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Greetings,

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:41 am I don’t see a link to the sutta there?

Vinaya...

"However, Bhikkhu Bodhi notes at least one case mentioned in the Pali Canon of a lay person attaining enlightenment, that of Yasa who ordained shortly thereafter. (Vin I 17,1–3)"

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings, The Suttas, the Abhidhamma and the Aṭṭhakathā are all in perfect harmony. You're welcome to keep telling yourself that and plastering over the cracks (hopefully you won't do that as long for Theravada scholasticism as you did for Marxism) but we're probably getting a long way from topic, ...

Greetings, To quote Ven. Moggaliputtatissa in the Abhidhamma: By "Abhidhamma", I assume you mean the commentaries, as developed centuries after the Buddha. Such is the problem of placing one school's views over those of the Buddha... the inevitable result is attachment to the partisan. Metta, Paul. :)

Greetings Craig, Greetings, Don’t they arise when there is no sangha? They do... so if someone can do it when the teachings aren't known, it seems backwards to suggest they can't do it when they are. You are comparing a Buddha to an Arahant. Different skill sets. Now you're clutching at straws. Mett...

Greetings,

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:12 pm Don’t they arise when there is no sangha?

They do... so if someone can do it when the teachings aren't known, it seems backwards to suggest they can't do it when they are.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings,

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:06 pm Laymen can’t become Arahants.

If they can become paccekabuddhas, I don't see why not.

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings,

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:19 pm Do you have any journal or link we can look at? Also, “human” isn’t necessarily biological in the Dhamma. For example, the Buddha was no longer “human”.

By that logic though, would an arahant be denied entry into the Buddhist Order?

Metta,
Paul.

Greetings Mike, Why don't you ask him then? Because I neither want to encourage such political endorsement and activism from monks, nor do I want to put him in a position where he feels any compulsion to rationalize his earlier endorsement. However, someone who may know him, who might share similar ...

Greetings, OK, posts insufficiently connected to the topic of "Monastics protesting social injustice" have been removed. My preference would be to keep this topic here in "Ordination and Monastic Life", but for the meantime, it's going to have to be relocated to "Hot Topics" because we're currently ...

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Greetings Mr.Man, So he didn’t express support for the “BLM organisation”? He did by putting his name to a document that used the # Not for the “organisation”. The organisation is something different but I’m sure you must know that and are just being disingenuous. As was pointed out to you, when you...

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Greetings Dan, Throughout this topic, radical Marxist views rooted in identity, aversion and greed have been thoroughly refuted by sutta. If you can find anything venerable Dhammanando says here or elsewhere that can be refuted by suttas, then bring it forward. Otherwise, you are merely sullying his...

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Greetings thepea, Well that’s part of the frustration, as these matters are interconnected. Believe me, I understand they're connected. See this post for an example of the interconnection. And I did like your comment about "the awakened saints among the sleepy masses are Inclined to rise up for the ...