Dhamma Wheel

Practice of Brahma Vihara by the Buddhist, has a different purpose altogether. Brahma viharas too was a practice that existed before Buddha's time. Buddha used it as a means to calm the mind, to wipe the defilements to enter Rupa Jhanic states, the 8th factor of the Noble Path :heart: Brahma vihara...

Antaradhana you claim one cannot engage in Jhanic meditation without permanently giving up sensual pleasures. Have you read Buddha's biography? When he was a 6 year old, under a rose apple tree, leading the life of a prince immersed in sensaul pleasures otherwise, briefly he left sensual pleasures ...

In theory, any creatures who see the aura of the Buddha and Arahants, at least know that they are unusual, unique, superpowerful creatures, and then some of the devas may become interested, begin to observe, and even stay in our world for a while to listen to Dhamma. Thus, Buddha and Arahants attrac...

JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:23 pm

Viachh wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:19 pm As it is known, only arhants were allowed to the first cathedral

What's the Cathedral? I've never heard of it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20119.htm

unseeingdog wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 8:39 pmI have already decided that I will ordain soon.

Sādhu! Sādhu! Sādhu!

Then we have Brahma Viharas, poetical words used to describe superior states of mind. It does not mean that if we practice brahma viharas, we practically get teleported to brahma world, or deva world, but there is a serenity in the mind of the practitioner, that it appears like a teleportation, but...

...and an4.123 does not state that a person who is able to enter a particular jhana at will is reborn by Brahma in the corresponding world of rupa-loka, after death in the human world... Is said: "There is the case where an individual, withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities,...

I believe that the effect of weed is very different from the effect of alcohol. If alcohol becomes dull, provokes aggressive behavior and disinhibits, then weed on the contrary stimulates creativity, the desire for knowledge and soothes (indica). If alcohol unambiguously provokes bad behavior, then...

Dukkha includes the suffering and the dissatisfaction. Dukkha is three-part: 1. the suffering (physical and mental); 2. the dissatisfaction due to changes (when the pleasant ends, including life in a pleasant world); 3. the dissatisfaction due to conditionality (samsara).

cappuccino wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:52 pm I find there is evidence, I've run across ghosts & angels

Can you tell a detailed story?

cappuccino wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:46 am ~ SN 1086-7

I do not understand what this sutta number is. Write a standard sutta number so that I can see the Pali original. Sometimes the phrase amata-dhatu is translated in this way. Sometimes in poetic stanzas, amatam padam is written for rhythm.

This is due to the fact that the monks began to live in one place, and almost ceased to wander. They took root, and some of them acquired property and power, which is bad, of course.

Did the Buddha say that after the final nibbana without the rest of the fuel, any consciousness continues? it's called the Deathless state Yes, only he calls the element , not the state . The Buddha also calls nibbana "unborn." Because it is a cessation of existence (bhava nirodho), and no further ...

Sutta with an important point: AN 6.73 Paṭhamatajjhāna Sutta: First Absorption (1st) “ Mendicants, without giving up these six qualities you can’t enter and remain in the first absorption . What six? Desire for sensual pleasures, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt...

I recommend reading http://api.equinoxpub.com/articles/fulltext/7139 chapter "Final Nibbana".