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by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 6
Views: 267

Re: Greetings

Greetings Arnold,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.

:buddha1:

Metta,
Paul. :)
by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Which disagreements on practice and doctrine are actually aDhammic?
Replies: 41
Views: 1681

Re: Which disagreements on practice and doctrine are actually aDhammic?

Greetings SDC, Mike, all, The belief that the comportment of another implies a practice is successful is absolutely none other than the belief that one’s own choice of action implies the same about their own. That is pure sīlabbata-parāmāsa , which as an upādāna , is a wrong emphasis of the value of...
by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:09 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mindfulness is a technique?
Replies: 116
Views: 3300

Re: Mindfulness is a technique?

Greetings Sam, Thanks for sharing your perspective. I think there seems to be a little bit of a disconnect perhaps in what members mean by "technique" as I certainly wouldn't describe the sutta you shared as being a "technique". The fundamental objection to "technique" ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10244

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings Robert, A few passages in particular that appear to accord nicely with the Early Buddhist view. Spk: Further, "the origin of the world" is direct-order conditionality; "the cessation of the world" reverse-order conditionality. [Spk-pt: "Direct-order conditionality ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:28 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10244

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings Robert, I like this. Things do exist, but not in the way that we normally think that things exist, As per the Kaccayanagotta Sutta: ‘Everything exists’: That is one extreme. ‘Everything doesn’t exist’: That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:52 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19722

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings, potential for an overlapping cosmology between Buddhism and Christianity, than the vast majority of even Buddhists and Christians would be able to comprehend, let alone willing to accept. Reality is being described by both Fiction is also describing reality I think that's true. Human lang...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:40 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19722

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Cappuccino, Well, yes, realms are another area altogether - yet one where Buddhism and Christianity both have more overlap than the "rational" Western scientific mind would be willing to accept. I've been having some interesting correspondence with a Buddhist recently who sees fa...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:31 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19722

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings, Western scientific mind that rejects the supernatural. lack of faith (doubt) is a hindrance or fetter Agreed. There's certainly a transition of view involved into accepting even the Buddha's accounts of supernatural powers, nevermind those of Jesus (hence the common derision of God as a &...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:27 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19722

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings, One thing I'm finding interesting at the moment is where Christianity and Buddhism intersect and oppose the Western rational mind in the context of miracles and healing. Stories of supernatural ability and healing are littered throughout the Bible, but in Buddhism we also see the Buddha c...
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10244

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings,
Ceisiwr wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:22 pm Sañña is just as much a noumenon as the mahābhūta are.
No. Sañña is phenomena.

Metta,
Paul. :)
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:18 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10244

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings, What if the mahabhuta are said to be impermanent, subject to destruction, clung to by the mind, etc? Then the rupasanna should not be conflated with the mahabhuta. This topic has become rather unhinged with so many people autistically denying that things exist, independent of their person...
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:08 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Question on Depedent Origination
Replies: 16
Views: 672

Re: Question on Depedent Origination

Greetings abhinav1, Hello dear Dhamma friends, I am studying the Buddha's teachings on Dependent Origination (right now reading Mn 38 - Longer Discourse on Ending of Craving) but I am not able to get my head past one thing - what is the first starting point in the chain of dependent origination? Bud...
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10244

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings, The thing touched is the thing touched. Still a dhamma, for SN 35.68: Wherever, Samiddhi, there is the eye, the visible forms, the visual consciousness and the things perceptible with the visual consciousness, there is a world or a concept of a world. Wherever there is the ear... nose... ...
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:45 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 19722

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings, Aye, 'tis. There's very little room for so-called "mahākaruṇā" on the part of the Buddhas in the buddhology you are outlining. They have only rapture and equanimity in their range of emotional experience, according to your recent post. I was surprised to see compassion left off ...
by retrofuturist
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Ajahn Martin is Despondent
Replies: 58
Views: 3332

Re: Ajahn Martin is Despondent

Greetings, Afaik the Buddha didn't provide much detail on the day to day workings and etiquette at a forest monastery, which is what Ajahn is talking about here, of course following the Buddhas teaching is a given. What is clear is that practising according to the suttas and vinaya involves living i...