_anicca_ wrote:

Herbie wrote: ...tibetan fools...

Why do you say this?

Because I am not "mistakenly equating emptiness with the idea that nothing at all exists".

I had this thought today. The whole world is changing at the same time, may be in a different rate. So when a person is dying, at the same time preparation for his rebirth also taking place. So my future parents could be my next door boy or girl. Perhaps the bird who is making the nest in the tree ...

Greetings Herbie, While the Buddha did teach that the nature of mind—in fact the nature of all phenomena—is emptiness, Sorry but where did he teach that? The Phena Sutta comes to mind as a good example of this. Metta, Paul. :) Well I think that isn't a good example because the constructions of thos...

Lucas Oliveira wrote:While the Buddha did teach that the nature of mind—in fact the nature of all phenomena—is emptiness,

Sorry but where did he teach that?

Buddhistdoor View—Why Buddhism is Not All About the Search for Happiness By Buddhistdoor Buddhistdoor Global 2016-07-08 ... It would be easy for an outsider to conclude from this material that cultivating and promoting happiness is one of the highest priorities of Buddhism. Popular media outlets li...

The Thinker wrote:Yes this is the area I wish to discuss

This may manifest the "trap of words". Why does one want or wish or seek to discuss anything? Because the phenomena arising depending on seeing and/or hearing words appear to be true although they are not.

... Of course this is incorrect thinking in that when we are busy fabricating what we see is not the object at all but some mental object we create and even when we think we observe the object directly there really is no way of knowing how well we see it because we have no way of knowing how much t...

Just to throw this out there for your consideration, Folks, what if in meditation, when hearing, instead of labeling "hearing, hearing", we negate "not hearing, not hearing"? When sensing, when thinking, when..., we negate it? Would that not lead to the dropping of the aggregate...

Just to throw this out there for your consideration, Folks, what if in meditation, when hearing, instead of labeling "hearing, hearing", we negate "not hearing, not hearing"? When sensing, when thinking, when..., we negate it? Would that not lead to the dropping of the aggregate...

(8) “Bhikkhus, of the speculative views held by outsiders, this is the foremost, namely: ‘I might not be and it might not be mine; I shall not be, and it will not be mine.’ For it can be expected that one who holds such a view will not be unrepelled by existence and will not be repelled by the cess...

suriyopama wrote:... I would rather rely on what I directly find myself from the practice than on the conceptual ideas coming from another person.

yes that's best.

Disciple wrote:No rebirth = zero point in practicing Dhamma

I'd say it can make the course of life more smooth and less turbulent which is what some may appreciate.

Experience is feeling, perceiving and other fomations and the basis is conciousness. Phenomena are objects of conciousness which is the basis for experience. So to say "the same thing" is not correct. "Feeling, perception, & consciousness are conjoined, friend, not disjoined. It ...

suriyopama wrote:

SarathW wrote:Stephen Hawking say that there is no after life neither the God!

Is the authority of Hawking more reliable than the combination of jhana and discernment?

There isn't any authority that would not be merely conceptually imputed. So what to rely on?

Is phenomena what experience is made of? Experience is feeling, perceiving and other fomations and the basis is conciousness. Is phenomena the same thing as experience? Phenomena are objects of conciousness which is the basis for experience. So to say "the same thing" is not correct. I gu...