Greetings. The catchy thread title is just for illustrative purposes. Under the premise that kamma is intention: Take the case of the religious person who, convinced that his intentions are righteous, kills or orders to kill many people. He has no evil intention in doing so. He also has a religious...

Also, what is "masculine and feminine"? the psychophysical expression for the characteristics proper of the male and female. It can be masculine, femenine, or an indetermination regarding both. Besides masculine and femenine there is not a third one. It doesn't exist, nobody can find it. ...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:06 pm Greetings everyone,

In the Abdhidhamma and related commentaries I believe masculine and feminine are classed under matter. Are masculine and feminine thus ultimate realities?

What is "ultimate realities"?

Also, what is "masculine and feminine"?

... https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc2.pdf The Community, if it wants to, may impose a reconciliation transaction on a bhikkhu endowed with any of the following qualities:.... One: Community here means the Community of bhikkhus, does it not? And specifically, the Community ...

Please consider an archive in the absolutist sense of the word: Everything would be allowed; nothing would be destroyed. The sites’ rules are respectful of copyright and other laws, but otherwise do not restrict the content of artwork at all. In fact, they actively forbid complaining about content a...

Doesn't seem as though the slave class were prohibited from ordaining in ancient India, which is the time period being discussed in this thread. They were not allowed to ordain, unless permitted by their owner. In the examination of a candidate before ordination one of the questions is: “Are you a ...

Slavery is a corrupting practice. It depends on renouncement of the Holy Life, renouncement of renouncement itself.

May every life have the requisites, full stop. Why shouldn't they?

It's not so much what anatta looks like. It's what atta doesn't look like. As one meditates with a concentrated undeviating, no intentional movement, still, body-mind phenomenon one becomes aware of anicca, the continual flux, always changing changing changing phenomena being born and dying, contin...

Non-arahants: Whatever person(s) perceived are illusions, delusions, fabricated from the burden of the conceit "I am" and a lot else of not-seeing-things-as-they-are. They are shorthand, for mental actions which have been done/occurred. Any assumption is going to cause difficulty, if taken...

Right and wrong are based on self-view, i.e. something must be right or wrong, which is not Nibbana. I don't know in which sutta's this is mentioned, but if so, I can only guess for the reason the writers wrote that.. although it could have something to do with people wanting to maintain power by p...

But this quote came as a surprise, mostly because I didn't expect to see the words 'computing' and 'calculation' in a book from more than 2000 years ago. So I'm skeptical that the translation is accurate, in the sense that the 'computing' they talk about is probably not the 'computing' that we talk...

To get to Nibbana, one needs to understand Dependent Origination to liberate the intellect, for that, mundane right view is necessary, which is nothing more than understanding DO. Upon fully understanding DO, one realizes that there is no right and wrong anymore. So there is no difference in mundan...

Hello everyone. I've just started listening to the Pali Canon. In Brahmajāla Sutta , verse 25, it says: Whereas some recluses and brahmins, while living on the food offered by the faithful, earn their living by a wrong means of livelihood, by such debased arts as predicting: there will be abundant ...

I don't think you see the problem.

Nothing else to say for now but, best wishes for you and all beings.

....simetimes not im not sure sotapanna has no doubt about the path. sotapanna is sure :ugeek: i never declared that i am this or that... Who can have/apply supermundane Right View? ... If we apply super mundane right view, then ... I am quoting out of context because the rest of that post and thre...