiality referred to as "dhammas". Dhammas are phenomena, whereas materiality is noumena. Instead, materiality is represented in the Sutta via mahabhuta (great elements). A...
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:46 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

Greetings, Unfortunately the redirection did not make clear to me your wording in Argument #1 See the paragraph starting with the words "As I said..." Metta, Paul. :) That's not what I'm asking right now. Just the pali terms for what's highlighted below. Sutta Reponse: Never in the Suttas...
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:36 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

Greetings Srilankaputra, Common Abhidhamma Argument #1 - Mentality and materiality are paramattha dhammas (i.e. ultimate dhammas) Sutta Reponse: Never in the Suttas are materiality referred to as "dhammas". Dhammas are phenomena, whereas materiality is noumena. Instead, materiality is rep...
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 8:29 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

Common Abhidhamma Argument #1 - Mentality and materiality are paramattha dhammas (i.e. ultimate dhammas) Sutta Reponse: Never in the Suttas are materiality referred to as "dhammas". Dhammas are phenomena, whereas materiality is noumena. Instead, materiality is represented in the Sutta via...
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:07 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Is it possible that we may be practicing Vipassana without knowing it?
Replies: 12
Views: 1779

Re: Is it possible that we may be practicing Vipassana without knowing it?

I like this word 'bhāvanā' or development. Conventionally speaking, if your trials are making you stronger, this is bhāvanā. Just a little fun fact. In traditional medicine, for some preparations, they take the juice of plants and put it out in the sun, so that the unnecessary stuff evaporates away...
by Srilankaputra
Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:26 am
Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
Topic: Is it possible that we may be practicing Vipassana without knowing it?
Replies: 12
Views: 1779

Re: Is it possible that we may be practicing Vipassana without knowing it?

I like this word 'bhāvanā' or development. Conventionally speaking, if your trials are making you stronger, this is bhāvanā.
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:19 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

retrofuturist wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:12 am I'm just presenting what is in the Sutta and how I understand it.
:anjali:
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:57 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

What i am asking is where does these phenemona occur? In the human mind? I don't consider "where" to be a particular useful means of assessing Dhamma, but in the mind is as good an answer as any, since that's where the avijja is. Ah, now we finally cut to the chase. I don't know if you re...
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:32 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

Greetings, And what is the sutta term for noumena? For all intents and purposes it is mahabhuta, since they are the great elements recognised in this Dhamma. I am unsure of whether the Buddha introduced a specific technical term directly corresponding to the noumenic quality of the mahabhuta. How i...
by Srilankaputra
Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:34 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Replies: 829
Views: 37203

Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma

retrofuturist wrote: Sat Jun 12, 2021 6:26 am Greetings,

Very much so, hence their usage, and my comment to Sarath above that the rūpa of nama-rupa is always rupasañña (phenomena) and not materiality (nounemena)

Metta,
Paul. :)
Thanks. Few questions,

And what is the sutta term for noumena?

What is it that perceives Rupa?