i reported your 1st post here as being off-topic. if this monk was a good teacher, you would be able to answer the questions on this topic (rather than post more unsubstantiated guru worship). every poster on this topic says they cannot understand this monkconfusedlayman wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 7:34 am what refuted? where? send link? is it refuted by senior monks or arhants or is it refuted by online forum users who cant maintain 8 precepts everyday?
please answer the OP question below to prove what you have posted is true. thanks .
lostitude wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:32 pm Hello,
I was wondering if anyone here had seen this video:
In it, Bhante Nyanamoli discusses several points that I can’t quite grasp.
First, he seems to be saying (please correct me if I’m wrong) that to achieve first jhana, one must get rid of the assumption that speech is external to thinking. I can’t wrap my head around this notion. Is there anyone who believes they stop thinking when they talk as if those were two separate things? It really puzzles me.
Then around the 26-29 min mark he briefly talks about rebirth and makes what sounds like a very interesting point, but then again I’m not sure I understood it correctly. He appears to be saying that rebirth and recollection of previous lives are possible because one’s experience is internal to oneself, it does not depend on the outside world, so when we die and live again, we are just picking up the same point of view but in an internal context that’s different from the one before. Or something like that.
He then goes on to discuss the assumption of externality as apparently deluded - but again I really don’t think I’ve understood this properly. Is he in a way advocating for the idealistic view that matter "outside" doesn’t have any objective existence?
Thanks.