DNS wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:13 pm Others have already done this many, many times.

Not even once

DNS wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:09 pm But you won't find the self or a soul in Theravada.

A quote from Buddha would suffice


Otherwise you are saying what Buddha never said


And why are you doing that

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:56 pm Meh. More new-age cliched nonsense.

Buddhism is nonsense?

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:54 pm I don't wish to understand your new-age nonsense.

Fine, ordinary person

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:53 pm Only if you insist on muddling it up with new-age stuff, like your neo-Advaita/Christian mush.

This attitude is why you remain ordinary

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:51 pm Again, you're not interested in discussing Theravada, just promoting your personal new-age views, a sort of neo-Advaita/Christian mish-mash.

Your accusations do not help you understand


They prevent it actually

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:45 pm want to make Theravada sound like a version of Advaita, which it clearly isn't.

Buddhism is subtle and difficult


It’s not impossible, but requires extra effort

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:42 pm Anatta negates Atman or "soul"

No…

That’s a lazy err

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:19 pm If soul is defined as eternal, then how can you equate it with atman?

There is no Buddhist position about soul

You think the mind goes somewhere when we die? "I recollected my manifold past lives … 'There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan, had such an appearance. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there...

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:21 am Like a commentary thing or sutta references?

Astrology

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:30 pm The mind is temporary, so are it's states.

Inconstant, not temporary

thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:33 pm For you and me perhaps, but for someone extreme poverty they may not feel the same.

Worry about you

thepea wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:40 pm higher realm where suitable conditions of practice exist.

this is the best place to practice


right now