Why not three? Sri Lankans always say it three times. :D Thats wrong. If sentences u can saying 3 times. Sādhu is a "word". The Buddhå just Using 2 times, not three. All country, all world say 2 times too For a "word". For sentences u can say 3 times like: Namo tassa Bhagavatå A...

Samma is right Sam is perfect or self ? This translated as rightly perfect enlightened ? Or rightly self englightened ? Which is the correct one ? Sammā: truly/really (benar-benar) * He is really really (truly) amazing Sambuddhå: The Enlightened One (Yang Tercerahkan) So, "Sammāsambuddhå"...

In reaction to mindfulness of my life, I had recently decided to attempt to follow an extreme form of morality. It failed, of course. I have not been able to give up my addictions to contentious speech, alcohol, pornography, laziness, or lack of meditation, and have even been neglecting my daily ri...

SarathW wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:17 pm

So ... Upasamanussati = aniccå, dukkhå, anattā
(This meditation is hidden)

Could you find an English translation?

"... When you perceive impermanence, the perception of not-self becomes stabilized ...." (AN 9.1)

What is this? Hehehe. I suer many buddhist Forgot bout this meditation. It is "recollection of the peace of nibbānå". (Read Visuddhimaggå: after ānāpānasati) I think Upasamanussati Very suitable for old people who have difficulty with other objects. The question is whether it is a part of...

The way I understand, according to Abhidhamma there are 28kinds of Rupa. https://puredhamma.net/tables-and-summaries/rupa-material-form/ We all are familiar with the four Rupa namely earth, water, fire, and air in Buddhism We are also familiar with the internal and objective Rupa (as per Abhidhamma...

asahi wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 9:28 am Do you think a stream enterer can have more than 7 lifetimes rebirth ?

Do you think Paccekabuddhå Candidate
can become a Paccekabuddhå,
more than 2 asangkheyyā
(plus 100,000 kappā)?



Just read:
SN II. 13. Abhisamayasaṃyuttå
(Bout Sotāpannå just have 7 lifetimes)

asahi wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:49 am Is it true ? Especially tree taller than an average man height . What are the reason .

Damaging plant reproduction,
is a violation of pacittiyå
(just admit the mistake).

Plants are not living things,
but LIVING (reproduce).
An ascetic (bhikkhu) is forbidden
To harm or damage those two things.

Technical question: What, specifically, constitutes a break of the precept (3rd of 8 precepts), "Abrahmacariya sikkhapadam samadiyami"? How do you know when this precept has been broken? Obviously, any kind of sexual intercourse breaks the precept, and I assume that masturbation and any o...

SarathW wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:52 am

"Upasamanussati".

What is this?

Hehehe. I suer many buddhist
Forgot bout this meditation.

It is "recollection of the peace of nibbānå".
(Read Visuddhimaggå: after ānāpānasati)

I think Upasamanussati
Very suitable for old people
who have difficulty with other objects.

Why do Anicca, Dukkha, and Anatta not in 40 meditation objects? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamma%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81na Recently I contemplate Dukkha as my meditation with great results. So I was curious to investigate wherther it is in 40 meditation objects and discovered that it is not the...

Hello everyone, Just a random question that popped into my head. Will people who attained nibbana will be reborn after universe ends and restarts? I'm surer they will never be reborn while the current universe exist (which is a very very long time), but what happens when universe ends and restarts ...

In the suttas, I've only seen nama defined this way, such as in SN 12.2: https://lucid24.org/sn/sn12/sn12-002/index.html#flink-12 ♦ “katamañca, bhikkhave, nāma-rūpaṃ? "And-what, monks, (is) name-and-form? vedanā, saññā, feelings, perceptions, cetanā, phasso, intentions, contacts, manasi-kāro —...

simsapa wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:11 pm Do parasites have "breath"? If so, how can we deal with them without harming them if they're harming us?

Do criminal is human? Or evil?
Why do we imprison criminals?
Why not just forgive?

1. Devå = heavenly creature (male) can mean brahmā too (brahmā devå). * devī (female) 2. Devatā = Heavenly being (male/female) CANT mean brahmā. We need to using translation. 3. Devaputtå = celestial being (male). Can mean devå/brahmā. Using translation too. * celestial (dibbå) Ghaṭikarå (anāgāmī) i...