cappuccino wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:06 am

thepea wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:04 am I see the soul as accumulation of past trauma.
Is this in line with buddhas teachings?

Buddha doesn't teach about the soul


but neither does he teach against the soul

He doesn’t use that word?
What is Pali translation of this word?

Do you agree with the soul reference in a plane crash? Soul Wikipedia (Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Scientology, Shamanism, Sikhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism) who is right? I trust the soul is real I see the soul as accumulation of past trauma. Is this in line with buddhas teachin...

Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction? Whatever the answer might be, would it make a big difference? Assume that the answer is "man is a fiction", then what? I think to see that these questions lead nowhere is closer to what the Buddha taught than the answer itself. I guarantee you, this lead...

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:20 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:48 pm Does the Buddha describe his disciples as living man and women?

The heedful do not die.
The heedless are as if already dead.


Appamadavagga

Do you agree with the soul reference in a plane crash?

dharmacorps wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:33 pm What difference does it make? You're dead.

Are you?

Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:30 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:57 pm Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction?

What does man as fact mean to you?

What does man as fiction mean to you?

First things first...

Did you submit the response to this question Nicholas?
I would say yes, that would be a fact.
Or do you argue this a fiction?

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:07 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:05 pm

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:55 pm

buddha is a man

buddha is not fiction

Ok,
Are you a man or a fiction?

I am a man because I got banana below my torso

And is your banana a fact or a fiction?

I don't understand it either. Are you asking whether the Buddha actually existed and taught, as opposed to being a fiction? Or are you asking whether he said in his teachings that man(kind) was fictional? Are you a fact or a fiction? If you're trying to bless us with a discourse, you shouldn't star...

Sam Vara wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:49 pm I don't understand it either.

Are you asking whether the Buddha actually existed and taught, as opposed to being a fiction?

Or are you asking whether he said in his teachings that man(kind) was fictional?

Are you a fact or a fiction?

confusedlayman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:55 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:57 pm Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction?

buddha is a man

buddha is not fiction

Ok,
Are you a man or a fiction?

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:44 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:57 pm Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction?

I don’t understand the question?

Ok, are you a fact or a fiction?

SDC wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:17 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:57 pm Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction?

Based on your latest round of posts, it seems you have doubts about something.

Not at all.
It should be a simple question to answer.
When we establish an answer I can move to the next portion of judgement discussion.

Did Buddha teach man as a fact or a fiction?

dead cargo. The Buddha teaching: Body, feelings, perceptions, mentalformations, consciusnesses, these are NOT self. But the Buddha never say that human are dead cargo, The Buddha say body and mind are in "process". Repeatedly the Buddha say the word "atta" not as a thing but as a personal pronoun. ...

SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:06 pm

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:04 pm

SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:04 am

This is excluded by general terms and conditions

Could you expand on this please?

The exclusion and the terms and conditions?

You can only get a ticket for yourself as a person.

Could you provide a present definition of your use of the word person?