Hi Swee Boon & all, We were discussing the ayatanas here... I remember Jon replied, but I'd ... .... S: I would like to stress that the ayatanas are referring...
Hi Matheesha & all, You posted this while we were away, but I read the other good replies. I ... .... S: As I understand, there is nothing inherently akusala...
Hi Matheesha & all, (On the Susima Sutta) ... <...> ... .... S: Lots more on this one under 'Susima Sutta' in U.P. too, just in case you didn't see the...
Dear Friends, 'Cetasikas' by Nina van Gorkom http://www.vipassana.info/cetasikas.html http://www.zolag.co.uk/ Questions, comments and different views...
Dear Jon, ... object, ... Experience is anubhava, while the function of citta is cetana - consciousness, understanding, awareness, intelligence, wisdom. If we ...
Dear Han (& James), ... .... S: Yes, I noticed this. It's interesting.... I just tried to find it in another translation, but was unsuccessful. If anyone has...
Hi Jon ... it ... expectations ... Yes, tat's true. But there are countless suttas in which one is encouraged to - among other similes - stamp out akusala ...
Hi again Jon Usually I don't worry about my typos but below there is one that screws up the meaning ... that ... the ... When I say "akusala situations" I...
Dear Sarah (and James), ... Venerable Naagasena answered another thing. ... tried to find it in another translation, but was unsuccessful. If anyone has the...
Dear Scott, Michael Kalyaano, Nina, Sarah, Mike N, Robert K, Jon How are you? Scott wrote: "I would be interested, for the instruction in Pali, to know where ...
Dear Howard, Christine and Group, ... A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream./...
Hi Charles D, ... ... I think it's a good idea to try and understand terms and definitions about realities in one's own words as you do. However, what you...
Hi Ken H, ... All right you win, Ken H. The statement "A self does not exist." presupposes a self. The statement "There is no self." doesn't presuppose a self....
Hi all - This is a practical question. Our basement has been "occupied" ;-) by a growing number of cave crickets. They are truly ugly insects (LOL!), ...
Hi, Phil - This post of yours has me smiling broadly, Phil. I'm so pleased that you are getting what I consider to be a balanced perspective on the Buddha's ...
Hi, Antony (and Chris & all) - In a message dated 11/1/06 7:39:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... ========================= Well, the commonsense idea that "We...
Dear Han, it may be a matter of translation of yoniso: this can be translated as right. Thus, right or proper attention. This refers to kusala without pa~n~naa...
Hi Howard, this is a dhamma topic. It helps to see such matters as kamma and vipaaka, also worldly matters. You told us, when speaking about someone's loss of...
Dear Nina, Thank you very much for your kind explanation. What I have pointed out was that the king asked the difference between yoniso manasikaara and...
Hi Howard Thanks for your encouragement. I think it is the "harmful to others" aspect of MN 19 that really triggered this. Nothing new to me, but it had been a...
Hi Nina and Howard, ... other ... from ... of ... can, ... Nina, I really find this post of yours preposterous and superstitious. Especially when you write,...
Hi all I just mentionned Acharn Sujin's "Deeds of Merit" to Howard. If the moderators don't mind, I think I will repost, and add comments to the ones I wrote...
Hi again Thinking some more about this. ... as ... This doesn't sound like the sort of thing Acharn Sujin would say in the recorded talks - there is usually a...
Hi Phil, ... it ... to "panna" ... Glad you appreciated it. I have addressed the subject of "panna" before in this group; in several posts as a matter of fact....
Dear Swee Boon, Not to be provocative, just in compliance with: SB: "As per defined by the Buddha in the suttas." As in, for instance: "It is impossible, O...
Hi, Phil - In a message dated 11/1/06 6:55:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... ========================= I'm sure also that she is a good person who values sila....
dear sick at heart, asubha everywhere. dukkha. all that en-tales. << the excellence assoc'd w/the cakkavatti, disregarding (same) w/out even deeming it straw,...
too drunk too rmembr, here's our fifth, to be 'shared equally between lay followers and novices as invariable virtuous practices': << I undertake the training...
