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- Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:01 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
- Replies: 72
- Views: 10037
Re: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
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...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Worshipping to the gods in early Buddhism
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2064
Re: Worshipping to the gods in early Buddhism
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.
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: N8P - Gradual or not gradual ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2050
Re: N8P - Gradual or not gradual ?
The sequence of stages of the Eightfold Path of Aryans is the most optimal.
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:55 am
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Jhana
- Replies: 555
- Views: 202992
Re: Jhana
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...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:51 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Jhana
- Replies: 555
- Views: 202992
Re: Jhana
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, ...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
- Replies: 72
- Views: 10037
Re: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
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...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:15 pm
- Forum: Samatha Bhāvana
- Topic: Jhana
- Replies: 555
- Views: 202992
Re: Jhana
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...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:00 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: The names of sutras in which 12 nidanas are sorted for 3 lives
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4590
Re: The names of sutras in which 12 nidanas are sorted for 3 lives
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.
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:46 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Arahant's suicide
- Replies: 208
- Views: 15450
Re: Arahant's suicide
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?
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
- Replies: 72
- Views: 10037
Re: Pure consciousness awareness is the unconditioned.
Unconstructed consciousness does not exist. Postulating this is the path to mahayana or advaita. The ultimate nibbana is the complete cessation of any consciousness.
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:20 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Arahant's suicide
- Replies: 208
- Views: 15450
Re: Arahant's suicide
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...
- Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: jataka tales
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3752
Re: jataka tales
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 ...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Why so much hostility towards Baby Boomer Buddhists?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4541
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:41 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Arahant's suicide
- Replies: 208
- Views: 15450
Re: Old age is dukkha
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...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:35 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Arahant's suicide
- Replies: 208
- Views: 15450