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by pegembara
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

Can we say that everything experienced changes from moment to moment This is said, inconstancy It’s not saying no self The "self" is also inconstant and changes moment to moment. Without essence, empty. A cup of cappucino includes the coffee beans, the aroma, taste, Bolivian, Peru, Africa...
by pegembara
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Abandoning pleasure & pain
Replies: 102
Views: 3405

Re: Abandoning pleasure & pain

Which sutta says the body disappears or arises and passes? Anattalakkhana Sutta- "Bhikkhus, how do you conceive it: is form permanent or impermanent?" — "Impermanent, venerable Sir." — "Now is what is impermanent painful or pleasant?" — "Painful, venerable Sir.&qu...
by pegembara
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:52 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

birds … They never existed At Savatthī. Then the Venerable Kaccanagotta approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Venerable sir, it is said, ‘right view, right view.’ In what way, venerable sir, is there right view?” “This world, Kaccana, for the most p...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

Like dinosaurs? Did they exist and perish, or they always existed and will continue existing? They still exist birds … They never existed since they are without essence or self. Change is inconsistent with self or permanent existence. Caterpillar is caterpillar and butterfly is butterfly. The cater...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:14 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:11 am
pegembara wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:10 am Do they exist, and shall exist?
Of course
Like dinosaurs? :shrug:

Did they exist and perish, or they always existed and will continue existing?
by pegembara
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:10 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

cappuccino wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:03 am
pegembara wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:49 am was anything annihilated? Or did anything stop existing?
No… you exist, you shall exist
Ok. Do they (caterpillar, tadpole, embryo) exist, and shall exist?
It's a simple yes or no or it depends.
by pegembara
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:09 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The relationship between kamma and sankharas
Replies: 12
Views: 267

Re: The relationship between kamma and sankharas

"Kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a lower property... a middling property... a refined property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in...
by pegembara
Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:49 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

Eternalism is … while annihilationism is Eternalism means you do not change (You are the same person you always were) Annihilationism means you won’t exist (Period) So- When a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, a tadpole into a frog, and an embryo into a baby, was anything annihilated? Or did anyt...
by pegembara
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Abandoning pleasure & pain
Replies: 102
Views: 3405

Re: Abandoning pleasure & pain

Which sutta says the body disappears or arises and passes? Anattalakkhana Sutta- "Bhikkhus, how do you conceive it: is form permanent or impermanent?" — "Impermanent, venerable Sir." — "Now is what is impermanent painful or pleasant?" — "Painful, venerable Sir.&quo...
by pegembara
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:38 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

was anything annihilated? existence continues So you agree that nothing is annihilated because there are no things that inherently exist in the first place? All is dependent arising. "Insofar as it is empty of a self or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world ...
by pegembara
Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:58 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: The great cappucciNO SELF debate
Replies: 760
Views: 19391

Re: The great cappucciNO SELF debate

Inconstancy is true, but Annihilationism is not the teaching Yes, with inconstancy things don't exist one minute then cease to exist, if they are no longer recognisable as what they were before they have changed into something else, also "thingness" is provisional. From this point of view...
by pegembara
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:37 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: What is the best place (limb) to start studying Dependent Origination?
Replies: 7
Views: 400

Re: What is the best place (limb) to start studying Dependent Origination?

Dependent origination is a formulation of how suffering arises. The best place to start is to see within oneself how suffering begins and then see how it fits into the scheme, not the other way around. In other words, the best time and place to understand the cause of suffering is when one is experi...
by pegembara
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:02 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: Abandoning pleasure & pain
Replies: 102
Views: 3405

Re: Abandoning pleasure & pain

Babies cry when you stick a needle in them because it hurts and there is a automatic withdrawal reflex that prevents further damage to the body. It's all automatic. Pain is the price of having a body. The reward is pleasure. Pain- pleasure, pleasure-pain. Magandiya “So too, Māgandiya, if I were to t...
by pegembara
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If Nibbana experience here and now?
Replies: 6
Views: 341

Re: If Nibbana experience here and now?

What I meant was why people who do bad Karma now do not experience it this life itself too? Say for example take the war which is going on now. Do you mean Putin is sleeping soundly without fear that something bad may happen to him? His actions show that this is not the case. What about being viewe...
by pegembara
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: If Nibbana experience here and now?
Replies: 6
Views: 341

Re: If Nibbana experience here and now?

All that you are experiencing “now” which includes body, feelings, memories, thoughts, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch are the resultants or effects of past causes. "There is that dimension where there is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor wind; neither dimension of the infinitud...