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- Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:41 pm
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Unintentional bad thoughts about Buddha
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6661
Re: Unintentional bad thoughts about Buddha
Dear everyone, I am not an native english speaker, so I may have some problems of explaining. Please help me. I respect buddha very much and i have loved Buddhism since i was around ten years old. I often visit pagoda with all of my respect. However, I do not know why it always appears unintentiona...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: No reason to practice Buddhism without rebirth
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27856
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:40 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Alexander Wynne: Sariputta or Kaccāna? A preliminary study of two early Buddhist philosophies of mind and meditation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21978
Re: Alexander Wynne: Sariputta or Kaccāna? A preliminary study of two early Buddhist philosophies of mind and meditation
Basically this is what Buddha said to Bahia, which is repeated in many suttas, 'Bare Cognition' or 'Vinnana Matta' as taught to Bahia and Malunkyaputta, not "bare awareness" as discussed in the Burmese Vipassana tradition, not a teaching of the Buddha. The truth is as simple as MN 18 and Bahia sutt...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: No reason to practice Buddhism without rebirth
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27856
Re: No reason to practice Buddhism without rebirth
The first noble truth says that there is dukkha, but what the truths also imply is that we really need to get rid of dukkha. Without rebirth, death does that job for us at some point. So it seems to me, that without rebirth, there is no compelling reason to practice Buddhism. death existed before y...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:42 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: death of forum member dylanj
- Replies: 45
- Views: 39636
Re: death of forum member dylanj
I remember well because some messages with him. He was intelligent and loves Dhamma
May he find nibbana
May he find nibbana

- Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:10 am
- Forum: Hot Topics
- Topic: Monastics protesting social injustice
- Replies: 703
- Views: 153775
Re: Monastics protesting social injustice
Yes, the issue is whether monks should involve themselves in these matters, not the merits of particular causes. From all that I've seen, monks who involve themselves in social justice, believe their causes to be just and noble, believe the facts to be on their side and the merit of this belief is ...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:48 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: What if we have violated a precept?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1569
Re: What if we have violated a precept?
Angulimala killed 999 people, yet still became an Arahant. in the Angulimala case we see how important is setting a break point in the heart so the action will not be repeated in any future. Like a line going down which at some point can start to go up. Nobody knows kamma fruits, although by keepin...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 10:05 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15411
Re: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
But the Buddha described the cosmos. If you don't believe his descriptions, I must say it's some lack of faith, isn't it? :console: in these depictions there are mixed some physical realities we can share (sun, moon, humans...) with others under a supranormal view. It can be complicated to concilli...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 4:51 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15411
Re: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
I also don't know how the person who wrote it concluded it was Pleiades, but ok... :rofl: perhaps some Pleiadean administrator?. Wikipedia is always hungry for new donations :lol: btw, this is related and maybe interesting to yours: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/did-the-buddha-know-the-earth...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:52 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15411
Re: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
Pleiades? What's the source?rhinoceroshorn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:45 pmShe went back to Uttarakuru, a place in the cosmos which may be identifiable with Pleiades since its inhabitants are like humans that live for 800 to 1000 years and have a physical body unlike a spiritual body of deva gods.
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:44 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15411
Re: Uttarakuru = gas planet resembling Saturn/Jupiter
Thinking that Sumeru exists out there somewhere is like expecting Olympus to be a real place, and expecting the dhyāna heavens to be stacked neatly one atop the other is like expecting the earth to float on water suspended in air standing in space. Of course, ancient people believed Zeus lived on O...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:52 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early suttas that says sotapanna attained nibbana
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13268
Re: Early suttas that says sotapanna attained nibbana
.... The key word is , Not yet able to make bodily contact which means have not attained nibbana . it was the case of one disciple following a cultivation of jhanas which will end in touching with the body. However, it depends of the path. There is also the path of discernment in where the arhant d...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: Abhidhamma
- Topic: Abhidhamma Piṭaka in english
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14499
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: The path of the dry-insight worker --- sukkhavipassaka
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17725
Re: The path of the dry-insight worker --- sukkhavipassaka
Fwiw Mahasi Sayadaw wrote this in his Discourse on the Sallekha Sutta; Insight meditation and absorption have some characteristics in common. When the practice of mindfulness is well established at the exploratory stage, i.e. knowledge by comprehension (sammasanañāna), there are initial application...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:13 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: The path of the dry-insight worker --- sukkhavipassaka
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17725