VII. TALENT'S JOURNEY CERTAINTY There is no wavering things regarding the mind track that has been left by The Buddha. The only problem is that different...
Dear Robert: My dream life is the gold nugget in the plain rock of my existence. EVERYTHING in my dream life is more intense, and FEELS closer to "me" (by many...
I don't get the impression that dreams are another life or existence but they are inner experiences. A dream becomes a lost experience if you cannot recapture...
Friends: Independent Bliss = Nibbana: The Blessed Buddha said: There is, friends, an Unborn, Unbecome, Uncreated, and indeed Unconstructed State! If there were...
Friends: Absence of Agitation: Not attending to the experience of People or City, the monk focuses on the single, even & same experience of Forest...! His mind...
Friends: Feeling (Vedana): Causes & Effects: Definitions: There is Pleasant Feeling = mental joy & bodily pleasure. There is Painful Feeling = mental sadness &...
VIII. DRAINING TAINTS OUT FADING OUT Mind's tracks are there as we proceed. Each of us does have the mind's track. These are footprints of the mind. These...
Hi Jeff, Thank you very much for being so generous with your time and resources concerning the jhanas booklet. These dharma gifts are priceless. I was one of...
Friends: The Advantage of Straight Talk: The Buddha said: Such talk that deal with withdrawal, with elimination, with release, leading to complete detachment,...
Dear Dhamma Friends, Patthana Dhamma is discussed here at this site www.geocities.com/htootintnaing/patthana1.html . So far there have been 48 pages. recently...
Hello again, I have been reading a variety of material today and I noticed that a number of words are seemingly used carelessly by various authors. Today's ...
Dear Dhamma Friends, Another pages come here at www.geocities.com/htootintnaing/patthana49.html and www.geocities.com/htootintnaing/patthana50.html ...
Dear Chris, You asked a good question. And it is very basic of all meditations. There are different kinds kamma. Depending on where kamma will give their...
The way I learned about samadhi was from reading books on raja yoga. The sequence goes from dharana to dhyana to samadhi. Then I learned that there are many...
See www.Swamij.com In the ladder of Yoga,there are eight steps, the fifth of which is pratyahara. Pratyahara means withdrawal of the senses. Following that are...
Dear Dhamma Friends, Another pages come here at www.geocities.com/htootintnaing/patthana51.html . The Introductory part ofthe whole writing is started on the...
Friends: The 8 Pleasures of the Reclusive Sage (Samana-Sukha): The absence of possessions & possessiveness... Blameless daily begging of alms food... Composed...
Hello Chris and others, many apologies for the problems with the GWV archive. My web designer says the problem is a conflict between Microsoft and Netscape....
Hello Chris, and thank-you for your excellent question. And, thank-you for the excellent contributions of Craig, Tom, Janet and Htoo Naing on this subject....
Hi Jeff, I use the stock-standard Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0.2 and I think that much of the world does the same. I once worked with a web designer who...
Hello again, Jeff, it seems to me that the HTML being displayed in your web documents is repetitive and may indicate a punctuation clause in the code at the ...
Hi Jeff, As always, thank you very much for your excellent help. Your reply is very much in keeping with similar assistance I received from Bhante Vimalaramsi...
Dear Friends, When jhanas are being practised, it will be beneficial to know what are jhana cittas. Without such knowledge, jhana is hard to attain. There are...
Shamatha holds the mind on an object. Vipassana can investigate the object. At first, that investigation will break the concentration it is based on. With...
Hello, I'm headed for surgery on my back. Pain in my right leg is unbearable, did something to a disc. I don't necessarily wish to rehash the past, but was...
Hi all, After several months of waiting, I've finally received Handful of Leaves - Vol. I - IV, translated and compiled by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. (From the...
Hi all, After several months of waiting, I've finally received Handful of Leaves - Vol. I - IV, translated and compiled by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. From the website...
Dhamma greetings Janet, Thank you very much for contributing this article and the link to the originating web site. The material has done much to ease my...
