... This is so true. The need to see our own attachments and wrong view. In a way, this is what the game is all about. And I think, going back to an earlier...
Hello Howard, Herman, KenO, all, As I was analysing the khandha/ayatana/dhatu chart and conditionality, something became more apparent to me. The "clean"...
Friends: Adopting a particular View, Generates a particular Future! The Buddha <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> often emphasized that...
Dear all Q. : The practice should be steadfast, not agitated, as you just said. Therefore, is it possible to use the method of satipaììhna of breathing...
Dear Nina, Sarah and all, Just a quick question: In his “A Manual of Abhidhamma” Narada Thero writes, “Conceit does not arise in lobha consciousness,...
Dear friends, Abstaining from slandering, rude speech and idle talk are not among the five precepts for laypeople. Abstaining from them, however, is kusala...
dear friends, 1. For those who can use it, there's now a single 68MB IZarc zip of the first 100,000 dsg posts (~1000/file) to download. 2. If you can run...
Hello Chuck, all, In certain suttas the Buddha has made an outline of the teaching that (eventually) make one to be the highest. I also believe that heart and...
Dear Nina, all, According to CMA, Cetana & Manasikaro exists in every citta. In a process of seeing, exactly where is Cetana&Manasikaro aimed at? At a visual...
Friends: Harming others will Hurt yourself! Therefore did the Buddha <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> point out Harmlessness as the...
Good friends all, [Excerpt] "In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who won't listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata...
Dear friends, We read in the Book of Discipline (Vinaya IV, Mah-vagga VI, on Medicines, 237) that the general Sha attained enlightenment after having...
Friends: Behaviour determines the State of all Beings! The young brahmins V <http://What-Buddha-Said.nhttp:/What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/va/vaasett ...
Hello all Are the 10 Paramis or Perfections clearly mentioned in the Suttas ... particularly where the Bodhisatta labouriously cultivated them over many...
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...
Hi Group, Not surprising that nobody picked up on my tiny little cognition that an "end" is nothing more than a "begining";. Nobody played on it! Did "nobody"...
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,...
Hi again, Nina - In a message dated 12/17/2009 4:37:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... Nah! These are arahants, and they are namarupic flows that have a ...
Hi, Nina & Chuck - In a message dated 12/18/2009 6:42:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: Dear Chuck, ... N: You misunderstood me, when...
Dear all There is one other class of objects, namely dhammrammaa (mental object). This class of objects can only be experienced through the mind-door....
Dear all Q. : When I receive a Dhamma book about the practice in daily life I read it many times, because I want to be able to practise. However, all the time...
Dear friends, Not only generosity, but also good moral conduct is a way of wholesomeness. This is the second of the threefold classification of wholesomeness....
Friends: Life is short, difficult, unknown and surely Lethal! The Blessed Buddha <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> once pointed out: The...
Dear all Q. : Everything you have explained is very beneficial for me at this moment. But, although I have some understanding of what I heard, my understanding...
Dear friends, There are several more aspects of generosity. Abstaining from killing, lying and other evil deeds can be seen as an aspect of generosity. In...
Friends: Gentleness and Self-Control Balances the Mind! The wanderer Sabhiya <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/sabhiya.htm> once asked the Blessed...
