Did Buddha erase who He was?
We still feel His individual, Ultra powerful Energy. He still exists, and will always exist.
Did Buddha erase who He was?
Tathāgata is thought to mean "one who has thus gone"
"Well gone", yes, into the Stream of Nibbana, the void, and beyond this world. However although being many, He is still "one who has this gone", and He cannot be erased. His Mahakaruna and Love are forever. And what are we, if not our Love?
Yes, once there was one, now there are many.
each Buddha is a different person
Yes, but there are no discrepancies in the words of the Buddhas. In many, many ways they are Same, Same.
each rediscovers the basic teaching
Obviously you have not read the last sentence which you don't agree with. Because it is not about the arising of sexual desire but about seeking sexual pleasure and relief and entertaining thoughts about.maniture_85 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:21 amInteresting answer, but i don't agree with the last sentence.SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:23 amNo. Attenuation occurs with Once-Returner, not before. However the sotapanna does not conceptually self-identify with sexual desire anymore, his self does not conceptually depend on the satisfaction of sexual desire anymore. Thus a sotapanna will neither seek sexual pleasure nor sexual relief anymore and will not entertain thoughts about sexual pleasures, fantasies and the like.
Sexual desire can still arise even when one is alone because of past sankaras. It is the same for other defilements which have been lowered but still not fully controlled by the Sotapanna.
Don't be rude Stero Maybe i've not understood it well, maybe because of bad english.SteRo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:43 amObviously you have not read the last sentence which you don't agree with. Because it is not about the arising of sexual desire but about seeking sexual pleasure and relief and entertaining thoughts about.maniture_85 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:21 amInteresting answer, but i don't agree with the last sentence.SteRo wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:23 am
No. Attenuation occurs with Once-Returner, not before. However the sotapanna does not conceptually self-identify with sexual desire anymore, his self does not conceptually depend on the satisfaction of sexual desire anymore. Thus a sotapanna will neither seek sexual pleasure nor sexual relief anymore and will not entertain thoughts about sexual pleasures, fantasies and the like.
Sexual desire can still arise even when one is alone because of past sankaras. It is the same for other defilements which have been lowered but still not fully controlled by the Sotapanna.
What has been said is that the seeking does not start in case of sotapanna. The seeking starts in case of worldling only. Please study and understand the attainments of sotapanna.maniture_85 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:11 amDon't be rude Stero Maybe i've not understood it well, maybe because of bad english.SteRo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:43 amObviously you have not read the last sentence which you don't agree with. Because it is not about the arising of sexual desire but about seeking sexual pleasure and relief and entertaining thoughts about.maniture_85 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:21 am
Interesting answer, but i don't agree with the last sentence.
Sexual desire can still arise even when one is alone because of past sankaras. It is the same for other defilements which have been lowered but still not fully controlled by the Sotapanna.
Anyway, i think one can start "seeking" for it when a stimulus comes, and i think it can come anytime because of accumulated impurity in the mind, or for some kind of mind habit pattern. The seeking can start AFTER the arising of desire
I thought she had ten boys and ten girls?
Later the whole family became Buddha's followers......that she had the good fortune to be the happy mother of ten fortunate sons and ten fortunate daughters.
She died at the ripe age of one hundred and twenty.