but how can there be consciousness when consciousness has come to cessation? Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Seneca I believe that quote is actually from a 1998 song by Semisonic, " Closing Time ," falsely attributed to Seneca. (Semisonic is the current reincarn...

What about premonitions, dreams, and voices? What about the "still, small voice" that Christians follow? Personally I don't believe in Christian theology. But Christians do follow a genuine phenomenon. I'd probably call it a higher self. Its interesting that when Christian monastics say t...

David Reynolds in a speculative metaphysical frame of mind regarding some kind of higher self or “soul” which lets us act according to our ego’s thinking mind and habits and defilements, but which steps in, so to speak, to protect us when our time for dying has not yet come. That would account for ...

Jason wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:07 am The general tendency is to either describe Nibbana as the ending of all consciousness, all awareness

How is that different from annihilationism?

mario92 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:00 am Hello do you recommend ryding a motorcycle on hyghway like freeway, or is it too dangerous? I have to learn to ride first but i dont think that would be a problem.

I suggest first reading Theravada and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It should be published in about 10 years.

Does anybody find mention of Gods of Hindu panthion in the Suttas i.e. other than Indra (shaka) and Bramha. I mean Krishna / Shiva / Vishnu etc or religious texts other than Vedas ? Regards Parth Krishna is mentioned in the Ghata Jataka. Sariputta was Krishna (Vasudeva; Pali: Kanha) in a past life.

StrivingforMonkhood wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 5:31 pm

DNS wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 2:52 pmDipa Ma is said to have had supernatural abilities. I'm not saying one way or another, as I never met her, but those around her say that they witnessed them.

Dipa Ma was enlightened for sure.

What makes you say “for sure”?

Of course, the intelligence official never saw these crafts. He heard about these crafts from someone else.

Psychotherapy is a specialized form of “admirable friendship”, kalyāṇamitta : I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was living among the Sakyans. Now there is a Sakyan town named Sakkara. There Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, sat...

When did the depression start? Was there an obvious or subtle life change that preceded the depression?

“Groundhog Day” (1993)

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BrokenBones wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:38 am I lasted nearly an hour and that was about 50 minutes too long... jumbled mess with more woke agendas than you can shake a stick at... it's definitely Oscar material

Watched about 10 minutes and knew that it was uber woke.

...or, in Pali, uber bubodha.

I’ve been told that there is something called Tantric Theravada.

JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 7:48 pm Not really Buddhism. She was part of SGI, the Japanese religion started by Nichiren Daishonen. Sort of like Mormonism is to Christianity.

Mormonism is a form of Christianity; it's not Trinitarian Christianity, but it's still Christianity. Likewise, SGI is a form of Buddhism.

Dan74 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:45 pm Everyone likes to claim celebrities. Here, the Swiss are claiming her as their own, because she lived and died in her home in Küssnacht (near Zürich) for many years.

The Swiss can also claim her because she became a citizen of Switzerland in 2013.