The ultimate nibbana is the complete cessation of any consciousness. A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Consciousness is not I/Self, who would be destroyed. It is simply a conditional, suffering and painful process - t...

The vedic fire sacrifices (milk, grain, oil, flowers are thrown into the fire, accompanied by Vedic hymns or mantras). This is practiced now in buddhist countries. For example, in Sri Lanka in many buddhist monasteries there are hearth (kunda) for such sacrifices.

The sequence of stages of the Eightfold Path of Aryans is the most optimal.

You wrote Samans and yogi reach the same jhanas and formless realms as buddhist practices. The difference is only in the views and in the objects to which attention is directed in these states (among buddhists it is tilakhana). I do not subscribe to this view. For me these are mere mental prolifera...

was that buddhist Dhyana or Vedic Dhyana? Samans and yogi reach the same jhanas and formless realms as buddhist practices. The difference is only in the views and in the objects to which attention is directed in these states (among buddhists it is tilakhana). Example from the suttas: Alara Kalama, ...

Greetings, Unconstructed consciousness does not exist. Postulating this is the path to mahayana or advaita. The ultimate nibbana is the complete cessation of any consciousness. Depends what you think consciousness is. Greetings! Consciousness (viññāṇa) is the psyche process of that cognizes, i.e. r...

To me that is baloney. In the fourth jhana, breathing completely stops. Yogi Haridas in the 19th century demonstrated this. He entered samadhi (fourth jhana or in formless spheres), European doctors noted a stop in breathing and heart, his students sealed all his bodily openings with wax, after whi...

Paticcasamuppada describe not three lives, but the principle of conditionality, which encompasses many lives. Avijja, for example, applies to all lives from beginningless times, a pile of suffering refers to possible future lives. 3-9 nidanas are processes that occur during one of the lives.

Germann, why are you not satisfied with the explanation that Arahant does not have a thirst for nonexistence, and that kaya-dukkha-vedana he imperturbably feels, out of compassion for others, to teach them the Dhamma?

Unconstructed consciousness does not exist. Postulating this is the path to mahayana or advaita. The ultimate nibbana is the complete cessation of any consciousness.

Arahant continues to experience the kamma created in the past. The life span, sickness and death of the body is the result of past kamma. Arahant does not have a thirst for non-existence, so he will not kill himself (perhaps there are some exceptions when death is near, and the physiological torment...

Can their storylines be taken seriously? 1. The early part of Jataka is only stanzas. 2. Even the stanzas of most Jataka hardly belong to the Buddha, most likely these are later writings. 3. All the allegations that this was in the past the Bodhisatta or one of his students are contained precisely ...

binocular wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:30 amthe Americanization of Buddhism

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the Pali Arahant has Bodhichitta motivation. Not bodhichitta, but karuna. In the Canon it is said that Buddha and Arahants preach out of compassion for those who have little dust in their eyes, who can understand the Dhamma and attain awakening. For the sake of another's benefit, Arahant neglects o...

Germann wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 1:25 pmthe Pali Arahant has Bodhichitta motivation.

Not bodhichitta, but karuna. In the Canon it is said that Buddha and Arahants preach out of compassion for those who have little dust in their eyes, who can understand the Dhamma and attain awakening.