...interesting. Clearly it doesn't make you go blind as much as was thought. I suggest sleeping with boxing gloves on, might help re coherence Any, helpful...
Hi Phil, Tony, all, ... And how to get panna in the first place? Mere theoretical knowledge is not enough. It is good only to point the way. Just as you can't...
hi Tony, friends, ... rhetorical connie: why not substitute the non-conceptual experiences arrived at thru the five physical senses? that meditation. ...
Hi Htoo, ... S: You are saying that in theory, the present moment is the reality which has just fallen away, but in practice, the object is always what appears...
Hi Robert E, ... KH: The only advanced status I need from you, Rob, is a willingness to talk about the universe as if it were just one moment of consciousness....
Hi Tony, ... KH: Or, to put it another way, conceptually and directly. ... KH: I think we can use either term; conceptual right understanding and intellectual...
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your notes, very useful! ... ... I think that she introduced these two terms to distinguish between the arising (uppatti) of citta and...
Thanks Ken, Moving on.... K: I wouldn't use the term "mere appearances to the mind" to describe absolute realities. TH: Can you explain why? My understanding...
Hi Tony, Nice to 'talk' to you again, Basically right direct understanding (patipatti) of realities can only follow right intellectual understanding...
Hi kc ... J: No problem. And just to point out that my remarks were actually addressed to Rob E rather than yourself. ... J: Sorry, but I can't let this...
Hi Howard ... J: Regarding "I don't believe in visible objects existing on their own, though I do not KNOW there are none", if the knowledge is not there,...
I think its easy to fall into one of the two extremes - ie that there is No Self to be found anywhere and that the self does exist as an idependent entity. ...
Hi KenH and Tony, ... pt: What if the supposed right theoretical understanding is in fact attachment to certain ideas and then just repeated parroting of such...
Hello Tony, all, We need to take Buddha's teaching in context. He taught Anatta (An-Atta). He didn't teach no person (natthi puggalo or apuggalo) Atta = Atman,...
Hi Tony, ... absolute phenomena anywhere. All things are utterly irreducible to any sort of essence. See Heart Sutra. Emptiness is empty. even in the event of...
Hi KenH, ... pt: I am wondering on what basis can it be presumed that intellectual comprehension of certain "right" ideas (when it "clicks", when it makes...
Hi Rob E, ... Let me put it this way. It would be expected that anyone developing right understanding must also experience little by little, more kusala of...
Hi Pt, ... KH: I don't think it *can* be presumed. But perhaps I am not following you properly. ... attachment (or with aversion when there's no affinity with...
thanks Alex, I am finding it difficult to establish where Khun Sujin Boriharnwanakets stance is on this - is she with the Prasnangika Madhyamikas'? Or does she...
A: Now, can you meditate? :-) TH: Yes...is the simple answer. 'I' 'think' 'I' can meditate....therefore there IS an 'I' - albeit dependent related and...
Good friends all, especially Howard 1. Howard, trust all has returned to normal? 2. Extending "our situation"; I just heard on the telly program channel,...
Hello Tony, ... Sometimes she sounds more like Zen than Prasangika-Madhymaka. I don't know why you think she is P.M. If rupa is separate from the mind, then we...
Hello Tony, all, Some important things. Read in MN135 path to wisdom. "What is wholesome, venerable sir? What is unwholesome? What is blamable? What is...
