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- Sat Feb 16, 2019 3:35 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Post sutta quotes that utterly rule out nibbana being consciousness or self
- Replies: 69
- Views: 20414
Re: Post sutta quotes that utterly rule out nibbana being consciousness or self
"Now what, bhikkhus, is the Nibbana-element with no residue left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant... completely released through final knowledge. For him, here in this very life, all that is experienced, not being delighted in, will be extinguished . That, bhikkhus, is called the Nibbana-element ...
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Eternal citta in "Theravada"? ---> probably Found.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 9523
Re: Eternal citta in "Theravada"? ---> probably Found.
Speaking of annihilation - complete destruction or obliteration of the idea of being a 'being'. I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then Ven. Radha went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him sa...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:56 am
- Forum: Vipassanā / Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvana
- Topic: Correct apprehension of impermanence
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6294
Re: Correct apprehension of impermanence
All that arises passes away. Going, going, gone. “Bhikshus,when the perception of impermanence, is cultivated, often developed, completely destroys all sensual lust, completely destroys all lust for form, completely destroys all lust for existence, completely destroys all ignorance, abolishes all &q...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:22 am
- Forum: Theravāda for Beginners
- Topic: Why aren't volitional formations the only aggregate?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3817
Re: Why aren't volitional formations the only aggregate?
This rendering, as pointed out by Ven. Nanananda [Towards calm and insight, 1993] may best do justice to Buddha's effort to make his language understood to all, who are ready to open themselves to his message of salvation, without discrimination as to one's social and educational background. 'Prepe...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:27 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Happiness does NOT exist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2596
Re: Happiness does NOT exist
"With regard to those brahmans & contemplatives who are of the view, of the opinion, that 'All is pleasing to me': That view of theirs is close to being impassioned, close to bondage, close to delighting, close to holding, close to clinging. With regard to those brahmans & contemplativ...
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 4:45 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Self vs Not-Self
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1163
Re: Self vs Not-Self
Greetings, You are right. Things being not self would imply that there is an actual self! Sorry, but this logic is absurd. To say "A is not B, therefore B exists" makes no sense whatsoever. This hand is not a unicorn... therefore there is an actual unicorn!? :shrug: I think not. Metta, Pa...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Self vs Not-Self
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1163
Re: Self vs Not-Self
Buddha teaches what the self is NOT. This doesn't mean that there is no self at all. You are right. Things being not self would imply that there is an actual self! But then there is the teaching Sabbe sankhara anicca, Sabbe sankhara dukkha, Sabbe dhamma anatta. Dhamma means all things(conditioned a...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:46 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rareness of human birth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3711
Re: Rareness of human birth
See SN 12.17 "'The one who acts is the one who experiences [the result of the act]' amounts to the eternalist statement, 'Existing from the very beginning, stress is self-made.' 'The one who acts is someone other than the one who experiences'[2] amounts to the annihilationist statement, ' For ...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:27 am
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Who put's down the burden ?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6494
Re: Who put's down the burden ?
Annihilation An*ni`hi*la"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. annihilation.] 1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. http://...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:32 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rareness of human birth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3711
Re: Rareness of human birth
This is not only a wrong view but a logical contradiction. If you're implying the individual/identity is nothing but a fabrication, then the individual never existed in the first place, only delusion did. The Buddha many times says "I was that brahman in that life". Also identity labels a...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rareness of human birth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3711
Re: Rareness of human birth
But the individual called budo or Mark Twain will never again be reborn. This is not only a wrong view but a logical contradiction. If you're implying the individual/identity is nothing but a fabrication, then the individual never existed in the first place, only delusion did. The Buddha many times...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 6:38 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is the difference between Bhava and Jati?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1591
Re: What is the difference between Bhava and Jati?
Jati is conventional birth. Bhava- 'existence' Bhava Tanhā -craving for continuity of 'existence' “There are these three states of existence. What three? Existence in the sensual realm, the realm of luminous form, and the formless realm. These are the three states of existence. The noble eightfold p...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rareness of human birth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3711
Re: Rareness of human birth
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain That quote doesn't align with Buddhism , which believes in rebirth. Also unless you're an arahant the moment up until death the mind is ...
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:18 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Rareness of human birth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3711
Re: Rareness of human birth
“Bhikkhus, suppose a man would throw a yoke with a single hole into the great ocean, and there was a blind turtle which would come to the surface once every hundred years. What do you think, bhikkhus, would that blind turtle, coming to the surface once every hundred years, insert its neck into that...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:30 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Wisdom vs will
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1381
Re: Wisdom vs will
The first step is right view. Then the will to take the right steps. One starts from the position that there is a 'self'' that needs to be liberated. "And how is right view the forerunner? One discerns wrong view as wrong view, and right view as right view. This is one's right view. And what is...