What is the first arrow if i may ask ? Is it the pleasant feeling , painful feeling and neutral feeling of physical body only or plus the other 4 sense fields ? If it include the sixth , the first arrow would thus include the second arrow according to the similes . Exactly. All you confused abhidha...

cittaanurakkho wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:09 am ...

Thanks!

cittaanurakkho wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 5:33 am ...
May it be useful

How do you use it? How do you get it from github into a working program that runs on a pc? Looking at your links, I don't see anything that looks like an installation program or working executable.

... Not that you have shown. A strength of the other interpretation is that it accounts for any painful mental dhammas the Buddha or Arahants would have/do experienced/experience. A purely physical reading lacks that explanatory power, thus being rather unsatisfactory. ... Sounds circular. We also ...

But the Buddha isn't trying to make a comprehensive explanation of all the types of extraneous (unnecessary) suffering that can follow the arrow of the initial suffering. He's just using the clearest example to show that mental suffering added to physical is completely extraneous. In a similar vein,...

Hi Frank, I don't think there is a particularly clear differentiation between "mind" and "body" in the suttas, so really the question is yours. I think that there is a tendency to over-interpret descriptions of experience in terms of "body" and "mind", and so I think Ceisiwr raises a good point. :h...

And where is the sutta basis for that? Kaya, especially when contrasted in a passage against mano, citta, cetasika, nama, etc., in the suttas always means kaya is the physical body that can experience physical pain. The simile should give you a pretty good idea too. You're getting shot by a physical...

Ok, I see the passage now (on the digital version linked below, do browser search for '214'). First of all, Vimt. doesn't say anything new from the sutta that it is based, in iddhipada SN 51 (iron ball simile, light as cotton, etc...), except to advise that one proceed gradually so as not to get hur...

AN 4.11 - AN 4.14 right effort, viriya, space invaders
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2 ... pace.html
What's more fun than video games and sex?

Here is online digitized version of chapter 9: If you want to point out the passage, that would help. searching for 'flying' or 'levitation' didn't catch anything. https://lucid24.org/sted/ebt/not/vimt/6ab/index.html The question in the book is about if one is practising flying using 4th Jhana. Shou...

aloko udapadi means visible light arose, literally. It's not talking about 'enlightened' in a metaphorical sense. In a decent third jhana, a meditator usually can see some light with their eyes closed in meditation. In fourth jhana, the light becomes brighter and more abundant. the stronger the ligh...

The question in the book is about if one is practising flying using 4th Jhana. Should he succeed in rising to considerable height and lose concentration, will he fell to his death? The answer I saw did not really answer the question. Or maybe I did not understand the translation. Doesn't really hel...

I've noticed a pattern. LBT (late buddhist texts) tends to double what's in the EBT to give an impression twice as much as twice as good! in EBT, we have 20 meditation subjects given in SN 46: 20 meditation subjects fed into 7sb☀️ engine Ānāpāna Vagga 7 SN 46.57 Aṭṭhika: 💀☠️ Skeleton-(perception/sañ...

how does one use Buddhism and meditation to develop fortitude in the face of racism and peer pressure?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuddhismUnlimi ... ation_to/

I don't agree with that. I believe arahant monks do emit semen, and arahant nuns who are young still menstruate monthly. The key is they (arahants) have perfected sati and sampajano, and have zero lust and no delusion. But they still have to eat, shit, and bodies still carry on their biological func...