Hi I think I've seen something like that: "Wherever the Arhats dwells in a village or in a forest, in a valley or on a hill, that spot is a place of delight...
Hi Daniel, ... such a person ... least "I ... envy! ". ... kusala and ... The first and perhaps the hardest - stop the splitting of your self into purely good...
Hi, TG (and Ken O) - In a message dated 9/1/06 2:24:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, TGrand458@... ... ========================= TG, in my opinion this is...
Dear Plamen, Thanks you for your well-crafted reply. P: "Hence the svabhAva of svabhAva in the Buddhist discourse should logically not be a universal property...
Hi Leo, I think that not the place itself is praised, but the person who has eradicated all defilements. The purity is not in the place but in the citta of...
Hi Daniel, your point is worth considering. The Buddha emphasized understanding, understanding kusala and akusala. Matheesha and Larry gave you already some...
Dear friends, The ahetuka kiriyacitta which is classified as mano-dvåråvajjana- citta can perform two functions: in the mind-door process it performs the...
Dear friends, When I was on my journey through Indonesia with the princess and prince of the Netherlands, I did not like being overlooked, being unimportant....
Friends: ... Yet this is actually not quite exactly so: One can indeed say: 'Harsh Speech is (generally) Disadvantageous' That is a conventionally correct...
Dear Ven.Samahita! Your daily Life examples are brightly coloured, indeed...but THE FACT is Harsh Speech goes against the Noble Path, namely the issue called...
Hi Nina ... only ... What do you mean this is your "personal idea" about this citta? I think there is a tendency for people to express personal ideas ...
Friends: How is Release by Infinite Pity Achieved? The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity (karuna) achieved?...
Hi Howard Continuing with my reply to this post of yours. ... I agree with this. What I was trying to draw attention to was the particular emphasis you seem...
Hi Kel Thanks for the quotes from the Vsm. Unfortunately I'm not sure I understand the comments you make about them. So let me just summarise where the...
Hi again Nina ... Should have said parable, of course. Found it, from the Atthasalini, quoted on p.111 of Survey of Paramattha Dhammas. "A certain king went to...
Hi James ... Whoa James! Did I really refer to my post as being "against jhana"? I don't think so, because I have never spoken against jhana. It's true I...
Hi James ... You think that the distinction between true metta and something that seems like metta but isn't can best be known when doing metta meditation...
Hi Mateesha ... Thanks for coming in on this thread, and for the sutta quote. Would you mind saying a few words about the relevance of the quote? As I see...
Hi, Jon - In a message dated 9/2/06 6:07:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Howard: I favor all of them, Jon. I'm a groupie for the whole band! ;-) If I ...
... ..... Hallo Plamen I'm afraid we disagree but maybe I don't understand you well. P: " if one takes phenomenology to be a positivist description of what...
... plus ... ideas ... consciousness. ... Hallo Nina, Plamen One can also say: dhammadhÄtu is a poor translation of idea. Isn't it better to say that 'idea'...
Dear Joop, If dharmas are the object of manas, then they should probably be considered both saMvRtti-sat (empirical) and paramArtha-sat (metaphysical)....
Dear Joop, ... I am afraid you do. There are two kinds of phenomenology. One is the positivist and "critical" one which is close to the Kantian agnosticism as...
Hi Howard, to which texts are you specifically referring? And why? I ask this because it seems that some people think that he is downplaying this subject. ...
Hallo Joop, By the word idea is usually meant what can only be experienced through the mind-door. In a mind-door process of cittas nama, rupa and concepts can...
Dear friends, Just now I had a conversation with my husband about the above subject. He heard of colleagues who had received honours which he had not received...
Dear friends, Thus, of the eighteen ahetuka cittas, fifteen are ahetuka vipåkacittas and three are ahetuka kiriyacittas. The three ahetuka kiriyacittas are: ...
Dear Plamen! ... Only a remark: The word coined up by Heidegger - a good aproximation for "Tathata" - is "Dasein" and not "Sosein". Dasein is the own "as that...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 9/2/06 10:07:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... ===================== I'm speaking about the Vism, which some people have actually...
