Friends: The Way to Awareness: Original resources spoken by the Buddha: Majjhima Nikaya 10: Satipatthana Sutta: The Frames of Reference Digha Nikaya 22:...
Hi Larry, and all I'd like to take the liberty of starting a thread about what you raise below. (The other topic seems much more general) It's one of the...
Dear Tep, Hasituppada and all, A very important question about accumulations, it has a far reaching influence on how we see the practice, I think. First some...
Hi Phil, ... N: Lodewijk now says that this way of formulating is not correct. I could add: see my post about the world: it crumbles away. That gives the ...
Hello all, I was in a discussion with a Dhamma friend who said: 'As you all know the state of mind at the moment of death is critical in conditioning the next...
Hi Nina ... Nina > > No one can *do* that. There may be an idea of me, who can do something. ... already when ... sit down and ... do, ... citta with ... Ph:...
Hi Larry, ... N: It is hard to know whether the first type of mahaa-kusala citta arises which is unprompted, or the second type, which is prompted. Being...
"The Path of Purification" (Visuddhimagga) Ch. XIV, 156. Intro: The Visuddhimagga gives a summary of the eight mahaa-kusala cittas and deals with the sobhana...
Hi Nina ... gives the ... Ph: It's still an interesting point to think about. And the rest of the post I quoted from, in which Lodewijk says we have to be...
Hi Phil, ... N: That is it. Therefore I tried to explain to Tep about accumulations. It gives us more confidence in accumulating kusala and understanding, even...
... Dear Htoo, <snip> Htooo if you sincerely want me to explain in detail, then reply to this email seriously and in detail. If you make oblique comments or ...
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... <kenhowardau@y...> wrote: Hi Tep, <snip> The Buddha taught Abhidhamma, and so the people who heard the suttas understood that the concept of walking could...
Dear Htoo, Thanks for you postive reponse. I go little by little and ask for you comment on every point in each post. 1. Many Buddhist who join dsg cite modern...
Hi, Christine - In a message dated 5/1/05 5:34:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ======================= Here's an opinion - only my opinion, and not Dhamma:...
Thanks Philip, You are right, I was thinking of the Mahayana paramis. What are the 10 Theravada paramis and do they have the same significance? CharlesD ... ...
Hi Lisa and Htoo - I truly enjoyed reading your posts. One very important key idea in the dialogue between you two (messages # 44977 and #44983) is that sanna...
Hi Charles ... the > 10 Theravada paramis and do they have the same significance? Let me write down a few things from Nina's "Perfections Leading to ...
Dear Sukin ( and all interested members of DSG ), First I intended to reply the final part of your post about 'sutta'. But now I take time to have effective...
Rob K discussion part 1. Dear Htoo, Thanks for you postive reponse. I go little by little and ask for you comment on every point in each post. ... Htoo: :-) Do...
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Dear Nina - Could you please describe or define precisely what "accumulations" means and how anusaya accumulation operates, according to the Abhidhamma? What...
... <htootintnaing@y...> wrote: . ... artilce ... Dear Htoo, here is the post http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dhammastudygroup/message/43650 I think it is not so...
Hi Htoo, KenH, and Sukinder - I thought I did not have to explain why walking meditation was important, or explain about the object of walking meditation. But...
Hi Chris, Howard and Htoo - It was a very thoughtful and interesting question, Chris. Howard's observation is very true - without sedation the dying patient ...
Hi Christine, It all depends on kamma, and we never know. Kamma conditions the last moments and the rebirth. Even when being sedated, we do not have to worry,...
Dear KenH- Please read my old message about Abhidhamma and Sutta Pitaka ... Dear Nina - ... to think ... reading, ... sets ... T: Thank you so much for...
Hi, Tep (and Chris and Htoo) - In a message dated 5/1/05 2:20:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ==================== It would be a great blessing to master the...
... one ... almost never the ... advanced ... rest of ... lack of ... mindstream ... condition for an ... Hi Howard (and All), Nice to see you back. Hope you...
