Dear Friends, 'Cetasikas' by Nina van Gorkom http://www.vipassana.info/cetasikas.html http://www.zolag.co.uk/ Questions, comments and different views...
... (...(snip) ... ... It is ... do ... of the ... because ... anatta). Hallo Tep (and others), Thanks for your response. But it gives me another question. You...
Dear Friends, We've uploaded (or is it downloaded??)the re-edited recordings from India, October 2001, discussions with A.Sujin. They can be found on...
Hi Htoo, ... ... S: Thanks for letting us know. A few months sounds like a long time and I'll greatly look forward to your return. I think you've been making a...
Hi Dan, ... and politely, not many people can take this lack of gratification either.... "it's a long, long story...." , "...another situation?" Always good...
Hi Tep, Evan (and everyone), Thank you very much for your comments. I agree with you, and am inclining at more than 45 degrees towards Evan's interpretation...
Hi Herman, ... ... S: I'm not at all sure what you mean by 'concept formation'. Would you kindly explain. ... ... S: Hmmm.... I specially gave the quotes on...
Hi, Joop and Herman - Thank you both for your thoughtfulness. I also believe that the social aspect of the Dhamma is very important in Buddhism because no ...
Hi, Herman, Joop, Howard, All, Vis XI, 117: This bhikkhu who is devoted to the defining of the four elements immerses himself in voidness and eliminates the...
Hi all - On another list, someone made brief mention of the Malunkyaputta Sutta findable at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn35-095.html I...
Hi, Howard and all - Why is the Malunkyaputta sutta valuable? I am not not sure what you meant by the "non-occurring domain" and the "occurring domain". Could...
Hi, James, Howard, Evan, Herman - Thank you all for your unique and interesting thoughts on truths, arahant's knowledge, reality, no-mind, emptiness and...
Hi, Tep - In a message dated 6/1/05 3:46:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tepsastri@... writes: Hi, Howard and all - Why is the Malunkyaputta sutta valuable?...
Hi, Tep - I have time now, so I won't wait until tomorrow. I'll copy the sutta here and add my comments in context: Samyutta Nikaya XXXV.95 Malunkyaputta Sutta...
Hi Howard (and Connie), ... Wholeheartedly agreed. I always like abhidhamma (from the abhidhammapi.taka, I mean) best when connected to the discourses,...
"The Path of Purification" (Visuddhimagga) Ch. XIV 163. 'Delusion' has the characteristic of blindness, or it has the characteristic of unknowing. Its function...
Dear Friends, 'Cetasikas' by Nina van Gorkom http://www.vipassana.info/cetasikas.html http://www.zolag.co.uk/ Questions, comments and different views...
Friends: Brevity is Clarity: A deity once spoke this verse to the Blessed One: Life inevitably ceases, short is the span of life. No safe shelter exists for...
Hi Mike, Howard, Connie, Joop, Herman, Tep & all, I'd like to join in this useful thread too. Howard:> > Connie, as you know, I don't ascribe literal...
Hi Howard, ... ... S: Yes. Isn't the point of the 'one moment and one occasion ...for living the Brahmacariya' that there really only ever is this present...
Hi Howard ... Very good question(s), Howard. Yes, I think they are fully hidden. Normally, we are 'aware' of people and things, not specifically sights or...
Hi Tep ... A rare moment indeed! ... Just to be quite clear on it, 'resolute striving' and 'right effort' are references to the mental factor of effort that...
Hi Sarah, ... ===== This will be my last post for nearly two weeks, so I'm afraid I won't be able to clarify further if the need arises. There seems to be a...
Dear Sarah, Thank you very much for your quotes from Dispeller, this is now very clear. I am really grateful, I was thinking about it during our vacation. I...
Hi Andrew L, op 30-05-2005 22:46 schreef Andrew Levin op lone.renunciant@...: However I still envision myself as ... N: Very interesting. What good sila...
Hi Tep and Sarah, Good questions from Tep. I am glad Sarah answered them very clearly, I am just back. I can add something at one point only. I put one...
