Dear colette, Herman, Howard, and Alex, Regarding 'conation' (a mundane psychological term; from a Google search of 'define conation'): "...in psychology, the...
Hi Howard, ... Try as I might, I cannot avoid the conclusion that the idea of causally distinct kammic streams is anything other than self-view. It seems to me...
Hi, Herman - In a message dated 5/17/2008 8:32:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hhofmeister@... writes: Hi Howard, ... I ... I am not arguing for free...
Hi, Herman - In a message dated 5/17/2008 9:06:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hhofmeister@... writes: Try as I might, I cannot avoid the conclusion that...
Hi Howard, ... I don't understand why you read into the Sutta what you do. I do not read the Sutta I quoted to say "there is going to be a process where there...
Hi Howard, ... If I came to believe again, even for a moment, that I was the cause of my own actions, that would put my therapy back 10 years :-) I don't doubt...
Good valued friends, May we limit our discussions to Theravada Buddhism? I have enough trouble with keeping up with your Pali and English discussions. I am...
Hi, Herman - In a message dated 5/17/2008 9:33:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hhofmeister@... writes: Let me reiterate, I do not argue for free will or...
Hi, Herman - In a message dated 5/17/2008 9:43:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hhofmeister@... writes: Hi Howard, ... within a ... facet ... neither ......
Dear Howard and Herman, Regarding: H: "Mind streams are not separate. They interact. They are interdependent." Scott: I'd suggest, in disagreeing, and with all...
Hi, Chuck - In a message dated 5/17/2008 10:15:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dhammasaro@... writes: Good valued friends, May we limit our discussions...
Hi, Scott - In a message dated 5/17/2008 10:25:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, scduncan@... writes: Dear Howard and Herman, Regarding: H: "Mind streams are...
Hi Howard, ... If anatta is a correct statement of the way things are, then what is different about a landslide killing 100 people, and Angulimala doing the...
Hello Howard, Herman and all, ... explicit way, I ... unconditioned ... Of course there isn't a 100% free choice. But let us not think in black or white...
Dear Scott, ... future is set in stone. In such a scenario, action is identical to passivity, whatever is done or not done, that is how things were always...
Hi, Herman - In a message dated 5/17/2008 10:31:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hhofmeister@... writes: Hi Howard, ... If anatta is a correct statement...
Dear Friends, ch.4 continues: Some people wonder how, in the development of satipa.t.thaana, one can at the moment of seeing understand the characteristics of...
Dear Alex, Sarah explained this subject to you and I can add a little from the Visuddhimagga and Tiika, Ch XIV, 71: Tiika: 77. Nipphannaruupa.m panettha...
Dear Howard, Thanks for the reply: H: "Then I take it you also view streams of cittas with the same object as also figments of the imagination? What of the...
Dear Nina, I suppose the site Palikanon.com has been changed to http://www.palikanon.de/ where Khuddaka can be found too.. (assuming N.' s translation) with...
Good friend Howard, et al Very warm thanks for your very quick reply... Just a concern... one step leads to another step to another until we are no longer...
Good friend Howard, et al Very warm thanks for your very quick reply... Just a concern... one step leads to another step to another until we are no longer...
Good friend Howard, et al Very warm thanks for your very quick reply... Just a concern... one step leads to another step to another until we are no longer...
Good friends, I understand, perhaps incorrectly, there are at least two versions of the Abhidhamma (Skt: Abhidharma?)... which version are we discussing? Warm...
Dear Alex, Thanks for the reply. I'd still appreciate your remarks with regards to the difference between the Dependent Origination versus the Conditional...
