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- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Three watches of the night and Uposatha sutta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 117
Re: Three watches of the night and Uposatha sutta
No direct relationship. But the 3-Knowledge the Buddha attained during the watches of the night in MN 36 obviously helped with the insight/wisdom in His many teachings, where AN 3.70 is one among them. Thank you for answer. I had in mind the connection between the three watches of the night and Yām...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Three watches of the night and Uposatha sutta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 117
Three watches of the night and Uposatha sutta
Venerables and Friends, Is there any relationship between the three watches of the night where the Buddha attained the three true knowledges and the three types of Uposatha that are described in AN3.71, that is: 1- The Uposatha of the cowherd 2- The Uposatha of the Jains 3- The uposatha of the noble...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Is there the idea of a third eye in any lineage of Buddhism or Theravada Buddhism?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 218
Re: Is there the idea of a third eye in any lineage of Buddhism or Theravada Buddhism?
If you want to understand the worrying, then investigate the intention or motivation. After all, kamma is said to be intention. What is the intention of a spiritual practitioner? to escape the unpleasantness of worldly affairs - either by transcending the world altogether, or by developing enough eq...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 719
Re: Is the nature of the mind is ignorance?
Ignorance as a condition refers more to darkness than to nature. For example, you could say that the nature of the eye is that it cannot see in darkness, or that light is a necessary condition for the eye to see. This should not obscure conditionality, in the sense that both light and darkness contr...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:56 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Governance and Buddhist cosmology
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1556
Re: Governance and Buddhist cosmology
The United Nations seems to have similar patterns to Buddhist cosmology. The five permanent members are the product of major cosmological events (WWII), while the rotating ten members resembles devas who join the adults table for a while but with much less powers (so there is a grain of truth in mer...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The meaning of Bahira
- Replies: 69
- Views: 1667
Re: The meaning of Bahira
In MN142, we have another example where a Bahira is presented as a separate category of his/her own: Now, Ānanda, gifts to the following persons may be expected to yield the following returns. To an animal, a hundred times. To an unethical ordinary person, a thousand. To an ethical ordinary person, ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 23
- Views: 596
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
MN 56. MN56 seems to be presenting a hypothetical scenario rather than an actual case: “What do you think, householder? Suppose an ascetic or brahmin with psychic power, who has achieved mastery of the mind, were to come along and say: ‘I will reduce Nāḷandā to ashes with a single malevolent act of...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 23
- Views: 596
Re: Misuse of supernatural power
MN 56. MN56 seems to be presenting a hypothetical scenario rather than an actual case: “What do you think, householder? Suppose an ascetic or brahmin with psychic power, who has achieved mastery of the mind, were to come along and say: ‘I will reduce Nāḷandā to ashes with a single malevolent act of...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Misuse of supernatural power
- Replies: 23
- Views: 596
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
- Replies: 465
- Views: 76425
Re: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
The Theravada position appears to be a moral-absolute with no exceptions. Compare to the Mahayana position: There is a Mahayana story about the buddha killing in a past life, but not in the final existence as Gotama. The Buddha, in a past life as a ship's captain named Super Compassionate, discover...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
- Replies: 465
- Views: 76425
Re: Bhikkhu Bodhi on War and Thanissaro's rebuttal
I can't help but wonder what is the relationship between the articles written by the two venerables and Buddhism, except that the two are Buddhist monks? Ideally, the first precept is to be used to reduce or even eliminate speculating about moral and metaphysical issues. In fact, if this line of inq...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: The Dhamma and Science
- Replies: 10
- Views: 260
Re: The Dhamma and Science
I think the dhammic perspective on science would always be incomplete unless the dhammic perspective on history is clarified. Modernity is defined in terms of embracing the laws of nature as known through empiricism, and letting go of a more ancient way of understanding phenomena as per the religiou...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1625
Re: Guarding against the nonchalance of the worldly attitude
What you call worldlings still demonstrate the dhamma even when they do not practice it as a path. For them, anatta manifest as "plausible deniability" through a measure of "reason". For example, birth as a condition of old age and death does not criminalize parents for the act o...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
- Replies: 167
- Views: 5982
Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
Samsara has no discoverable beginning = samsara has an infinite past. Infinity cannot be defined or 'found', if you are confused by this thats your problem not the Buddhas fault. There is no confusion from me. If infinity cannot be defined or found, then how did you find it? The dhamma is well spok...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
- Replies: 167
- Views: 5982
Re: Venerating the Dhamma as the Impersonal Divine Cosmic Order symbolized by the Thousand Spoked Wheel symbol
This is what is stated. Of course if something truly has no beginning, one would only be able to say it had no discoverable beginning, since there would never be a possibility of 'reaching' to verify a non-existent first point. Only if there was a beginning would it be definitely confirmable. To co...