... It seems to me that the Buddha's description (Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation): "just as a mother with her own life would protect her her dear and only child, so should one develop a mind towards all living beings" implies much more than having no ill-will. Or do you find the translation ...

I do not know much Pali, so I understand metta based on its context. In my own understanding, metta is unconditional love. This is spiritual love, not mundane love. I explained this here: metta Do you mean metta is like love? Do you think it's about doing everything in one's power to save someone f...

... That wish or feeling that a being be well and happy, that they not suffer and that they experience good fortune, without any corresponding desire for ourselves... I don't think this to be the meaning of metta. Yearning that our loved ones reach their destination safely in their trip without any...

Perhaps metta is the absence of any disposition to do harm and inflict pain. We can call this benevolence but I wouldn't say it means a disposition to actively do good. I think it isn't about fighting battles to bring justice to the world. I think it's more about not doing harm including not doing h...

….. a believe isn’t a fact / truth. ….. perhaps not defining things to what we want them to be? Of course my belief and my view. I'm not claiming to have correct understanding as you do. I'm pointing out what doesn't seem to accord with the teachings in what you're saying. Your view, which is share...

... One must experience Nibbana (fully) to became an arahant….to realize the 4NT….. that insight / direct experience isn’t permanent….via seeing impermanence. Difference is the body! …..conditioned by it ….. hence the difference between conditioned and unconditioned . Nibbana is the same here but m...

There are 2 types is the correct understanding: ... 1st one is when one achieves arahant ….. this experience isn’t permanent hence the term with fuel remaining….. due to the condition. ….. also it’s why it’s mentioned as a foretaste for Parinibbana. This dimension hereafter is accessible (always is...

A recent discussion held the view that nirvana is eternal. Jstor.org nirvana, time discusses that nirvana and time are similar and is not repetetive . Nirvana is also is discussed as ending of samsara a subject to be discussed at length. If Nirvana and time is to be compared as similar in expressio...

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Lately I've been racking my brain trying to fathom the relations between modern neuroscience and Buddhism. ... But why? What for? The Buddha taught the complete set of truths and instructions for liberation. Do you think neuroscience has a better answer? Do you think brain interventions could be an...

I like the explanation in bhante Kumāra Bhikkhu's book What you might not know about Jhāna and Samādhi . You can learn here what people mean when they say samatha and vipassana, depending if they ascribe to the Visuddhimagga or not.

:goodpost: The Buddho, "Behold, O Bhikkhus, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation." Don't be anything at all (including don't be an Arahant) is a very valid and beneficial teaching from t...

If the question is is it possible to determine difference between normal sensory experience and "well organized hallucination" the answer is "no" apart by guessing, normal man can guess that deva who appeared to him is likely to be hallucination, but meditator who sees deva can ...

Adam1234 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:51 pm Wouldn't that be consciousness of legitimacy?...

Yes, it seems this is realizing the Dhamma.

Adam1234 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:51 pm ... But that's a delight...

I think it's a realization.

cappuccino wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:36 pm There is an absence of stress

Yes, correctness.