Dear Walter and Han, Your dialogue is very good and I appreciate it that Han emphasizes so much the impersonality of kamma and vipaaka, no guilt and...
Dear Han, ... N: Va.n.na has several meanings, PTS: colour, appearance, splendour, praise. This passage comes after the Sutta in the Anguttara Nikaya, and here...
Hi Howard, Alex, Larry. Op 1-mrt-2008, om 2:13 heeft upasaka@... het volgende geschreven: I ALSO believe that only one doorway at a time is operative. I...
Hi Tep, It is clear on the Thai web what section you refer to. The numbers are different in my English edition: 984-987. ... N: There are in the text...
Dear Nina and Walter, I thank you very much, Nina, for your comments, which I hope will be useful for Walter. [It definitely is useful for me.] Dear Walter,...
Hi, Tep (and Ken) - In a message dated 2/29/2008 11:02:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tepsastri@... writes: KH: 1. .. "the very idea that the Buddha...
Thank you, Han and Nina for your helpful responses. I'll read the the two articles you kindly linked and report back. In particular I hope to see whether I...
Hi Howard (and Ken H, Alex, James), - First of all, let me thank you for the following caution which shows a careful contemplation on your part. ... they are...
Hi Howard, ... N: Originally you said <I just don't see why it would matter if it were otherwise.> My answer is: it does matter, because if it were otherwise...
Dear friends, Chapter 3. The Best of Sights. The Sutta selected for our sutta reading and discussion in the Foundation building was the Bhaddaji Sutta Gradual...
Hi Scott (Nina and all), - Your reply is a good-but-biased description of what you call "Abhidhamma in the suttas". You wrote, "I think that this refers to...
Dear Nina, - I appreciate your excellent answers that open another door to more understanding. ... included. T: In the aruupa jhaana where there is neither...
Hi, Tep (and Nina) - In a message dated 3/1/2008 11:54:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, tepsastri@... writes: T: Thank you. That is clear now; vipaka is...
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Hi All The Buddha said -- "When by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms...sounds...odors...flavors...tangibles...of...
Hi Howard, - I hope the question wasn't too easy for you. ... intention. ... T: This Beginner's Abhidhamma corner is your corner too ! So please feel free to...
Dear Tep and KenH, ... support your point that khandhas are NOT real. I will show you that they are real -just read on. ... and existence of the dhammas, since...
Dear Nina, - Thank you for the sutta review. The venerable Ånanda said : When, while one rejoices, the cankers are destroyed- that is the best of joys. ...
Dear Alex (and Ken H), - I hope you do not think of the following response as arguments of a debate. It should be thought of as a Dhamma discussion. ... T:...
... I think that if we look at the paragraph before the one that started this discussion, Alex's point about the truth of the Buddha's teachings around ...
Dear Nina, Thank you for your replies. ... reality appearing now, at the present moment. When hardness appears it can be known as a rupa-element, and then no...
Hi Howard, ... N: Second Book of the Abhidhamma, Book of Analysis, Analysis of Knowledge, 762, 763: <'Have different bases, have different objects' means: the...
Hi Raymond (Alex), - ... Just a reminder of the initial quote..... ... impermanent, suffering, and subject to change: this the wise in the world agree upon as...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 3/1/2008 2:52:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: Hi Howard, ... N: Second Book of the Abhidhamma, Book of...
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Hi Alex, Rhendrickson, Howard, All, In a message dated 3/1/2008 12:30:39 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, rhendrickson1@... writes: I think that if we...
Hi, NEW TG ;-), and Alex & Ray (it IS Ray, right?) - In a message dated 3/1/2008 4:39:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, TGrand458@... writes: NEW TG: I...
