Chuck, I'm playing off of your play since we are both enjoying this experience together. "But I just couldn't resist chancin' 'em all just once around the...
Dear friends, Chapter 6 Good deeds and a wholesome life Not to do evil, to cultivate good, to purify ones mind, this is the teaching of the Buddhas. ...
Hello D.S.G.! I have heard that Sun Ya Ta is the word for the concept that everything has a universal essence that is the same? Is that true? Is this correct ...
Dear Scott, all, ... How does that answers my question? Does viriya, chando, adhimokkho arise or not? Did the things that Buddha have said, conventionally...
Dear Sarah, all ... Exactly, Sarah. Concentration can be wrong concentration, and it can be right concentration. What makes it "Right" concentration is the...
Dear Sarah, I've been studying the first level of vipassanaa-~naa.na, listening as well to discussions with Kh. Sujin bearing on the subject. Would you mind...
Hello all, In Katthavatthu XI, 7 Of the Causality of Things: Controverted Point: That a cause of things is predetermined. From the Commentary. Some, like the...
Dear Ken O, Grateful you post this. < One recognizes the conventional things, which are in reality different elements of hardness. When one sees, for example,...
Dear Dinesh and Jai, welcome here. I am glad dinesh likes the discussions. WE like to hear your comments on these, even a few lines. It is very good for...
Alex: As I was looking over Pali Dhammasangani, I've found strange things. ... Dear Alex, sorry for delays, but I am just back from a trip. I collected your ...
The Great Discourse on Not Self as discussed by Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw. See: http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/mahasi-anat/anat00.htm Two excerpts: All...
dear pt and all, the commentary continues: [Stanza 11] 38. Herein, weeping (ru.n.na"m) is the act-of-weeping (rodana), weptness (roditatta), tear-shedding; by...
Friends: How to be a Worthy Lay Disciple! The Buddha once explained how: I will tell you the way of life of a householder, who becomes a good disciple. Laying...
Dear all If people would not interprete different colours or “translate” them into shape and form, they would not conceive them as beings, people or...
Dear all We should consider whether we are people who are slow in understanding only as regards nåma (mentality), only as regards rúpa (materiality) or as...
Dear all Questioner: Among the forty kinds of meditation subjects of samatha I prefer “Mindfulness of Breathing”. However, I understand that, by means...
Hi, all - Another sutta including the same lesson as the Kalaka Sutta, namely the inseparability of knowing and known, is the Nalakalapiyo Sutta, as shown ...
Hello Sarah, thank you this makes perfect sense once one can see that this only seeing an object at this is the present moment of citta, regardless ...
Dear All, This is the serial presentation of The Buddhist Teaching on Physical Phenomena by Nina. Chapter 1. The Four Great Elements (continuation) Questions...
Hello All, My name is Dinesh. I Just joined dhammasdudygroup and very happy to join the group. Currently I live in Melbourne and have been studying Abhidhamma...
Hello All, I’m an absolute beginner of Abhidhamma. Please help me by answering my following question. What is the citta that arises in one’s mind when...
Friends: How to live the ideal Bhikkhu Life! The Buddha once explained how: Listen well Bhikkhus, I will explain to you the very way to shake off all evil! Let...
Dear Nina, all, If only paramattha dhamma and present moment exists, then how can we be aware of anything else? What is present moment awareness? p1) If...
Dear RobertK2, Nina, and all, I was reading Robert's interview. "Q: Do you agree that it is important if one is serious about developing vipassana that we must...
Hi Group, Can anyone picture Sunyata? Does Sunyata have an appearance? Is Sunyata nothing more than a defination? Defining something, defining anything, is...
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