5heaps wrote:particles for example dont exist? collections of particles dont exist?

That's ontology, which is not the Dhamma.

"'Kamma should be known. The cause by which kamma comes into play should be known. The diversity in kamma should be known. The result of kamma should be known. The cessation of kamma should be known. The path of practice for the cessation of kamma should be known.' Thus it has been said. In referen...

I'd simply approach, anjali, and ask how they were getting along.

Talk of kings and robbers...

I don't quite understand how you've derived that four-step sequence from the Sutta...

In the Anatta-lakkhana Sutta and in the Mahavagga of the Dhammapada, the Buddha was referring to the inherent characteristic of the objective universe, suns, televisions, fireworks, comic books, etc. (aka: Anatta-lakkhana Sutta) "Thus, monks, any form whatsoever that is past, future, or present; in...

It's awesome, as I didn't think of Paṭiccasamuppāda as having the linguistic complexity it does. What was Ananda thinking, saying it was easy!

A joke on the idea of a special dispensation (Tantra) validated through the stock phrase Facebook uses on profiles to which ones own is still a stranger, to wit: "Buddha does not share information with everyone..."



lol?

Individual wrote:Does he have Facebook?

Actually he does, but when I tried to visit the page I was told that Buddha only shares certain information with everyone until I add him as a friend - I guess the Tantras have it right!

Viriya wrote:I've heard two different versions of when life begins, i.e., the stream of consciousness entering the womb, from Buddhist teachers.

I get off the train at the bolded portion.

Sound is a thorn for the first jhana, and I recall a Sutta in the Majjhima about a monk who told Ananda to keep the monks quiet because that monk was unable to enter jhana, on account of the sound. As for afterward, there's a Sutta about the Buddha being able to sit alongside a parade procession and...

Also, romanticizing childhood is a thorough mistake - brains aren't fully developed until well into the teenage years, and I'm thinking this is a good reason why ordination can only occur at 20 (19) or later. The idea that mindfulness, or other wholesome traits, are somehow latent and then lost is a...

The Five Aggregates are not dukkha; the Five Aggregates Subject to Clinging are dukkha.

Sorry about the misleading passage, there.

Likewise with alcohol, when a certain degree of clarity and wisdom has been achieved, alcohol would not really obstruct it The Sutta isn't off the top of my head, but I know the Buddha soundly corrects a monk who says something similar. It warrants finding, as the view here professed is wholly wron...