Dear friends, The outer appearance of things deludes us as to what is really there: fleeting phenomena which are beyond control. We read in the commentary to...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 9:05 am
Dear freawaru, ... N: The lower processes of the brain, that is thinking and in this way the reality of seeing will not be known. In the suttas you will notice...
101814
sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 1, 2009 10:08 am
Hi Howard, ... <Snip> ============ ========= ========= ===== H:> Thank you for writing on this, Sarah. I do indeed hope your analysis is correct, though it...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 1, 2009 10:14 am
Dear Suan, ... [Abbhantare attaa naama uccaarapassaavakamm am karonto natthi, cittakiriyavaayodha atuvipphaareneva pana uccaarapassaavakamm am hoti. Yathaa...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 1, 2009 10:37 am
Dear pt (& all), My original reply was such a mess to this qu, so I'd like to answer it again, so pls 'cut and paste' it into the original if you respond to...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 1, 2009 10:46 am
Dear Alberto & pt, Actually all the detail on the vipaka cittas is contained in Alberto's message and quotes form the Dhsg (#101792). The key to it is the...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 1, 2009 11:00 am
Dear Lukas (& Howard), ... ... S: I think your discussion with Howard is a very interesting one. Hope you both continue. Metta Sarah =======...
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jonoabb
Nov 1, 2009 11:32 am
Hi Howard (101798) ... I do have a mind of my own, I can assure you ;-)), ;-)) The question is not whether there is a knowable distinction between knowing and...
101820
jonoabb
Nov 1, 2009 11:47 am
Hi Herman (and freawaru) (101802) ... It depends of course on your definition of "annihilationism" ;-)). To my understanding, the assertion that whatever...
101821
Lukas
szmicio
Nov 1, 2009 11:48 am
Dear Sarah, Howard Recently I again appreciated listening. I wasnt sure that my posts are helpful for everyone. I can say something and it can be a condition...
101822
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 12:56 pm
Hi Howard (and Jon), ... N: Very important, so long as you take nama and rupa together as a whole, the truth of anatta cannot be known. If I do not...
101823
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Nov 1, 2009 1:07 pm
Hi, Jon - In a message dated 11/1/2009 6:32:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jonabbott@... writes: Hi Howard (101798) ... you will). ... between ... ...
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upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Nov 1, 2009 1:18 pm
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 11/1/2009 7:56:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: N: Very important, so long as you take nama and rupa...
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upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Nov 1, 2009 1:22 pm
Hi again, Jon - In a message dated 11/1/2009 8:18:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, upasaka@... writes: nor is there one that is waiting to be unseen ...
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freawaru80
Nov 1, 2009 1:35 pm
Hello Herman, ... don't let these kind of sutta confuse you. They don't mean what people make them to mean. They are written in a very special language...
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Lukas
szmicio
Nov 1, 2009 2:12 pm
Dear Albert, Connie, Sarah, pt and friends There was Patthana quotation's needed on upanisayapaccaya. 9.Upanissayapaccayoti – purimaa purimaa kusalaa...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 2:51 pm
Hi Howard, ... N: Yes, if you take the seen as on object that is seen. Colour or what is visible arises and falls away, and sometimes it is an object, ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 2:59 pm
Dear Lukas, ... N: No it is different, they are conditions.Temperature, food and lodging and also a person are conditions, by being upanissayapaccaya. Namely,...
101830
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Nov 1, 2009 3:12 pm
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 11/1/2009 9:51:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: Hi Howard, ... N: Yes, if you take the seen as on...
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Lukas
szmicio
Nov 1, 2009 3:24 pm
Dear Nina ... temperature and food are ruupas. So those passage means ruupas that condition citta by way of upanissayapacayyo? lodging looks different....
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 3:25 pm
Dear friends, sutta 3. CSCD Walshe DN 33.2.1(3) 'Five strands of sense-desire (pa~nca kaama-gu.naa): a sight seen by the eye, a sound heard by the ear, a smell...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 1, 2009 3:29 pm
Dear Lukas, ... U Narada in the Guide to conditional relations explains: also concepts can be a condition by way of upanissaya paccaya. Take lodging and...
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ptaus1
Nov 2, 2009 4:06 am
Dear Sarah, Thanks for your reply. ... pt: Okay, that makes sense, but then, even this taking of an object to be "lasting" has to be some kind of a dhamma...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu.sama...
Nov 2, 2009 4:16 am
Friends: How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance? Il Poya day is this full-moon day of November. This sacred day celebrates: 1: The Buddha...
101836
ptaus1
Nov 2, 2009 4:20 am
Dear Sarah and all, I was going through UP, there's this interesting quote in post 32017 and I'm wondering what's the source of the quote: "Thus all of this...
101837
sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 2, 2009 5:17 am
Dear pt (& Alberto & all) ... pt: Thanks very much for attention to detail in your replies to this question, I understand now what you've said. The only thing...
101838
Lukas
szmicio
Nov 2, 2009 6:53 am
Dear Nina, ... L: Now it looks OK. The same with other things. In the Samohavinodhani, There is a section on ruupa being molested. And there is a detailed...
101839
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 2, 2009 7:03 am
Dear friends, It is difficult to understand and accept that whatever arises does so because of its own conditions and that it is beyond control. People ...
101840
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Nov 2, 2009 7:09 am
Dear friends, There are the expressions: overcoming by repression, vikkhambhana- pahåna, and overcoming by destruction, samuccheda-pahåna. Overcoming by...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
Nov 2, 2009 9:06 am
Hi Ken O, ... ... S: Actually, the visible rupas are just as clear, but the eye-sense and other factors affect how the rupas are seen. (I'm pretty sure you...
