All this banter about no self!!!! Didn't the buddha once say that he could not imagine a kind of self which would not bring dukkha? (Can someone find that sutta?) So, I guess, that you can go ahead and imagine some kind of self for yourself but the buddha says that it will be stressful..... Of cours...

So....it seems to me that it would be good if people said something to account for this peculiarity which is found everywhere in the suttas.....why is "atthi" use most always with worldly metaphores related to "nibbana" but it is never used with "nibbana" itself?.......this is not an assertion base...

As I answered it is both here on earth and a plane/realm. However as I also said, hell is only bad because of the people there, and people are composed of views and tendencies. Therefore the problem lies in views and tendencies I couldn't tell from your post whether you meant that somewhere being h...

... If you really think that in texts such as Ud 8.1 nibbāna's existence (whatever that means) is not affirmed then there really is no point in us discussing this further. I don't understand your logic and to me it's poor. Best we just leave it at that and move on, rather than beat the dead horse. ...

nāmakāya is a different word from Kāya. Nikāya is a different word from Kāya. Yes, the root there being “kāya”. What do you think nāmakāya means? Mental body. Seeing as we know there are different meanings of “body” in the suttas and the Buddha only says “body” in my quote we can either conclude th...

I would think this is just figure of speech Whatever one considers that “contacting the deathless element with the body” m[/b]eans you are still correct that "nibbana" does not appear in The All sutta. chownah But it does, under “dhammā”. I do hope this isn’t going to follow a similar trajectory as...

As with English “body” doesn’t just mean the physical body. For example in English we can also find “a body of water” or “the student body”. In the suttas we find that “Kāya” can also have a range of meanings. For example it can mean the physical body (or, perhaps, the aggregates as a whole but it ...

But you did, under “mental-phenomena”. What do you think “contacting the deathless element with the body” m eans? I would think this is just figure of speech Whatever one considers that “contacting the deathless element with the body” means you are still correct that "nibbana" does not appear in Th...

If Nibbana is "unconditioned", does this mean it exists independently of cognising minds? Could it be that you ask this question because you have not directly known the extent of designation and the extent of the objects of designation, the extent of expression and the extent of the objects of expr...

Hell is just a place, and places are not the problem. It's the people who occupy that place that is the problem. Does this mean that the room you showed in the picture is hell but the condition of the room is not a problem but rather it is the reaction that people have to the room that is the probl...

I guess the answer to that depends on whether hell and other realms are seen as real and distinct from "our world", so as to include constant and barely imaginable torment; or whether they are "psychologised" so as to be seen as metaphors for human feelings. coconut, Does sam vara's post contain yo...

Is anything one finds as unpleasant hell? Is the mildly unpleasant one level of hell? chownah I guess the answer to that depends on whether hell and other realms are seen as real and distinct from "our world", so as to include constant and barely imaginable torment; or whether they are "psychologis...

If Nibbana is "unconditioned", does this mean it exists independently of cognising minds? Could it be that you ask this question because you have not directly known the extent of designation and the extent of the objects of designation, the extent of expression and the extent of the objects of expr...

Is anything one finds as unpleasant hell? Is the mildly unpleasant one level of hell?
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