Hi Robert E (97459) ... Just trying to give you something useful to occupy yourself with during your insomnia ;-)) ... And me too ... ... Without wanting to...
Hi Rob Ep (& Scott), part 2 [referring to the quote Scott gave on pa~n~naa and vitakka cetasikas..] ... .... ... ... S: There have to be countless cittas (over...
Hi Robert E (97459) ... Actually, this is also available on-line for downloading (although a printed copy is much easier to read and refer to, I find): ...
Hi Rob Ep (& Scott), (Actually, my birthday, so a few tel. and other interruptions this end on a really beautiful sunny day and holiday here.....;-)) part 3 ...
Hi again Robert E ... Below are some more passages on this subject, courtesy of posts by Han (from CMA) and Sarah (Atthasalini). Jon CMA "The cetasikas are...
Hi Sarah, happy birthday, ... Can't give you a textual reference straight away. I think that, were it more than one single kamma conditioning the arising &...
Hi Chris ... The term "fixed views" here seems to be a translation of the Pali "ditthi" and so refers to wrong view. In the commentary to this stanza...
Hi, Ken - In a message dated 4/30/2009 6:24:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kenhowardau@... writes: Hi Howard, I'm not very interested in concepts or...
Hi, James - In a message dated 5/1/2009 8:26:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, buddhatrue@... writes: Hi Howard, ... Okay, now I totally believe that one;...
dear hoping to read the Visuddhimagga, If you read English &/or Chinese, you might want to take a look at thepathofpurification.blogspot.com -- just below the...
hallo Bhante, Howard and others, As you suggest, dry intellectualism is pointless and just leads to the same. Unless there is deep knowledge of presently...
hallo Lukas, Nice comment and I want to add that we are also very attached to the inner world of 'me, mine and myself'. I think its true to say that the...
Hi Howard, I would like to make clear that I was not recommending the Parallel Universe theory or the Big Bang theory as ways of explaining the Dhamma. Without...
Friends: What is Right Understanding of the 3 Facts! The Blessed Buddha once said: It is impossible, Bhikkhu and Friends, and cannot ever happen, that one...
... The Buddhas range cannot be imagined! They 'are' - not of this world - They 'are' beyond that... Out of range so to speak! Immeasurable... Samahita ;-)...
... Not so, friends! Bodhisattas are generated any time one qualified male makes the bodhisatta wish in front of a Sammasambuddha. So Bodhisattas are generated...
Dear Azita ... L: In Visuhimagga there was said: "Inner jungle, outer jungle, people are entangled in the jungle, And so I ask [the] Gotama, who could clear...
Dear Scott & all, part 1 As usual, you raise many good and deep issues... ... ... S: Yes, this is a good description of what is conventionally meant as 'a...
Dear Scott (Connie, Alberto, Lukas, Ken H & all), part 2 ... .... S: I take 'thinking' in the above to be referring to samma sankappa, right thinking (vitakka...
Dear Sarah an friends ... L: There are cittas which experience concepts almost all the time. But we tend to take it for ourselves, for our thinking. There is...
... Hello Jon, Thank you for your response. Here is the Pali from the particular verse in the Metta sutta: 152. Diṭṭhiñca anupagamma sīlavā dassanena...
Hi Sarah, ... <. . .> S: > Well put - yes, we shouldn't wonder that the Dhamma is deep and subtle... ... "Knowable only to the wise" is one way the suttas...
Hi Ken. ... Rob E. wrote: ... Well, tenacity isn't a "reality," it is a concept used to describe a succession of events. To take human conceptualizations of...
Hi Sarah. ... Thank you, that is helpful; though I am still wanting an understanding of how the "beating" function takes place in time - whether its findings...
Hi Jon. ... This is a good piece of information, thanks. ... I suppose. But if you want to know how things work, you need to have a view of the mechanism, do...
