Hi, James, That reminds me of the Lent set by Buddha because of complaints about Bhikkus trek and travel all over the paddy fields damaging crops. Bhikkus...
Hi Kom and Sarah, ... can ... I agree. Of course, now I won't get on a tree menacing to jump down :), but sure dhamma is always able to surprise me ! Pablo...
Dear Friends, 'Cetasikas' by Nina van Gorkom http://www.vipassana.info/cetasikas.html http://www.zolag.co.uk/ Questions, comments and different views...
Hi Kom & Pablo, ... .... S: :) I'm not sure this loop-hole or exception should be advertised:). Do either of you have any comment or knowledge on whether the...
Dear Ken, Thank you very much for your patience and for your cetana. I read again the first part of your current post taking out my short replies, and adding...
Hi Eddie, I'm enjoying all your reflections on this and other threads:) ... <...> ... .... S: As I see it, the more acceptance we have of our daily lives...
Dear Nina, I must say to you the same thing that I had just said to Ken a few minutes ago: “Thank you very much for your patience and for your cetana.” ......
Dear Kom, ... ..... S: I thought the passage I quoted from the PTS Patimokkha intro was interesting on this point - the possible variations including the ...
Hi Icaro, ... <..> ... .... S: And there will be a time when the teachings can still be read or recited but no one understands the meaning at all: ... ...
Hi Cerini, ... <cerini_pablo@...> wrote: <snip> ... If you really want to ordain you might ask them for permission to ordain temporarily, like three or four...
Dear Kom (& all), ... <...> ... K:> In another school ... .... S: When you refer to the example of the ‘eye decomposed into 54 rupas’, I wonder what kind...
Hi Icaro, ... Hi, thank you for your suggestion. Now I' m slowly reading Nina's Cetasikas. When I finish it,I think I'll read Bikkhu Bodhi's translation of ...
Hi Sarah! The Peg was a very good reminder about the reality of emptiness!! ... Hmm, ... YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!! My eyes gleam with...
Hi Eddie! ... Exactly! Beyond yours and mine critical analysis, for sure! ... Do you feel irked with truth, Eddie ? I don´t need to be an arahant - a high...
Hi Pablo! ... The Abhidhamma Sangaha is an excelent compendium for anyone to understand the idea of Abhidhamma in Daily Life. Anurudha took the task of...
Hi James! ... James, wear the bhikkhu´s yellow robe is a HONOR only dispensed to a few ones with great merit. Laypeople are obliged to tread the path of ...
... +++++++ Dear Pablo, Amazing they inflict Kant and Hegel on school boys. Torture, really. Don't worry about the Dhammasangani: it is all about realities we ...
Hi James, ... My first name is Pablo ... Thanks for the suggestion,but they fear that I could be brainwashed by this strange sect of yellow-dressed people :) ...
Dear Sarah, ... you have any comment or knowledge on whether the ordination ... I personally couldn't see how it could be fitting one of the exceptions ...
Dear Sarah, ... the ... No, I don't know what the "standard" way is in Thailand, although I have heard of another temple who did the recital in brief even...
... N: We cannot find this in the Tipitaka that this is a necessary condition for satipatthaana. (See the many debates on dsg in Useful Posts). Many people...
Hi Icaro, ... -- ... laypeople ... -- ... to a ... of ... of ... LOL! Okay, whatever. I expected this response. Honestly, I think you have a few screws...
Hi Sharad (Nina and Sarah) - I remember one term that has been popular here among the DSG members: 'right understanding'. Following your humble suggestion, I...
Hi James! ... Honestly, I think ... A suspect shared by many people around the world...but not confirmed by documental register of confirmed facts!!!! So, my...
Dear Sarah, ... rupas', I ... it just ... Buddha or ... the ... You know Sarah, we have heard again and again that it is impossible to know certain things. I...
Dear Connie (and Joop) - Your reply to Joop was a short one, but its information content is very high -- i.e. it is hard for me to penetrate to the true...
Dear Han, thank you for your kind post and willingness to discuss further. Thank you for your offer sending the Mahasi book, but I do not need it. I am taken...
Hi Phil, ... N: Iriyapada: posture. It must be pidbang, hide. Iriyapada pidbang dukkha. See Vis. Ch XXI, 3, about shifting postures when there is pain. We have...
Dear Nina - ... frustrations, if we do not try to convince the other party. I remember that you wanted to convince me and tried in many posts, as you mentioned...
