Assaji? Ven. Dhammanando? RobertK?

Now's the chance to prove how useful Abhidhamma and Vism. are.

newly proofread PTS Pali English Dictionary as single html,

and an article where two bhikkhus explain the incident in Ajahn Mun bio where he has conversation with past Buddhas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhistT ... oof_read/

newly proofread PTS Pali English Dictionary as single html,

and an article where two bhikkhus explain the incident in Ajahn Mun bio where he has conversation with past Buddhas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhistT ... oof_read/

https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2 ... tep-4.html
anyone have any idea what the last section of quoted passage means?
Is it referring to cessation of perception and feeling?

quoting scholar...: In the Janapada Sutta of the Satipaṭṭhāna Saṃyutta in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, the Buddha made the following simile: Suppose a great crowd were to assemble to see the most beautiful girl of the country singing and dancing. A man would be ordered to carry around a bowl of oil full to...

Vimt. chinese -> English passage correction: sound is a thorn in first jhana, relation to arupa and alara kalama 500 carts
https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhistT ... _sound_is/

In http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/bodymind.html I see Aj Thanissaro translating Kayagata-sati as "Mindfulness Immersed in the Body" Seems like a stretch to me to translate "gata" as "immersed". What do you think? What alternatives do you propose Bhante? I'm using AT's 'immersed' for now, ...

Hi Assaji, can you expand on what you mean contradicting the cmy? KN Ps bit you quoted looks like it's defining KGS (kaya gata..) as the exercises listed in MN 119. Does "Mindfulness Immersed in the Body" contradict that? And which meaning of pavatta is being applied in the KN Ps cmy? Could you stat...

... There is a very senior Theravadan monk in my country who has a legendary reputation for rudeness and what looks like bad temper, but he still attracts a devoted following! I'm not trying to defend anger and rudeness by the way, I'm just trying to make a clear distinction between people's cognit...

... The same applies here on DW, in a very minor way. People who claim or imply that they are holier-than-thou (or in Buddhist terms, "more-accomplished-than-thou" or "more-knowledgeable-than-thou") on DW are advised to avoid personalised disputes, name-calling, and displays of anger when dealing w...

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarlyBuddhismMeditati/comments/kyo8qm/culadasa_accomplished_jhanaheavy_vism_jhana/ excerpt: Culadasa, accomplished "jhana-heavy" Vism. Jhana meditator, and his response to sexual misconduct charges Does Visuddhimagga's supposedly better "jhana heavy" style of meditation act...

short critique of his definition of mindfulness here, with pictures. https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2020/10/b-analayo-and-his-new-book-wrong.html He may have improved his definition over his previous versions, trying to redress some of the criticisms from the past, but it's still fatally flaw...

The tragic non-irony of the situation is that Vism. Jhana believers are confirmation bias inclined, cherry picking passages, ignoring all the other sutta passages that contradict their cherry picked one so they can deceive themselves and imagine their view is correct. The Abhidhamma passages quoted ...

The definition of 'jhana-lite' and 'jhana-heavy'
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2 ... hana.html

Hopefully we can use more accurate labels to differentiate the two interpretations of jhana.

Ok, re-reading your original response I think I know the problem. You didn't read the article I linked, you're just asking about the article title summary, which of course doesn't make any sense without explanation. Right underneath that title summary you're asking me about (in the first message of ...