Hi Howard (and Jon, Alex), - I appreciate yours and Alex's effort to keep sending the same Sutta message (as summarized below) over and over to our good friend...
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Alex
truth_aerator
Aug 1, 2008 8:10 pm
Hi Tep, Jon and all, ... If one doesn't enage in N8P as much as possible, then there will never be accumulations! As I understand suttas such as anusota, is...
88604
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Aug 1, 2008 7:13 pm
Part 1. Sutta:Proficiency as to offences and restoration from them. Aapattikusalataa ca aapattivu.t.thaanakusalataa ca. ... Co: There are five or seven groups...
88603
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Aug 1, 2008 7:12 pm
Hi, Tep (and Jon) - In a message dated 8/1/2008 2:49:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tepsastri@... writes, quite excellently and to much the point, IMO: ...
88602
Tep
dhammanusarin
Aug 1, 2008 7:05 pm
Hi, Jon and All - The following paragraph is taken from The Path of Discrimination, Treatise I -- just for refreshing your mind. Ptsm, I, 568. Knowledge in one...
88601
Tep
dhammanusarin
Aug 1, 2008 6:49 pm
Hi Jon and all, - I hope this discussion is fruitful. If it is, then it will be one more of the few occasions that ever happened to me here. ... in order for...
88600
Dieter Möller
moellerdieter
Aug 1, 2008 5:49 pm
Dear Venerable Pannabahulo, thanks for the frank sharing of your feelings and considerations, hopefully you will get some useful feedbacks . I wonder how far...
88599
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Aug 1, 2008 5:46 pm
Hi, Alex (and Jon) - In a message dated 8/1/2008 12:42:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, truth_aerator@... writes: Of course I believe than neither...
88598
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Aug 1, 2008 5:43 pm
Hi, Tep (and Herman) - In a message dated 8/1/2008 12:23:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tepsastri@... writes: Hi, Herman and Howard, - ... separate. ......
88597
Alex
truth_aerator
Aug 1, 2008 4:47 pm
Hi Jon, ... The mind must get rid of 5 hindrances for sufficiently long time prior to becoming a stream enterer. If you can do it without Jhana, good for you....
88596
Alex
truth_aerator
Aug 1, 2008 4:41 pm
Dear Jon and all, ... A priest may say: "Hear and reflect on the Bible, the true teaching!" ... True but there are other things involved. ... The opening of...
88595
Tep
dhammanusarin
Aug 1, 2008 4:23 pm
Hi, Herman and Howard, - ... separate. ... And whatever arises in dependence on eye-contact ��" experienced either as pleasure, as pain, or as...
88594
Scott Duncan
scottduncan2
Aug 1, 2008 3:42 pm
Dear All, Continuing from #88262: CSCD aapattikusalataa ca aapattivu.t.thaanakusalataa ca. Walshe DN 33.1.9(8) Skill in [knowing] offences and [the procedures...
88593
mlnease
m_nease
Aug 1, 2008 2:27 pm
Couldn't agree more! mike...
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Herman Hofman
egberdina
Aug 1, 2008 12:34 pm
Hi Tep, ... I honestly have no clue, Tep. It is not one of Maha Kaccana's suttas, is it ? :-) Cheers Herman...
88591
rjkjp1
Aug 1, 2008 12:34 pm
In complete disregard for the rules of the forum(avoid "me too" posts ), I just want to say how much I enjoy the series of recent posts by Jon. Succint but...
88590
upasaka@...
upasaka_howard
Aug 1, 2008 12:07 pm
Hi, Jon - In a message dated 8/1/2008 5:30:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jonabbott@... writes: Is this the Avarana Sutta quoted at the end of your...
88589
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 10:33 am
Hi Herman ... No imprecision in "sabbe". But it's the "sankhara"; and "dhamma" part of the expression that I've been alluding to. ... limited ... self ... The...
88588
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 10:31 am
Hi Herman ... You're welcome to assume that for myself, but I can't speak for the others ;-)) ... A person who still has the accumulated tendency for wrong...
88587
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:41 am
Hi Herman ... Yes, I'm familiar with the word, of course. My uncertainty is as to its precise meaning in the context of your statement that "a pattern ...
88586
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:39 am
Hi Herman ... Only if rise and fall has been directly experienced by developed panna can it be confirmed. Until then it is just another of the many things...
88585
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:38 am
Hi Herman ... panna? ... I see no "infinite regression" in the scenario of one moment of consciousness being the object of a succeeding moment of ...
88584
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:36 am
Hi KenH ... bridge ... Yes, I remember the reference to a bridge (which Phil agreed with, I think), but must confess I wasn't able to follow the point being...
88583
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:35 am
Hi Alex ... of ... I agree with what you say here, but I'm afraid I don't see the relevance of it to our discussion. ... It is not in dispute that there are...
88582
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:33 am
Hi Alex ... Buddha ... There is no dispute (and never has been) as to the fact that most of the great disciples (and many other disciples also) attained ...
88581
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:32 am
Hi Alex ... sufficient. ... If we want to stick to the words of the sutta, then the factor in question is not *the activity of reading/considering the texts*,...
88580
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:31 am
Hi Tep ... doing ... The position as I understand it is that right view must arise in order for there to be insight. And the main conditions for right view to...
88579
jonoabb
Aug 1, 2008 9:30 am
Hi Howard Thanks for your comments. ... Gosh, I ... The question we are discussing is whether that wanting/desire is kusala or akusala. If it's akusala then...
88578
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Aug 1, 2008 8:48 am
Dear friends, Abstaining from wrong speech is a form of síla. We understand this in theory, but do we remember it in our daily life, when we are about to say...
88577
Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
Aug 1, 2008 8:44 am
Venerable Yanatharo, I really sympathize with your situation and I hope the pain is bearable with the medication you take. I find it very brave that you still...
