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by Kilaya Ciriello
Thu Jul 20, 2023 2:02 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
Topic: When Food Becomes Poison
Replies: 1
Views: 666

When Food Becomes Poison

I feel I have benefited greatly from choosing organically grown fruits and vegetables (in the US) and I see AN 4.70 as a support for this within the Suttas. I am interested in others' take on this sutta in regards to whether it suggests that the social degradation (of values) automatically leads to ...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Scared on Leaving Vajrayana and Staying In It
Replies: 66
Views: 6658

Re: Scared on Leaving Vajrayana and Staying In It

I empathize with the uncomfortable nature of your situation. Having learned Tibetan means you have invested a lot of time and energy and probably acquired caring friends and an identity to go with it. In considering what the Buddha taught within the sutta nikayas a few passages come to mind that mig...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:36 pm
Forum: Sīla
Topic: Kammic consequences of taking the precepts
Replies: 45
Views: 4574

Re: Kammic consequences of taking the precepts

What you can see in religions is that there is the official doctrine, but there's also an inofficial metadoctrine, such as "Yes, God will punish sinners with eternal damnation, but I can rest assured that I am not amongst them" or "Kamma is indeed difficult to understand, but I am su...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Sun May 21, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Vishakaya, Migara's Mother
Replies: 2
Views: 305

Re: Vishakaya, Migara's Mother

Much Appreciated! Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!
by Kilaya Ciriello
Sat May 20, 2023 1:08 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Vishakaya, Migara's Mother
Replies: 2
Views: 305

Vishakaya, Migara's Mother

Is Vishaka, the questioner in MN 44, who questions Dhammadinna, the same as Vishaka, Migara's Mother, who the Buddha addresses in Ud 8.8, among other suttas?

It would make sense, in that a woman lay follower would approach and question a Bhikkhuni in this way.
by Kilaya Ciriello
Wed May 17, 2023 4:53 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Help Locating a Sutta
Replies: 3
Views: 326

Re: Help Locating a Sutta

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
:twothumbsup:
by Kilaya Ciriello
Wed May 17, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
Topic: Help Locating a Sutta
Replies: 3
Views: 326

Help Locating a Sutta

I am searching for the sutta in which Ven. Ananda gives the explanation for why the Buddha's dispensation includes desire for liberation even though liberation involves the ending of all desire. He gives the analogy of desiring to go to a park. When you arrive at the part the desire to go to the par...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Mon May 08, 2023 9:21 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Buddhism and platonism
Replies: 51
Views: 2502

Re: Buddhism and platonism

I am currently writing a book comparing Platonism and the major forms of Indian spiritual philosophy. I don't go into the fine print like this discussion involves, more staying to the vast structural similarities between the systems. But I have thought a lot about the topic discussed here, specifica...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Wed May 03, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?
Replies: 44
Views: 2540

Re: Why does Vasavatti not stop Mara?

MA.i.28 was cited. Is this a commentary? I have read commentary attributions of Mara as a Deva but this never made sense to me. Mara is described repeatedly as performing evil actions within the Suttas. How can a Deva perform evil action, especially in such a high level heaven such as Those Controll...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Fri Apr 14, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods
Replies: 9
Views: 582

Re: Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods

Yes, but this offerings to devas are done in order to gain merits or to gain other worldly benefits, compassion and protection. Thank you for this attentive and detailed response. You write that "this offerings to devas are done in order to gain merits or to gain other worldly benefits." ...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods
Replies: 9
Views: 582

Re: Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods

I wonder whether suttas like the following show the wrong grasp of the dhamma in one who makes such pronouncements about the fruitlessness of ritual worship and chanting: "In whatever place a wise man sets up his home, here we should feed the virtuous, the controlled who lead the holy life. To ...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Wed Apr 12, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods
Replies: 9
Views: 582

Traditional Indian Ritual Worship of the Gods

I recently heard a very popular Canadian monk, ordained in the Thai tradition, speak about the Buddha's teachings on traditional Indian worship of the Gods as was common in his day and exists in India to this day. This monk said that in regards to body kamma or acts of the body which produce good ka...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:46 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Sevana -- Associating or Service from Sn2.4
Replies: 2
Views: 920

Sevana -- Associating or Service from Sn2.4

The Mangala Sutta (Sn2.4) contains the Pali "sevana" and seems consistently translated as "associating with" the wise. This is one of the Buddha's recommendations for what is auspicious "mangalam." There are other suttas however that seem to suggest that a legitimate tr...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:14 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The Dhamma Wheel Memorization Challenge
Replies: 67
Views: 31937

Re: The Dhamma Wheel Memorization Challenge

I aspire to memorize the Dhatuvibhanga Sutta MN140 in English. I really appreciate the advice given so far in this thread. I'm going to try a few of the mentioned techniques like daily reciting, copying out by hand, working paragraph by paragraph successively and cumulatively, using the mnemonic tec...
by Kilaya Ciriello
Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:16 pm
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: New book: The Only Way to Jhāna by Ajahn Nyanamoli
Replies: 273
Views: 24958

Re: New book: The Only Way to Jhāna by Ajahn Nyanamoli

From chapter 9: Such a samādhi practice will result in the pleasure that the Buddha praises, the pleasure that is different from the pleasure of sensuality, that of not being bothered, the pleasure of being withdrawn from danger, the pleasure of internal safety of a mind that has turned away from t...