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- Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Replies: 384
- Views: 13867
Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
On the trillions of mind moments per second, according to Ledi Sayadaw you aren't meant to gain insight into that as its not possible. The idea here seems to be that only Buddhas are capable of it. Then isn't this sort of teaching that belongs to the leaves in the forest as opposed to handful of le...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:36 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Replies: 384
- Views: 13867
Re: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
B) How the suttas set out sense perception. For example, only being able to feel one feeling at a time. That dependent on eye and sights, eye consciousness arises etc. Do the suttas actually say this? Why can't one, for example, see and hear at the same time? When you watch TV, do you go blind mome...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
- Replies: 384
- Views: 13867
When & why did the teaching on momentariness emerge?
Hello all, In the later texts, they talk a lot about momentariness. In the early suttas, however, the teaching on momentariness ( khaṇika ) seems to be conspicuously absent. One would have to search very deep for vague statements that with some stretch might be construed as implying momentariness. Q...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does this breaks the 3rd precept?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 5801
Re: Does this breaks the 3rd precept?
... My understanding is that a Buddha, or an Arahant, through any lack of desire and even perception of "Atta", isn't really a "being" when you can't pin down the Tathagata as a truth or reality even in the present life — is it proper for you to declare, 'Friends, the Tathagata ...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Coping with Pericopes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1363
Re: Coping with Pericopes
Hi Alex, you could be right of course that the Buddha learned those eight facets before the night of enlightenment, a long gap of time. However conversing with devas belongs to the world of the two first Knowledges. As he gives no indications of past-life recall before that night of awakening, and ...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: litmus test Buddhist interpretations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1070
Re: litmus test Buddhist interpretations
The quote below is another litmus test that I believe is very powerful one: “As for the qualities of which you may know, ‘ These qualities lead to utter disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding ’: You may categorically hold, ‘ Thi...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:42 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Coping with Pericopes
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1363
Re: Coping with Pericopes
I have just given an example where the pericope of the Buddha's 'three watches' account of his enlightenment is highly limiting because it does not include the eight factors he learned from devas, as in AN 8.64. Given the Buddha's inexhaustible use of simile, synonym and metaphor it is inconceivabl...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1064
Re: If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
To my way of thinking, if something happened to me I'd prefer to avoid a situation where they are telling my wife that I died anyway and now they want her to pay a million dollars for time spent in the ICU. If I am on life support and there is no way of significant improvement (good enough to pract...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1064
Re: If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
Ideally the patient has a living will which gives instructions in this scenario. What if one's parent wants to go off life support and asks one to give Dr the permission. How to avoid potential heinous kamma? Refuse to take any stance on the issue? I hope never to be in such a position. But it is a...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4349
Re: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
Hello Pulsar,
Dukkha, as a potential, always is as long as 5 aggregates are.
Anyone below Arhatship can suffer to the level of their kilesas.
Bodily pain is experienced by all (unless in appropriate level/kind of samadhi).
Dukkha, as a potential, always is as long as 5 aggregates are.
Anyone below Arhatship can suffer to the level of their kilesas.
Bodily pain is experienced by all (unless in appropriate level/kind of samadhi).
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1064
If person asks to be to be removed from it. Is it breaking the 1st precept
If a person is in a hospital on life support, asks the doctor to remove life support, does the doctor break the 1st precept ? If the doctor requires the permission of someone else to remove life support, does the person who gives permission breaks the 1st precept? I hope this is a situation no one h...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4349
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4349
Re: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
According to Ven. YinShun, “the discourses, mixed prose and verse, expositions”, i.e. angas 1. Sutra/Sutta, 2. Geye/Geyya, 3. Vyakarana/Veyyakarana are found in SN/SA (i.e. the synthesis of the first three angas). ... “quotations, birth stories, marvelous accounts, and questions-and-answers”, i.e. ...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4349
Was there a Canon while Buddha was still alive?
In various suttas there is a mention of: " the discourses, mixed prose and verse, expositions, verses, inspired utterances, quotations, birth stories, marvelous accounts, and questions-and-answers . " "“And how is a bhikkhu one who knows the Dhamma? Here, a bhikkhu knows the Dhamma: t...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:35 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Meditating outside & insects
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1703