[...] He is likely saying "awareness", not "when". Similarly, at the 21st second, he says "it's all about coming to awareness", and there, "awareness" sounds very much like "when". P.S. Just like auto is saying above (sorry, I hadn't properly read t...

Many thanks for the interesting set of extracts, but I wasn't quite sure what you were getting at. Isn't saying 'The Buddha was never an anagami in a previous life' the same thing as him saying that he had not 'passed through the round as a god in the Pure Abodes'? Some of the sutta quotes I mentio...

More literally, I think that the Buddha, after a long rest, now lives in the Pure Abodes. I base this on MN12: Sariputta, there are certain recluses and brahmins whose doctrine and view is this: 'Purification comes about through the round of rebirths.' But it is impossible to find a realm in the ro...

The Buddha is Gone.

If you were to pick one collection to start with, start with the Majjhima Nikāya. It contains some key suttas not found elsewhere, but also repeats some material from suttas in the rest of the canon. Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation seems to be the most widespread. (For example, a lot of suttas which men...

I'm just posting the classic suttas on the topic, for reference, in case it is useful: And how, bhikkhus, is there a fourfold corruption and failure of verbal kamma, arisen from unwholesome volition, having a painful outcome and result? [...] He indulges in idle chatter [samphappalāpā] . He speaks a...

My teacher taught me: "If you know it, be happy." That really stuck with me. I could be angry, or do something unskillful, but when I became aware of it, I was happy. When something unskillful came up in the mind, with awareness it didn't stay. Right view is so powerful: You see it, you k...

Here are some sutta quotes that could be relevant: Bhikkhus, before my enlightenment, while I was still only an unenlightened Bodhisatta, [...] I considered thus: ‘Why, being myself subject to birth, do I seek what is also subject to birth? Why, being myself subject to ageing, sickness, death, sorro...

SN 54.8 does have: "I too, bhikkhus, before my enlightenment, while I was still a bodhisatta, not yet fully enlightened, generally dwelt in this dwelling [concentration by mindfulness of breathing]. While I generally dwelt in this dwelling, neither my body nor my eyes became fatigued and my min...

cappuccino wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:44 pmDid had?

JCHappiness likely meant "Did […] have […]" and English is not their first language.

[...] All experiences are impermanent, dukkha , and should be seen as not yours, not you, not yourself ( SN 22.59 ). All experiences are void, hollow, insubstantial -- like mirages or illusions ( SN 22.95 ). We should train ourselves to perceive experiences as merely experiences (~ Ud 1.10 ), witho...

Greetings Paul :anjali: Good questions. Asking if it could be both doesn’t have to stem from a belief, it could just stem from a question. One could likely argue for any of the perspectives you mentioned. The distinction between these perspectives likely matters as well, as they are more or less dif...

Nanananda wrote: Generally, in the explanation of the law of dependent arising, the statement ‘dependent on grasping, becoming’ is supposed to imply that one’s next life is due to one’s grasping in this life. But this becoming is something that goes on from moment to moment.

The simile of the raft from the Alagaddūpama Sutta (MN 22).

... if you have any questions as you read the book, feel free to ask me on a new thread. I'd like to ask about awareness. Because it's a popular term used in Buddhism. But I haven't find or can't remember a Sutta about awareness. Sayadaw U Tejaniya uses the word awareness a lot, a couple of times I...