Hi Rob, Thank you for your clarification of that post. Forgive my misinterpretation of the intended sarcasm. I too know that it often does not translate well...
Hi Ken H, ... way. ... take ... ===== Bhikku Bodhi's Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma (p136) says: Six kinds of objects fall into the category of mental...
Hello all As you know, I've been wondering about papanca, and have been reading the Useful Posts on the subject. I found this interesting letter from Rob K...
Hi Phil, ... I did not know that you were studying papanca. One or two books from my library have sections on papanca that might be of interest to you. Option...
Hi Phil, ... from ... you. ... Sorry Phil, option 1 will not work. The book that I have, "Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought" by Bhikkhu Nanananda...
Hi Phil, ... <rob.moult@j...> ... I found another papanca book that I read years ago titled, "Buddhist Psychology of Perception" by E.R. Sarachchandra (his PhD...
Hi Rob Thank you kindly. I will contact you off-list. A volume that you recommend and could lend a budding Abhidhamma devotee would be greatly appreciated...
Hi Rob Oops. Cross-posted yet again. Since we're in the same time zone I guess we're DSGing around the same time quite often. Well, not THAT interested in...
Hi, Ken (and Rob) - In a message dated 7/1/04 2:13:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Howard: I largely agree with your position on this, Ken. I believe that our...
Hi Phil, ... actually) ... it ... kusala, ... sense ... I ... reading ... about ... You are touching on a term called carita. The term "carita" is found in the...
Hi Howard (and Ken), ... that our ... with dhammas ... typically are ... that it is the ... Actually, as the ... and I ... associated with ... craving or ... ...
Hi, Rob (and Ken) - In a message dated 7/1/04 10:14:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Howard: Well, not everything is discussed everywhere. But even here I...
Dear friends. My name is Gislene. I am new in this list. I am brazilian, living in São Paulo and I am very very interested in learning and practice buddhism....
Hi Gislene! ... Welcome to the noblest company of Dhamma Students that never strode across the beautiful Northern Canada's woods ! My name is Ícaro and I am...
Hi Gislene, Welcome ot DSG. For more information on the Theravada tradition, I recommend the website Access to Insight Readings in Theravada Buddhism ...
Hi RobMoult!!! ... Cf. Visuddhimagga, chapter 3, just before the explanation about the Kasinas...I am reading again the Vism. and founding more and more ...
Hello Howard, Ken, and Rob, Just more words and ideas to spin about: ===== Howard:> I largely agree with your position on this, Ken. I believe ... *seems* ... ...
... conceptual ... All satire and absence of meanness duly noted and appreciated, thank you. I hope I can do as well – diplomacy is not always my strong ...
Hi Gislene, I think Icaro forgot me as well, maybe because Brazil doesn't change a change in Euro2004, and he knows it :-) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Herman ... From:...
That was meant to say 'doesn't stand a chance'. I wonder where my head was :-) Herman ... From: Herman Hofman [mailto:hhofman@...] Sent: Friday, 2 July...
Hi all, More than a month ago I posted couple messages on the representation of the dependent origination. However, I did not explain the representation in...
... [...] ... Hi Haward, Rob and others, wouldn't be possible that feeling is based only on rupa and conditions of its perception, but egoish reaction to this...
Hi, Agrios - In a message dated 7/1/04 10:26:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ============================ Feeling is based on contact, but often indirectly...
Howard: "When, for example, we *see* something that we find pleasant, what happens is that visual contact is followed by a mind-door contact with that same...
Hi all, Regarding feelings, here is a discourse in which the Buddha shows that there are one hundred and eight kinds of feelings: Samyutta Nikaya XXXVI.22 ...
Hi, Dhammapada 183: Not to do evil, to cultivate merit, to purify one's mind .... How to purify one's mind? How to eliminate greed,hatred and delusion? Aren't...
Hi Rob M, We were discussing whether citta and cetasika were included among ... Six kinds of objects fall into the category of mental object <. . . > citta in...
Hi Sarah, ... The short answer: Yes we can! :-) If you feel at all inclined, please bounce a yodel off one of the mountain faces for me (without starting an...
Hi Rob and everyone, You wrote: The Mulapariyaya Sutta (Mn 1) describes the differences in how the thoughts of an uninstructed worldling (that's us) progress,...
