@clw_uk , the video below might be of interest to you:)

there is no space without extension and vice versa , A cannot exist without B..

(...) I struggle with the concept of the Buddha being “omniscient, but not omnipotent.” The later half certainly makes sense, but the first is more puzzling. why? omniscience is synonymous with omnipotence. if one is omniscient, one is naturally omnipotent. I don’t believe these words are synonymou...

tpburnham wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:16 am (...) I struggle with the concept of the Buddha being “omniscient, but not omnipotent.” The later half certainly makes sense, but the first is more puzzling.

why? omniscience is synonymous with omnipotence. if one is omniscient, one is naturally omnipotent.

(...) Which means even the desire to practice the noble path is temporary. In a certain mental state, we follow the noble path. But that mental state will cease, as will our motivation to follow the path. And so on and so forth. :anjali: yes, it would seem so, in theory, ie when we are trapped insi...

:namaste: There is no self, only a mechanical karmic process that is mistaken for the self or "I". Isn't this realization enough? If one says no, this isn't enough and that one has to follow the noble path. Again, who is going to follow it? Which self? Which "I"? :anjali: i guess we're lost in sema...

i wouldn't say "unrealistically" but considering that the buddhist ethics (namely the noble eightfold path) form a teleological structure for the individual, yes... nonetheless , buddhism is not "idealism" in the platonic sense; (...) when this exists, that exists, when this arises, that arises, whe...

Listening to music generates demerit (bad deeds, bad kamma)? Listening to music breaks the precepts of virtue? Who listens to music becomes a bad person? Does listening to music generate demerit as much as killing and stealing? i always listen to instrumental music while reading the suttas, helps m...

not possible.

(...) but on the dissolution of the body, beyond the end of his life, neither gods nor men shall see him.

Sutta says in the old days world was crowded as hell. Villages, towns and capital cities were chicken flight apart. (...) i guess we could also say that the sutta is trying to communicate an idea ; greed leads to famine, people killing each other, etc. so it's a criticism of greed , and lust... nee...

:anjali: Even though the excerpt is from a sūtra, a lot of it reads like other early buddhist texts, and I couldn't locate a clear answer on this question. The way I figured it was is that space is conditioned by the perception of form; is that correct? (...) yes , the appearance of space is a cond...

(...) “Is it true that this pernicious view has arisen in you, Sāti: ‘As I understand the Dhamma taught by the Blessed One, it is this consciousness itself that runs on, fares on, not another?’” “That is so, Lord. As I understand Dhamma taught by the Blessed One: It is this consciousness itself tha...

Logic, and logical analysis, depend on abstraction and formalisation. Any logical term, be it an 'x', a 'y', or a dog, is only what it is in the scope of analysis as a result of the process of abstraction and formalisation. We say, a dog has four legs, a table has four legs, blah, blah. What is rel...

Theravada proposes to take on faith the mathematically impossible model of reality: its school Abhidhamma contradicts the theory of probability. The concept of "satta" in the Theravadin Abhidhamma is the concept of not-existent (satta-pannatti is the avijjamana-pannatti). There was no one who could...

“action” and “actor” are not two separate phenomena. the concept “self” (actor), is subsequently «added» to the «action». So it is not the case that “a will that executes the action” exists, for action itself is the will, which is also the execution (here, assigning different names with different co...