Rebirth is usually denied outright in materialist society. If it were admitted, it would collapse the whole edifice of purely materialistic modern science , because it is impossible to explain with that same science. Ergo, they try to deny the existence of rebirth all together. any statement that i...

Regarding “reality”. What you see is what you get. The All is all you get. Even if you transcend it you do so by eliminating “contact” with it. You do not do so by eliminating “it itself”. if reality is empty of self/substance , then any a priori domain or authority is simply fictitious. when you s...

(...) to put it another way, is there a dangerous tendency to take Right View as being THE view, as in THE Truth instead of being merely a useful concept? Thoughts? (...) all concepts belong to language and imagination (...) the usual mistake here is that, we utterly believe in language and think t...

AlexBrains92 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:13 pm

What I call "food" is not "food" from the point of view of a stone.
Same goes for the concept "rebirth". It's ultimately a concept, and as such it can have a certain meaning for you but not for me.

and “the point of view of a stone” is not a concept?

(...) so I will have no problem doing it again, if only I find a clear explanation of the transfer of the same stream of consciousness from one body to another. you won't find a clear explanation because there is no such thing. consciousness, or human thought process is a conditional, temporal phen...

Placebo123 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:32 pm (...) Im rather upset about the principle of rebirth and that the same suffering I hab in this life will just be repeated

the nature of our suffering is a result of near-infinite complexity. in order for it to repeat itself, the whole universe must repeat itself. so , no, it won't.

PeterC86 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:39 am Through insight into Dependent Origination, one realizes that one can not seperate wrong from right, through which, one's conscience dissolves.

then i guess a realized person may as well go out and start shooting people randomly , because he's now without conscience.

Dependent origination doesn't allow for monism, nor plurality. what do you understand by the word monism? *** nihilism would deny nibbana.. There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case th...

ven. dhammanando, right , thanks.. So in short, they believe in a self, a material one. Still a common view and sometimes called the scientific picture of the world. is there really a need to call it a "belief"?? self-denial is simply impossible, naturally all humans tend to identify themselves in s...

yes, ucchedavadin believes in a self, (...) ucchedavadin doesn't "believe" in a self, they think that the four great elements alone create one's experience , ie, they're metaphysical materialists.. when they say "atta", they're basically talking about their bodily sensations, and thoughts, which th...

'Natthattā' ti? (no self?) Natthattā may literally translate as "no self" but I sense the meaning includes an explicit belief in self, as explained in the Buddha's final comment (...) it includes that as well, but the buddha also states that he'd be siding with the ucchedavadin if he were to declar...

(...) why does Ignorance (Avijjā) lead to Fabrications (Saṅkhāra)? i think that the best description of the term avijja was given to us by the buddha: "not knowing suffering" .. so , not everyone is familiar with this suffering , the kind of suffering that can only be eradicated by "blowing out" , ...

“no-self” was NEVER declared by the buddha , it is an interpretation of the doctrine. anatta means not-self (or without self) according to nikaya buddhism. in many suttas the buddha teaches that the five khandhas (rupa—forms, vedana—sensations/feelings, sanna—perceptions, sankhara—combinations/tende...

What did Buddha says about notion of time ? arising, decay and alteration. uppado pannayati vayo pannayati thitassa annathattam pannayati — AN 3.47 By saying beginningless does it implied time ? time is not a unified-absolute, therefore beginnings are beginningless. Is it not the concept of infinit...