Lately I've noticed Dictionaries are competing with Buddha Dhamma. It is pointless continuing with this dispute. Greetings Pulsar, A few days ago I said that almost everyone here has the conviction that they have right view. Some will even go as far as to doubt conventional language to uphold their...

Greetings Peter, You are non-sequitur and ridiculous. Please try harder. Metta, Paul. :) Greetings Paul, It is easy to mistake the 6th Jhana for Nibbana, especially when one beliefs in a god. It is hard to shake that, especially when your social life is tied to it. You're right that DO is about ide...

Do you agree? If you read the OP carefully, the topic is not a general smash-and-grab about what is or is not in line with the Dhamma, but more about the value of making such judgments about any given approach. Greetings, I have read the OP, so what Ceisiwr brought forward is precisely an example o...

I am very curious why the last couple of posts got deleted, because as far as I can tell it was very ontopic, and even if not, why did they got deleted? Ceisiwr made a valid point without being rude. So unless we are not allowed to say that Christianity is not buddhadhamma, I don't see any valid re...

I am very curious why the last couple of posts got deleted, because as far as I can tell it was very ontopic, and even if not, why did they got deleted? Ceisiwr made a valid point without being rude. So unless we are not allowed to say that Christianity is not buddhadhamma, I don't see any valid rea...

Greetings Peter, What you experience and what you touch are not one and the same thing. Your experience is your experience. The thing touched is the thing touched. Why do you conflate the two? Metta, Paul. :) Greetings, I experience touch. If you however are of the opinion that you don't experience...

PeterC86 wrote Greetings, Well you are the one who is alluding to the claim that matter is somehow not appearing to us. No one on this thread alluded to the claim that we are blind, deaf, etc . Greetings, That is exactly what you are doing when you say that "it is incorrect to call matter phen...

In SN 12.65 it is explained that consciousness and name & form are intertwined, and that on the night of his awakening the Buddha couldn't trace the link any further back. When there was consciousness there was name & form, when there was name & form there was consciousness. “Then, bhik...

Greetings Peter, This all doesn't explain anything. It does actually. That's why the Buddha taught it. Of course name is attention, hence phenomena (form) originate from attention End your sentence there. Name is not form, and form is not name. Based upon the coming together of name and form, the m...

Greetings Peter, Well as I said, all the different prominent dictionaries, and also most people on this forum for that matter, are all in agreement on what phenomenon means, but it seems that you and Pulsar are upholding a different meaning, so maybe you can elaborate on that meaning so that we may...

Greetings Peter, I'm not sure what else there is to said. Phenomena's meaning is as per its etymology. It's the same as what we know and mean by the Pali word (lower case) "dhamma". Greetings, Well as I said, all the different prominent dictionaries, and also most people on this forum for...

Greetings, It is incorrect to call matter phenomena. what the term phenomenon refers to in dictionaries. late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek phainomenon ‘thing appearing to view’, based on phainein ‘to show’. Greetings, Maybe you can explain what your (and Pulsar's?) meaning of phenomenon ...

Pulsar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:41 pm It is incorrect to call matter phenomena.

Greetings,

It seems that you need to read up on what the general consensus is on what the term phenomenon refers to in dictionaries.

Warm regards,
Peter

I only wanted you to explain Dependent Origination. Greetings, You asked me what non-clinging involves.. In Flower vagga Buddha clearly says Rupa in DO is a phenomenon. That is what I am trying to explain in this topic; forms are phenomena; the elements are phenomena. How could they not be? Warm re...

PeterC86 wrote As long as you understand that they are also just concepts, dependently arisen , describing something experienced through the senses; sound, touch, smell, taste, sight, thought; they are also empty. So no need to cling to them either. Dearest PeterC86: It is easier said than done. Is...