There is no CT that comes or has come to a conclusion. It’s only people / beings that can come to a conclusion. And there is a difference between presenting what others did say or did conclude and what one self understood and can thereby contribute. The focus here is on understanding the Theravada ...

No I'm saying that terminology is all a matter of convention, but that terms refer to events or things that can be agreed on by reasonable people as existing or happening. Your own comparison of sunrise is a case in point. Since it's pointless talking with someone uninterested in reason when it con...

There is a self - there is no self - extreme philosophical standpoints / the two naturally occurring extreme concepts of understanding existence (dependent origination of the skandhas) which one can avoid. The skandhas arise in dependence upon conditions, but the self is only a view. "Sabbe dh...

Sounds like Buddha-nature Yes, but what about this, from AN 1.49: "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that — for the well-instructed disciple of...

And can you please tell whether koshas(sheaths) and khandas(aggregates) are one and the same? so i could then say whether it also apply to khadnas being the self according to the hinduism. In the Upanishads the koshas "enclose" the Atman. The koshas are not-Self. In the suttas the khandas...

auto wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:11 pmbullies..

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:58 pm

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:50 pm

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:03 pm All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

Random quote which is nothing to do with Theravada, it's inappropriate here.

Can Theravadists not use the word soul?

Cappucino has no interest in Theravada.

auto wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:58 pm

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:57 pm Because your views and Advaita are the same, or some forms of Mahayana that teach there is a true self.

what views?

Now you're just trolling.

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:57 pm

auto wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:55 pm

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:53 pm I'd suggest you go to an Advaita forum.

Why? you keep suggesting it for many times, but not telling why

Because your views and Advaita are the same, or some forms of Mahayana that teach there is a true self. Your views don’t align with the suttas and Theravada.

Exactly.

I currently focus on Advaita. It's because I've practised both Advaita and Theravada that I understand the differences between them. You, along with another prolific poster here, want to make Theravada sound like a version of Advaita, which it clearly isn't. :thumbsup: This is a good approach. It i...

thepea wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:59 pm Is Buddha immortal?

The suttas don't specify what happens to an Arahant after death.

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:03 pm All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Socrates

Random quote which is nothing to do with Theravada, it's inappropriate here.

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:55 pm

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

Fine, ordinary person

See my signature.

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:44 pm

Spiny Norman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:43 pm Sabbe dhamma anatta.

The Discourse on the Not-self Characteristic

Anatta-lakkhana Sutta

Bhikkhus, form is not-self.

That supports "sabbe dhamma anatta".

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:11 pm

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

Sabbe dhamma anatta.