Ken said:"Christine, re Jon and Sarah's trip to Noosa: I had assumed that we would be following the standard COME ON IN, THE WATERS FINE, procedure. Remember,...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Mar 31, 2002 12:08 pm
Dear Christine, I secretly hope whenever I write about Paticcasamuppada that I won't get any hard questions as it is so deep. When I was in Bangkok in January...
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Sarah
sarahdhhk
Mar 31, 2002 12:11 pm
Dear Christine & Ken, ... I can see you're both struggling with various kilesa here;-).....What you obviously don't appreciate is that honesty will bring us...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Mar 31, 2002 12:30 pm
... Dear ken, Nice to hear from you and sorry I'll miss the noosa barbie. Comments below. ... know ... find ... between ... identified ... black ... I wrote a...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilo@...
Mar 31, 2002 2:11 pm
Dear Larry, I appreciate the trouble you take giving part of the chapters. There is a printing failure, but this is not in my book, from the Web? tine ...
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Lucy
bijin1492
Mar 31, 2002 3:02 pm
Dear Jon Thanks for your comments. "Final terms of analysis" makes things a lot clearer and avoids confusion with terms like "ultimate"; that mean something ...
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Lucy
bijin1492
Mar 31, 2002 3:02 pm
Dear Sarah Thanks for expanding on rupa. The direct experience of rupa is still no clear to me but, as you say, much of this will be explained later. I should ...
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Lucy
bijin1492
Mar 31, 2002 3:28 pm
Hi Larry & all (sorry about my several days silence) Chapter 2 is actually entitled "THE FIVE KHANDHAS". The text you posted seems OK (though Nina noticed...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Mar 31, 2002 3:41 pm
... but I ... khandhas or 4 ... types of ... directed to ... one to ... Dear Lucy, This is perhaps relevant: From the Abhidhammattha Vibhavani (no English...
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Lucy
bijin1492
Mar 31, 2002 5:14 pm
Lucy asked ... Then went to Google and found this article : "The Ontology of the Prajnaparamita"; by Edward Conze at: ...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
Mar 31, 2002 5:49 pm
Hi Sarah, Yes, I see how we would have to keep being reminded of the reality that we are aiming to perceive, since there are so many aversions and resistances...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
Mar 31, 2002 6:02 pm
Hi Rob, Thanks for reprinting and commenting on this discussion of the four types of Right Concentration. Sometimes it's worth making a partially ignorant...
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Lucy
bijin1492
Mar 31, 2002 6:10 pm
From: "robertkirkpatrick.rm" <robertkirkpatrick@...> _____________ Paramattha dhammas (except for nibbana) ARE the five khandas (or the ayatanas or...
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sukinderpal
Mar 31, 2002 6:45 pm
Dear Rob, Again tonight I am late in responding, but I hope you are not reading this at an odd hour. As long as we have not developed eyes that can see at...
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upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Mar 31, 2002 8:47 pm
Hi, Sarah (and Larry) - In a message dated 3/31/02 3:07:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... ========================= I see nothing at all silly about this...
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upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Mar 31, 2002 10:11 pm
Hi, Robert (and Robert E) - The sutta you quote, Robert, I must admit, is quite persuasive to me in establishing two forms of concentration, numbers 3 and 4,...
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christine_forsyth
christine_fo...
Mar 31, 2002 10:17 pm
Dear Lucy, There are only a few alternatives that I employ (Using vinnana as an example) - 1(a). Search on Google (always exciting (!) e.g. Did you know there...
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christine_forsyth
christine_fo...
Mar 31, 2002 11:08 pm
Dear Sarah (and Ken), ... ).....What you ... Ahhh! honesty ...... so I have to drop the story about the sea- gulls breeding with the sea-eagles and attacking...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Mar 31, 2002 11:30 pm
... all other ... are ... rather ... author ... very ... used here ... Dear Lucy, I much appreciate the careful study you, Larry and others are doing. You...
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LBIDD@...
lbidd1
Apr 1, 2002 1:20 am
Dear Nina & ADL group, Nina, thank you for pointing out these errors. I have been copying the text from here http://www.abhidhamma.org/abhid.html which I...
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christine_forsyth
christine_fo...
Apr 1, 2002 1:55 am
Hi Larry, Nina and All, The text on Amara's site http://www.dhammastudy.com/abhid.html also includes the error. Clearly an original transcribing error, so...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Apr 1, 2002 1:57 am
... Hi Nina and larry, I took the book from dhammastudy.com as I don't have pdf capabilities on my website so couldn't get it from zolag.co.uk robert ... the ...
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LBIDD@...
lbidd1
Apr 1, 2002 3:15 am
Dear dsg, I was lying in bed this morning observing my thoughts and it occurred to me that _all_ akusala citta are conceptual, even if there are no words ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilo@...
Apr 1, 2002 5:07 am
... Dear Rob Ep, Yes, <The Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship> and commentary, translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, and I think it is likely to be on line. Nina....
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Sarah
sarahdhhk
Apr 1, 2002 5:33 am
Nina, Many Happy Returns of the Day and may you have many more filled with dhamma reminders, joy and wisdom. metta, Sarah & Jon ======================== ...
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robertkirkpatrick.rm
robertkirkpa...
Apr 1, 2002 5:43 am
... Dear Rob. E. Thanks for explaining more what you mean. I appreciate your honesty in saying you haven't experienced jhana. As has been said before according...
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Kenneth Ong
ashkenn
Apr 1, 2002 6:43 am
... k: Sarah, thanks for the definition. When Buddha speaks about kalama sutta, to me it is use in a conventional sense. He knew that humans are always...
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wangchuk37
Apr 1, 2002 7:22 am
the April update to the Buddhist bibliography is now online at : http://www.cyberdistributeur.com/buddbib.html I have listed new Buddhist web sites at : ...
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Kenneth Ong
ashkenn
Apr 1, 2002 7:43 am
Hi Sukin As what you have said, concepts have no reality. (that is when we are talking in Abhidhamma language). This was written in conventional sense to...
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christine_forsyth
christine_fo...
Apr 1, 2002 7:57 am
Hi RobEp, Regarding the Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship, if you can't find it on-line, it is available from Buddhist Publication Society (delivery takes...
