It's also said samsara=nirvana. No. There is, monks, an unborn[1] — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there i...

The trouble is not loneliness per se but the thoughts associated with loneliness. Quotes: Loneliness is the desire to stay away from others, to remain alone in your thoughts and your own world, a feeling that can lead to depression, and to seduce himself with bad things and begin to imagine all that...

Pleasant feeling is also unsatisfactory for it leads to dukkha when it is taken away. It is a problem when it becomes an addiction. "A pleasant feeling is inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to vanishing, fading, ceasing. "Seeing this, an instructed di...

people take it as some sort of reprimand and then going to think there is no-self because they don't want to be wrong. But only the one who is accomplished in view sees fabrication is inconstant..therefore "i heard that there is no-self" should be written and avoid telling "there is ...

. On breakage of the link between vedana and tanha, self view is eradicated, for sotapana. At the very same link "hatred" is eradicated, for non-returner. The same is also true for craving [in ultimate level], conceit and ignorance, for arahant. The difference lies in the "sharpness&...

here i speculate that soul is that thing over what all sorts of ideas rise like some may think that you don't have to meditate(no need for conduct and no need for to find deathless..) that you already have a deathless soul etc. The citta has to be developed. yes. here is a Sutta from what you can a...

Tanha. 153. Through many a birth in samsara have I wandered in vain, seeking the builder of this house (of life). Repeated birth is indeed suffering! 154. O house-builder, you are seen! You will not build this house again. For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached...

here i speculate that soul is that thing over what all sorts of ideas rise like some may think that you don't have to meditate(no need for conduct and no need for to find deathless..) that you already have a deathless soul etc. The citta has to be developed. "Luminous, monks, is the mind.[1] A...

Not only Buddhists wish to have a happy life after death. In fact, anyone who has an identity view would want that. Anatta is a unique doctrine in Buddhism. Why? https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.002.than.html enlightened being doesn't die. Enlightened being will leave the body behind ...

All arise from mental intention. Without it, there is no physical or verbal action. All mental phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they have mind as their chief; they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with an evil mind, 'dukkha' follows him just as the wheel follows the hoofprint of the ox t...

Who says generosity has to be material? It is more than that.

The gift of the Dhamma excels all gifts; the taste of the Dhamma excels all tastes; delight in the Dhamma excels all delights. The eradication of Craving overcomes all ills.

Dhammapada

What I am saying is many Buddhist expect to have a happy life after death. (ie. Next birth) Nibbana is about being happy in this life itself. Perhaps we should pay more attention to be happy here and now. There are plenty of advice from Buddha to be happy here and now even if you are not able to at...

It can be both in the past and in recent times. Valhalla, Old Norse Valhöll, in Norse mythology, the hall of slain warriors, who live there blissfully under the leadership of the god Odin. Valhalla is depicted as a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar...

Space("emptiness") is dependent on forms. Without forms the idea of space is meaningless. I doubt the ancients had any concept of curved space and time ala Einstein. But it isn't unconditioned even by modern theories. Rather it is an experiential quality. "Furthermore, with the comple...

If it's not you that will be reborn, why care about the future? Delight in the senses is why. https://www.buddha-vacana.org/sutta/samyutta/salayatana/sn35-020.html At Savatthi. "Monks, I will teach you the burden, the carrier of the burden, the taking up of the burden, and the casting off of th...