All you have to do is observe this: there are endless iterations from Monday to Sunday, there have been Christmas celebrations for 2023 years, etc. However, no day or celebration is going to be the same. Within Buddhism, there is no room for reincarnation a.k.a. transmigration. In dependent nature, ...

In English, suffering is defined as the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. It is a word translated from Latin, namely sufferre which means to bear, undergo, endure, carry, or put under. The word suffering appears in every corner of Buddhism and usually, one would associate suffering wi...

Understanding Of Dependent Origination In Buddhism, Dependent Origination is referred to as a principle of interrelated causality. It explicates that all phenomenal existences are products of the proper combination of causes and conditions. Each of the causes would need other causes to be present t...

Samsāra literally means continuous flow - referring to a repeating cycle of birth, life, death, and re-birth. In samsāra, there is one thing that is consistently constant, i.e. becoming process due to the orientation of energy. The elements of energy would constantly fluctuate and orientate in trans...

In a Buddhist context, dependent nature is known as samsāra. Samsāra literally means continuous flow - referring to a repeating cycle of birth, life, death and re-birth. This is due to the fact of its relevance to inherent existence and anything that inherently exists would not involve change. The i...

Endless speculation about rebirth is what is reborn. The Buddha sees in no transmigration of all things or matters but instead, the constant and continuous transformation of all things or matters via the process of permeation (diffusion). Just like the orientation of energy in the cosmos i.e. energ...

What is a black hole got to do with the spiritual status of Arahant? Instead of reading out to dead stars, can you explain it in a pragmatic way? The very thought gives me the creeps a row of arahants is a cemetery of black hole?? Nah that does not work. Ajahn Sona calls black holes, hell holes how...

There is no self, it is the result of an ultimate point of view; There is a self, it is the result of a conventional point of view; There is non-self, it is the result of an ultimate-cum- conventional point of view; In the absence of creation, there would be no destruction; there is nothing lingers ...

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:16 am

takso wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:16 am There is self; just leave out the ownership of it..

if there is self how its possible to leave owner ship?

Well, one can still go to the cinema to watch movies without owning the copyrights of the movies or the cinema.

Arahant dwells in the void mostly, is that not an energetic process, or a very dynamic process? So much so, that we who are trapped within 5 aggregates are unable to comprehend that , Arahant has gone beyond the sense bases, empty of all sorrow related things true!, yet full of the energy of bliss,...

What do you mean by the center point of the source? What is the source? The focused/stilled mind of meditative individual. You wrote when becoming ceases, literally it means energy would stop vibrating? Pl. clarify. The becoming has ceased in the Buddha and all Arahants. But this does not mean the ...

Ultimate truth is the primal source of all things and actualities. It arises beyond mind and beyond concepts and words in the sense that it is beyond our usual ways of perceiving things. The depths of such realisation vary, depending on who does the disclosing; and the particular situation (and spea...

Those from Mahayana and some from within Theravada would argue that it is a mistake to say that Nibbana exists, that is to say to grant Nibbana some measure of ontological status. My question is general. Do you think nibbana is a real and existing dhamma, or is it a concept? Is it a mistake to clai...

There is self; just leave out the ownership of it..