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...

Inedible wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:03 pm Time to see for myself. The Four Noble Truths felt like coming home for the first time in my life and I knew it then. I'm a Buddhist.

very nice words. Dhamma is a like true home, no more absolute alone

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...

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...

I remember well because some messages with him. He was intelligent and loves Dhamma
May he find nibbana

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

rhinoceroshorn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:45 pm

She 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.

Pleiades? What's the source?

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...

.... 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...

The seven books:

http://patthana.net/?page_id=36


texts, charts, etc:
http://abhidhamma.com/

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...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:53 am My reading is that a dry-insight worker can’t attain it at all. Still, my main reason for posting this was simply because it discusses the existence of such a path.

sorry, perhaps I did not understand. Yes, it says they cannot attain nirodha-samāpatti.