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- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:48 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: ... pe ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2520
Re: ... pe ...
From here for reference: ‘‘‘Idaṃ dukkhaṃ ariyasacca’nti me, bhikkhave, pubbe ananussutesu dhammesu cakkhuṃ udapādi, ñāṇaṃ udapādi, paññā udapādi, vijjā udapādi, āloko udapādi. ‘Taṃ kho panidaṃ dukkhaṃ ariyasaccaṃ pariññeyya’nti me, bhikkhave, pubbe …pe… udapādi. ‘Taṃ kho panidaṃ dukkhaṃ ariyasaccaṃ ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:08 pm
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Can a Buddhist drink alcohol in moderation?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 74055
Re: Can a Buddhist drink alcohol in moderation?
That's the main issue, for me: did I intend, today, to follow the fifth precept? If I did, then I cannot later renege and decide to interpret the precept with a loose eye, but if for example there was a party or other social engagement (a faculty meeting, perhaps dinner with the boss) I would have t...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:50 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Right Intention vs. Right Effort?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2815
Re: Right Intention vs. Right Effort?
II. Samma sankappa...... Right intention consisting of nekkhamma-sankappa...... intention of renunciation abyapada-sankappa...... intention of good will avihimsa-sankappa...... intention of harmlessness VI. Samma vayama...... Right effort consisting of samvarappadhana...... the effort to restrain de...
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:06 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: Dorm Room?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2662
Re: Dorm Room?
Time of day alters things significantly. I would meditate in the library, they keep rather broad hours on most days. Book a study room for yourself and use it.
- Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:02 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Theodicy - healing samsara & purgatory
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3745
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:43 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Tripataka for Theravada, like koran for Muslims?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5007
Re: Tripataka for Theravada, like koran for Muslims?
He always ended his letters with the following two words: "Aslim, Taslam!". these two words are derived from the same infinitive Salama which is the root of Salam, i.e. ‘Peace’. "Aslim taslam" actually means "submit (to God) and be saved." Please note that all of these...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 7:21 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Did Lord Buddha accept the authority or reject the vedas?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9236
Re: Did Lord Buddha accept the authority or reject the vedas?
The Vedas, in the time of the Buddha, were being reformulated according to the Upanisads. These texts were giving a symbolic twist to Vedic ritual life such that the last quarter of ones life was spent as an eremite performing Vedic ritual in a purely meditative way, rather than physically. Two of t...
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Tripataka for Theravada, like koran for Muslims?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5007
Re: Tripataka for Theravada, like koran for Muslims?
Actually, the word Islam is a verbal noun originating from the triliteral root s-l-m, and is derived from the Arabic verb salama, which means "to accept, surrender or submit." (per wiki) "Muslim" conjugates the same root to render the meaning "one who submits" (to the w...
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: A new theory/interpretation of kamma and rebirth
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2917
Re: A new theory/interpretation of kamma and rebirth
Heads are gonna 'splode...
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:40 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Metta and Predation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3850
Re: Metta and Predation
Hello MayaRefugee, I'm not aware of any such sutta. Can you please give a traceable link to it? with metta Chris I remember such a tale with these details: a king was demanding a monk to show his enlightenment or he'd cut off a hand or head or such, so when the monk said nothing the hand was cut of...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: When exactly did the Buddha live?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1599
Re: When exactly did the Buddha live?
The dates are known to within a relatively short range, however, which isn't quite the same as being wholly uncertain.
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:17 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Happiness is chosen, not determined: research
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2126
Re: Happiness is chosen, not determined: research
On this note, a TED lecture by Dan Gilbert: here "Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us have the wrong map. In the same way that optical illusions fool our eyes -- and fool everyone's eyes in the same way -- Gilbert argues that our brains systematic...
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:12 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: how much concentration/effort in mindfulness
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2344
Re: how much concentration/effort in mindfulness
In the Dhamma, sati is paying attention to something in a particular way- the satipatthana subjects, with the Anapanasati and Kayagatasati Suttas as guides, oughtn't to be summed up as "just paying attention".Spiny O'Norman wrote:Essentially mindfulness just means paying attention
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:02 pm
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Ordaining today
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4942
Re: Ordaining today
mahamudita
- Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Elements
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5755
Re: Elements
In general terms I think I agree, though I'm puzzled about how anicca and anatta apply - they sound like "natural laws". Looking at "sabbe dhamma anatta", doesn't "dhamma" mean that all phenomena ? And with "sabbe sankhara anicca", doesn't "sankhara"...