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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: insight and impermanence
- Replies: 2
- Views: 120
Re: insight and impermanence
Anupassana means contemplation while Vipassana means seeing clearly. Anicca means implementar, unable to withstand
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 189
Re: "If we owned our body, it would obey our every command"
When you own something you control it. You do whatever you want with it because it's yours. If you can't be in full control, you might notice that then it isn't so true that it's fully yours. To be yours seems to be more like a matter of speak, it works if we put aside the fact that you can't fully ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: And why is it called “perception”?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 444
Re: And why is it called “perception”?
If you ask -) Dissati, bhikkhave, imassa cātumahābhūtikassa kāyassa ācayopi apacayopi ādānampi nikkhepanampi. Tasmā tatrāssutavā puthujjano nibbindeyyapi virajjeyyapi vimucceyyapi. (Therefore the uninstructed worldling might experience revulsion towards this body composed of the four great elements...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:14 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: And why is it called “perception”?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 444
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Anicca, Dukkha,Anatta with a new angle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 312
Re: Anicca, Dukkha,Anatta with a new angle
Anicca = possibility of change. This is a problem and can't be yourself.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:54 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: And why is it called “perception”?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 444
Re: And why is it called “perception”?
A rather weird line from the suttas And why do you call it 'perception'? Because it perceives, thus it is called 'perception.' What does it perceive? It perceives blue, it perceives yellow, it perceives red, it perceives white. Because it perceives, it is called perception. How do we interpret this...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: anicca
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4148
Re: anicca
.... What do you think of anicca meaning unstable, apt to change? What do you think of an eventual perception that everything can change? Would you say perceiving this, by own experience, would be perceiving anicca? Would you agree it's not as much about time, about a wait, but only about being awa...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the objective of recollection of Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 674
Re: What is the objective of recollection of Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha?
Some things to note here: the contemplations here depend on being an ariyasāvaka as such, the three contemplations are recollections of verified confidence in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha these are pleasant mental abidings there is a fourth recollection on one's unbroken sīla I think the puthujjuna can h...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1226
Re: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
... So what is your opinion on this? It's like you asked "Who owns the air?" And we replied no one owns it, no one can control it, no one has such an ego to claim it its own. And you replied "but someone must own it because it's there, I don't mean in a time when it has evaporated&qu...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1226
Re: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
... We are talking about the living Buddha in this OP question. I have no problem with the Buddha who attained Parinibbana. So you are asking about the aggregates between enlightnment and "parinibbana", right? What's your view? Are they the same as before enlightenment, or are they the sa...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Gambling and precept
- Replies: 16
- Views: 693
Re: Gambling and precept
Is gambling breaking any precept guys? Is it forbidden in Buddhist teaching? Maybe only when we break the precept when we gamble or is it when it becomes an addiction? Some people say when you trade stocks in stock market without knowledge in trading, it is basically gambling. What's your thought? ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Opinions on redefining concepts from the Suttas
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Opinions on redefining concepts from the Suttas
However, I like to translate "vitakka" as "purposes" which in my view is closer to the meaning of "vitakka" which seems to be an intentional kind of thought, one that's rooted in the heart. Good observation. Has interpreting vitakka that way helped you in practice? It'...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Gold and Silver are subject to birth, but not death
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2105
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Opinions on redefining concepts from the Suttas
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Opinions on redefining concepts from the Suttas
... one arises wholesome thoughts... You are giving me another example for your redfining concepts topic. Here "thoughts" is the translator interpretation for the Pali word "vitakka". As you can see this interpretation goes along tradition, where the path is a path of mental pur...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1226
Re: What are the five aggregates of Buddha?
You tell if "These hands are mine, I am these hands" is the same as "Those hands are the Master Gotama's, he is those hands".