Dear Ven. Kumara, you wrote: Thanks for clarifying, Dieter. D: and thank you for still following the issue Ven.: "5 senses are absorbed in imagination" seems...
Thanks for clarifying, Dieter. "5 senses are absorbed in imagination" seems to me a strange phrasing. Do you mean "5 senses are cut off because the mind is...
Perhaps in the first place we have different understanding of what 'absorption' mean. As I understand it is used because of the Visuddhimagga understanding,...
Dear Ven. Kumara , thanks for the link , which I will study and possibly come back ... with Metta Dieter ... From: Kumara Bhikkhu To: Pali@yahoogroups.com ...
Dear Dieter, The matter has already been very well researched and explained by Richard Shankman in his book "The Experience of Samadhi". Geoff Shatz has also ...
Hi Gerard and Ven.Kumara, I suppose the term absorption is differently understood, perhaps you may agree on following sense: The Buddha mentioned that the...
Dear Brian and Pali group, This reply follows Brian's question from 4 Jan 2013. Thanks Brian for this question. I have been reading earlier parts of the...
Well said, Gerard. In Anupada Sutta, the description of states are given in the similar manner, except for the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception,...
Hi Gerard (and Ven.Kumara) thanks for your comment. Please allow me first a few general remarks before I answer in detail. I just come back from a visit to a...
Hi Dieter, I am not a specialist in these matters, but still I venture to make some observations: I think it is not true that "absorption" and "burning up"...
Dear Ven. Kumara and Gerard, thanks for your comments. I like to come back to this matter when I am return from my present travel, having my usual sources...
... You're not the first to notice this. I have this is my book: Among those who have written on this matter, the earliest I have found is Ayodhya Prasad...
... Wonder if anyone has managed to download the whole site. I was told that originally the plan as to have WT distributed in CDs (like CSCD) but somehow the...
Hi Dieter, could you be a bit more explicit: what is the Pali word for “absorbed” , and can you mention a sutta, an exact place if possible, where is told...
I fully agree with that. Richard Shankman's book "The Experience of Samadhi" made this very clear and convincing. Theravada (Visuddhimagga) jhana is not the...
Interesting in this connection are the ideas about meditation and jhana of the American monk Vimalaramsi (dhammasukha.org). According to him the idea of jhana...
Dear Pali friends, A very happy new year. You can also read something about what Chanida has stated below in Gethin, "The Buddhist Path of Awakening," 2001:...
Never mind... I found out that you're using CS reference, which is correctly 1.382. On NDB it's 1.394. I also referred it to the wrong place. Anyway, the one I...
The reason is clear to me, since (for me) jhana simply means meditation. I've included this in my book on jhana and samadhi. It's still growing as more...
Dear Chanida and NIna and all, Earlier in AN 1.53 (English is bodhi trans.) AN 1.53: “Bhikkhus, if for just the time of a finger snap a bhikkhu pursues a...
Dear Nina and Frank, Thanks for your comment, Nina. If you have access to a PTS edition of the Pali canon, I give book and page reference below so that you...
Dear Friends, In the Paramatthajotik commentary on the origin of the Cundasutta (Sn vv 83-90) , there is a long compound which I can not make sense of ...
Dear Chanida and Frank, ... N: As I understand, it is always right understanding that is foremost, also when developing samatha to the stage of jhaana. If one ...
