Hi Sarah. ... Well....It seems to me that the wise writers of these commentaries would not use so many similes with a consistent sort of action implied if it...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 4:53 am
Hi Jon. ... Well thank you very much! This looks like it will be a good work for me to go through. Of course I will have to recall how to read, and then...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 5:02 am
Hi Sarah. ... Happy Birthday, how nice! ... Hmn....well I am happy to hear about the javana cittas working in groups of 7 and accumulating understanding, as...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu.sama...
May 3, 2009 5:16 am
Friends: The <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anussati.htm> 10 <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anussati.htm> Contemplations is...
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kenhowardau
May 3, 2009 8:46 am
Hi Robert E, ... <. . .> RE: > Well, tenacity isn't a "reality," it is a concept used to describe a succession of events. To take human conceptualizations of...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
May 3, 2009 9:29 am
Dear Friends, I'd like to also requote a couple of passages from my earlier messages: S: >Universal Buddhas only arise in the human realm and only one in each...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
May 3, 2009 9:34 am
Dear Friends, S:> A few more details on the conditions for becoming a Bodhisatta and the reasons for time, place and family for the birth of the future Buddha:...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
May 3, 2009 9:45 am
Dear Chew & Nina, ... <...>>Itaresaṃ cittassa uppÄdakkhaṇe tesaṃ cittaṃ ... arising of consciousness for them citta arises, does not cease, but will...
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jonoabb
May 3, 2009 12:06 pm
Hi Chris (97699) ... Here is some more from the commentary to this stanza: <<< And now, since lovingkindness is near to [wrong] view of self because it has...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
May 3, 2009 12:11 pm
Dear Lukas, ... There are cittas which experience concepts almost all the time. But we tend to take it for ourselves, for our thinking. There is moha and...
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Scott
scottduncan2
May 3, 2009 1:18 pm
Dear Sarah, Regarding: S: "Yes, as it seems. In fact what is experienced by those cittas through the mind-door is a momentarily experienced concept." Scott:...
Dear Sarah ... L: Any dhamma can be an object for understanding. ... L: Yes. There are just few moments in life, when we are not forgetful of realities. Panna...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 3:38 pm
Hi Jon. ... I don't see any problem with consciousness being assisted in performing cognitive functions by various operational factors associated with acts of...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 8:19 pm
Hi Ken. ... I'll try to be more expressive in the future. ... Yah; because 'you say so,' or someone else does. [Not the Buddha however, who never made any...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 8:24 pm
Hi Jon. ... What would be the purpose of describing all these details if those so described had already attained these skills, if it is just description -...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 3, 2009 8:26 pm
Hi Jon. ... Thank you, I will take a look. Best, Robert E. = = = = = = = =...
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Robert Epstein
epsteinrob
May 4, 2009 3:14 am
... Yes, I believe that Buddha said "form is not 'self,'" rather than "form is 'not-self.'" Anatta is not a thing, it is the absence of self. Best, Robert E. ...
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Scott
scottduncan2
May 5, 2009 1:33 am
Dear Sarah, Regarding: S: "I take 'thinking' in the above to be referring to samma sankappa, right thinking (vitakka cetasika) of the eightfold path...the...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:15 am
Hi Azita (and apologies for the delay in replying) (97473) ... Just guessing, but I'd say this refers to conditioned nature, namely that what arises by...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:20 am
Hi Robert E (97534) ... Conventionally speaking, of course, that would be so. But in terms of moment-to-moment dhammas, there may be kusala (or akusala)...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:29 am
Hi Robert E (97581) ... Indeed, is there anything of any greater importance, would you say? Jon...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:30 am
Hi Connie (97687) ... Thanks for bringing to my (and others') attention this copy of Nanamoli's translation of the Vism for downloading (scanned pdf file,...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:53 am
Hi Robert E (97703) ... And please give some thought to the implications of it. ... I would describe intellectual understanding/pariyatti as being an...
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jonoabb
May 5, 2009 3:57 am
Hi Robert E (97705) ... If as a result of reading and considering there is more understanding (at whatever level), then there has been "practice";. It can...
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Bhikkhu Samahita
bhikkhu.sama...
May 5, 2009 6:01 am
Friends: The Ten Contemplations is Daily Buddhist Routine! The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation, which when often ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 5, 2009 8:27 am
Dear friends, Chapter 8. Tokyo, June 15, 1971 Dear Mr. G, You found it difficult to be aware while doing complicated things. I will quote from your letter: ...
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Nina van Gorkom
nilovg
May 5, 2009 8:29 am
Dear Mike, James, friends, Please can someone help me and tell me the date of Vesak this month? I remember Mike made a lunar calendar. Is he reading this? ...
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sarah abbott
sarahprocter...
May 5, 2009 9:31 am
Hi Ken H, ... -- "Knowable only to the wise" is one way the suttas describe it, isn't it? And even when does it becomes know to the wise, it still remains deep...
