Dear Scott & all, Also, another late reply to some good quotes and comments in a discussion ... ..... S: All sounds good to me. The 2 or 3 phala cittas...
Dear Sarah, As I said yesterday: your responses are really valuable for me. S: " Btw, I think Howard added some good comments to James's apt sutta quote on the...
Hi Howard, I hope your arm improves, better do exercises quietly by yourself. These therapists want a result too soon (like us developing insight!). So much...
Visuddhimagga Ch XVII, 129. Intro: In section 128 the Visuddhimagga dealt with the vipaakacittas which are receiving-consciousness, one being kusala vipaaka...
Hi Phil, ... Ph: Another thing that Acharn Sujin said that I really like is "we place too much importance on the feelings that have already fallen away than on...
Hi James, thanks for answering. To me it does not matter that we discussed these things over and over. ... j: When it comes to Right Effort, I am looking at...
Dear Mike, Thanks for the response: M: "Ultimately there is, of course, only one goal as I understand it." I like the Dhammapada here: "If by renouncing a...
Hi Herman, H: "Given the momentary nature of nama, and that nama is not the object it experiences, on what basis can anything be said about the im/permanence...
HI Nina ... about it. OK, that sounds reasonable. "Beginning to understand the present reality." In one talk I heard Jon say "understand realities or ...
Friends, XI -- {Another} Muttaa *99, daughter and wife of Kosalan brahmins Muttaa, heaping up good under former Buddhas, was, in this Buddha-dispensation, born...
Hi, Sarah - In a message dated 2/1/07 2:40:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... ===================== Sorry for what you guys have been going through! Is Jon...
Hi, Andrew - In a message dated 2/1/07 2:54:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... ======================== I haven't heard the claim that not-self depends on (the...
James: ... I will just make a quick response and then shut up (I'm sure Connie will be very pleased ;-)). Connie: You never know. A message to his sister (on...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 2/1/07 5:36:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Howard: Yes, I completely agree. That is what I'm doing ... very carefully. ... ...
hi sarah, < ... > sarah: So far in the accounts of our Therii (Sisters), all of whom have become arahants, to date I see no evidence of those so far discussed ...
Dear friends, There are several stages of insight-wisdom. First, doubt about the difference between nåma and rúpa is eliminated. It may be understood in...
Dear friends, The perfection of wisdom must be developed from life to life. We know that we should realize the difference between paramattha dhammas, namely,...
Hi Phil, yes, the near enemy. We may consider this: what is better, to develop more understanding or accumulate more ignorance. I think we have already...
Hi, all - On another list, I replied to a poster who had a rather typical atta view but wanted to understand the Buddhist anatta view and how it is compatible ...
Dear Connie, James, There is no provocation in discussions. When someone like James has another opinion, I find it challenging, it is an occasion for ...
Hi Howard, You answered very well. I am glad you brought him to this moment now, with the words: Nothing survives even right now, during this very life. We...
Dear Connie, thank you very much. This always impresses me: heaping up good under former Buddhas,.. Or: age-enduring, for aeons. It shows how long it takes to...
Hi again, all - The first line of my reported post seems to have been partly cut off. What it should have been was the following: <A question to the effect...
Hi Phil, But in order to understand what rupa is, being quite different from nama, one also has to be mindful of the nama that appears. Unavoidable. It is like...
In a message dated 2/1/07 2:54:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, upasaka@... ... /Thus is how ye shall see all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in...
Hi, all - One more time! In a message dated 2/1/07 2:54:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, upasaka@... ... ========================== The material between corner...
Hi KenH ... You have my sincere sympathy re your computer. I hate the bloody things. With regards to "no control", there are two ways of looking at this. There...
Hi Phil, Thanks for all your posts. ... I agree with you. But I wonder, seriously, why we bother busying ourselves with rare theoretical states that we...
Hi Sarah, ... Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. You don't know much about men, do you? Any man will tell you that there is no such thing as v minor surgery, when it applies...
Hi Scott, Thanks yet again for your efforts. ... I certainly do. If I might, could we possibly steer the discussion towards the Suttanta perspective? Which I...
