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- Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Termination of volitional kamma
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2442
Re: Termination of volitional kamma
If anyone could help to explain the meaning of below passage ? Does it mean liberation only can be achieved if one can terminate all previous bad deeds done by experienced all the result ? Exactly so. Suttas are very clear about this (though it goes against commentaries). However, the question you ...
- Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:03 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
- Replies: 829
- Views: 37090
Re: Retrofuturist's Brief Sutta-Based Refutation of Abhidhamma
Yes. And then they started to live their own life, that's how Abhidhamma theory appeared.Matikas were the sources for the later Abhidhamma.
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:28 am
- Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
- Topic: Can a monk tell his followers that he is not fully enlightened?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3427
Re: Can a monk tell his followers that he is not fully enlightened?
Is it likely that someone who's "crossed over beyond doubt" (vitiṇṇakankhā; tiṇṇavicikicchā) might be in doubt about it? From what I remember, suttas explain this (transcended) doubt as a doubt about what mental states are skillful and what are unskillful, but not every kind of doubt. Tak...
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are Jataka stories a collection of old Indian stories?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1168
Re: Are Jataka stories a collection of old Indian stories?
Jatakas are parables.
- Thu May 20, 2021 12:35 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: Uttarakuru lifestyle in jambudivipa?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 833
- Thu May 20, 2021 12:23 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Stream enterer have more than 7 times rebirth !
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2140
Re: Stream enterer have more than 7 times rebirth !
It doesn't mean rebirth as a process. But it does mean a lifetime.No. That sutta refers to an 8th bhava. Bhava does not mean "rebirth".
- Thu May 20, 2021 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Stream enterer have more than 7 times rebirth !
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2140
Re: Stream enterer have more than 7 times rebirth !
Yes, it is impossible.I think in one sutta buddha said stream enterer taking 8th rebirth is 100% impossible .. he said openly..
(He said that, for example, in Snp 2.1).
- Tue May 18, 2021 10:01 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4109
Re: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
Are they? The last I checked those were around 1st century B.C, whereas the commentaries appear to be older than that. What I mean is that "ancient" doesn't automatically mean "correct". All early schools were equally ancient, but at times were very different in doctrine interpr...
- Tue May 18, 2021 9:48 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4109
Re: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
Ven. Anālayo has shown that was is considered to be Aṭṭhakathā in Theravāda is actually directly incorporated into some āgamas in the northern canons. This gives some evidence towards the commentaries being quite old. There are probably a lot of suttas with commentary in them that we just can't det...
- Tue May 18, 2021 1:56 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4109
Re: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
Usually, reliance on the commentaries is justified through a shorter gap in time between them and the historical Buddha than us, hence it is assumed that their understanding is probably closer to the original meaning or less distorted. Time begets gaps and gaps beget mediums. This is a poor argumen...
- Mon May 17, 2021 10:24 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4109
Re: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
The endless interpretations of written texts sheds doubts on the authenticity of oral tradition. Not really. It sheds doubts on so called "Commentaries" and all that kind of later works. It seems like ancient monks lost the right explanation of certain Dhamma aspects very soon after Buddh...
- Mon May 17, 2021 4:18 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Did this modern Russian God create an early Buddhist commune in Siberia???
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1175
Re: Did this modern Russian God create an early Buddhist commune in Siberia???
Some long time ago we had a religious tour to Thai with a Vessarion follower. She tried to proselytize among monks, that was something
- Mon May 17, 2021 4:15 pm
- Forum: Early Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4109
Re: Early Buddhism and the oral tradition
Everything you need to know about authenticity -- https://ocbs.org/wp-content/uploads/201 ... ticity.pdf
- Fri May 14, 2021 3:29 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are the Jhānas the Buddha learned from his teachers before enlightenment the same as the ones he taught after it?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 2920
Re: Are the Jhānas the Buddha learned from his teachers before enlightenment the same as the ones he taught after it?
Although, certainly the jhana that he practiced as a child must be special and unique, for him to remark it as being a breakthrough in his search for awakening, upon memory of it. It seems he has not been in contact with that jhanic state since childhood. It was neither special nor unique. Just ord...
- Thu May 13, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Are the Jhānas the Buddha learned from his teachers before enlightenment the same as the ones he taught after it?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 2920
Re: Are the Jhānas the Buddha learned from his teachers before enlightenment the same as the ones he taught after it?
The Buddha discovered jhana by himself, he did not learn it from his teachers. Not really. He indeed entered the 1st jhana spontaneously in his childhood, however, many other ascetics mastered jhanas too (as several suttas mention). What he did though, is that he resystematized lowest 4 meditative ...