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- Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:55 am
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Abbot is the late concept in Buddhism
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1093
Re: Abbot is the late concept in Buddhism
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.
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
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 ...
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:34 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Jhanas, Misconceptions that have arisen regarding the Four Rupa Jhanas.
- Replies: 254
- Views: 30808
Re: Jhanas, Misconceptions that have arisen regarding the Four Rupa Jhanas.
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...
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
I recommend reading http://api.equinoxpub.com/articles/fulltext/7139 chapter "Final Nibbana".
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
Did the Buddha say that after the onset of the final nibbana without the rest of the fuel, any consciousness continues? No. Such a consciousness is fictional.
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
unconditioned consciousness remains Atman? It is the Unformed, the Unconditioned , the End, ~ S 43.1-44 "And what, bhikkhus, is the unconditioned? The destruction of lust, the destruction of hatred, the destruction of delusion: this is called the unconditioned". SN 43.1 *** Consciousness is imperma...
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:31 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:28 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: What does pari-mukha mean in 16 APS anapana sati?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3549
Re: What does pari-mukha mean in 16 APS anapana sati?
It's just an idiom, meaning "rooting the mind in mindfulness."
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:59 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: How does the exterior is suffering?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1174
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:52 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
Yeah, they're in the meat body in rupa-jhana. And they touch the deathless element with their palmcappuccino wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:10 pmthere is no mental body, you're not making senseAntaradhana wrote: It means touching the mind (meaning mental body) to nibbana.

- Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
Consciousness without feature, without end, luminous all around Nibbana is not viññāṇa. Really, it just isn’t. K those who dwell touching the deathless element with the body. Cunda Sutta It means touching the mind (meaning mental body) to nibbana. The deathless element is one of the poetic epithets...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
https://sujato.wordpress.com/2011/05/13 ... ust-isn’t/cappuccino wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:29 pmConsciousness without feature,
without end,
luminous all around
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
You inappropriately use the term "annihilation." It is appropriate to use it only in relation to a constantly existing entity, and in relation to changing phenomena that arise as one and disappear as the other, it is inappropriate to use it.
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3556
Re: Does the consciousness experience nibbana ?
Not. You do not understand. Without the addition of fuel (tanha), the fire is extinguished, only residual fuel (khandhas formed by past kamma) dies down. With the end of life 5 khandha finally fall apart, only bodily remains remain.