SN 7.6 was an exchange with a non-Buddhist. The language of the conversion is the language of Brahminism. Hi DD! I don't understand how is it relevant that the listener was a non-buddhist. In SN 42.7, the Buddha says that he teaches the Dhamma to all listeners. If the Dhamma is the truth, it is ind...

Hi! By chance I was just reading an essay on the role of mamarupa and viññana in Dependent Co-arising. There, the author seem to suggest that with the gradual destruction of ignorance and cognitive distortions, there comes the destruction of sense and designation (quoting SN 7.6). The final result o...

In terms of the effects of the attainment of arahantship over the arising of feelings (vedana): Do Arahants experience the arising of non-neutral (pleasure or displeasure) mental feelings? According to Sallatha Sutta, an Arahant will still experience physical feelings of pleasure and pain, but he wi...

Hi! I don't know if this was brought up before, but I'll put it anyway, in case it could point to something useful: SN 36.21 : On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling near Rajagaha in the Bamboo Grove Monastery, the Squirrel's Feeding Place. There Moliyasivaka the wanderer went to the Blessed O...

Hi bridif1, but my question is where in the suttas do you find they say that the results one gets in this present life are strictly and exclusively due to his past-lives kamma only? Where do you see they rule out the effect of present-live kamma? Just because present-life kamma doesn't give immedia...

Wrong, working hard is a volitional/intentional act that'll result in some wholesome results either in this life or the next. Hi Santa100! I'm not saying that this interpretation is wrong; not at all. But have you considered that this line of thought is not thay different from the one christians ha...

Hi Khemindas! In my opinion, DO is a model created to explain how a past namarupa (tainted by ignorance) gives rise to a new namarupa (tainted as well), after the "contact" link. If ignorance is still present, the first namarupa includes past kamma. After the physical impingement with the sense-door...

Kim OHara wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:42 am ...

Thanks Kim!
This is really useful to keep in mind.
I appreciate you sharing this.

Kind regards!

Volo wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 5:27 am Could it be this one?

Hi, kind Volo!

Yes, that was exactly the one I was thinking about.
I'm really thankful.

Have a wonderful day!

Hi!

I'm sorry for bothering you about this.

I'm looking for a sutta where it's explained that "bad people" is not aware about their unskillful deeds and ways of thinking.

I'd really appreciate any kind of help.
Thanks in advance for your time!

Kind regards!

Hi Auto!

As far as I know, the metaphor of the river and the stream has a lot of uses and interpretations in the suttas.

If we follow your first example without any concern for its context, everyone would be stream-enterers.

Kind regards!

Why, then, does Buddha meditate when he has already achieved everything? The Pali Buddha at Mahaparinibbana Sutta says that meditation makes life more comfortable for an old man whose body is decrepit. Hi Germann! I asked a similar question on Buddhism.SE. Here's the link to that question with an a...

The process of meditation unifies the mind (citta ekagata) and then goes through the process of dyana as vitakka ( apply) vicara ( verify) piti ( mental joy) sukha (feeling beyond vedana- ecstacy) . With meditation one learns to steer the direction to a target. In fact the meditation of satara sati...

If you want to take a look, this question was originally published in Buddhism.SE, here: Which specific process determines where consciousness will alight? Hi! As the title indicates, I don't know how the mind "picks" which sensation to focus on. Considering the huge amount of sense-data being recei...

... Thanks for your time and answer! I think your getting to something that I thought I understood, but maybe I didn't... I assumed that whatever dukkha is felt, it was always a feeling (vedana). Or, basically, that when the chain of DO gave rise to dukkha, what happened was that a mental "pain" wa...