Is Ignorance intertwined with wisdom? Sri Lankan monk said that the wisdom is intertwined with ignorance. He referring to a Sutta. The question was “what is Vinnana” and What is “Panna” The answers was that Vinnana and Panna are not mutually exclusive sets. The way I read it when Panna increases th...

Latest from Ajahn Sucitto, dealing, as ever, with the practicalities of Dhamma in everyday life: To establish mindfulness and full knowing in daily life relies on filtering the input of stuff coming at us from all directions, because the sheer deluge can overwhelm us. Because we build up psychologic...

Greetings in Dhamma! I am currently engaging with a member of the Waharaka movement in Sri Lanka, which have some quite unorthodox philological takes of certain Pāḷi words with which I do not agree. Among their peculiar interpretations is that aniccaṃ ultimately refers to “non-liking” or “not accor...

Greetings, I don't think so. They share the prefixes, but so do lots of other words. It's like in English when we have "confirm" and "contemplate". True, but in both senses the "con" and the "sam" signify "with". Metta, Paul. :) Yes, that's why I ch...

I think "undertake" is a good translation, and most translators seem to use it. Ādiyati means to take up or appropriate, the ā prefix meaning "to oneself". The extra bit Sam usually means "with" or that something has been completed. So the general sense is that I take ...

The Five Precepts: 1. Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures. 2. Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given. 3. Kamesu micchacara veramani sikkhapadam samad...

Hey guys, My SAT test is right around the corner and I am feeling pretty stressed out about it. Do you guys have any dhamma related ways of dealing with this? Heard of the Japanese concept of Ikigai? The Five Pillars of Ikigai Beyond your career, ikigai can become a framework for approaching life i...

... the teacher was relating compassion to the base of the infinity of space... ... when suffering, we benefit from someone or something "giving us space", some kind of distance from oppression and affliction... But where compassion falls in here? I'm asking because I don't understand the...

The line "but decide not to prevent them" is self contradictory because no harm is done by self. Sorry, I can't understand this. Do you mean that the idea of deciding not to prevent killing is self-contradictory? It’s not. Or do you mean that the idea of deciding not to prevent killing co...

As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=...

.. AN 4.232: https://suttacentral.net/an4.232/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin and MN 57: https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false...

As far as I think the appropriate sutta could be Brahma vihara sutta, AN 10.208 Thanks, Justin, but AN 10.208 isn't about the Brahmaviharas. It's this: https://suttacentral.net/an10.199-210/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=...

I really like Rhys Davids' explanatory footnote to the correct answer to the question asked by Sāriputta: the idea that "All beings are sustained by food". (Especially as it refers to a Dhp verse that I am currently stuying via Zoom with some friends.) Well, yes, as RD makes clear, there ...

But without knowing the intended meaning, how can people comment? What exact does it refer to? What sutta is it supposedly from? These questions will need to be answered first. Feel free to comment, but I was only asking for the sutta, if people could recall it. :anjali: As far as I think the appro...

From where did this terminology even start? What does this mean? AN 4.232: https://suttacentral.net/an4.232/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=linebyline&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin and MN 57: https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=lineby...