Hi TG, thank you for your useful remarks. ... TG: We can learn that in the ultimate sense there is not a hard thing, and there is no body. There is just the...
Hi Howard, ... So, Nina, what you believe to be the case is fact, and the quarks and so on of the physicists are not? I don't know how you know that. To me it ...
Hi, Connie - In a message dated 3/1/07 12:14:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... ====================== Lots of humans heading for warrens or for hell, Connie!...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 3/1/07 6:10:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Howard: I have confidence in it as well, in part due to my experience, but mostly...
Dear Nina, Thanks for your reply. I'll just add some from the 2001-10-27-b, clarifying what we are discussing: Kh. Sujin: "... because its so short and we do...
Dear Friends, Bhaddaa of the Kaapilaas, part two of four: Tena vutta.m apadaane (apa. therii 2.3.244-313)- "Padumuttaro naama jino, sabbadhammaana paaraguu; ...
Hi All I have received the following message from lurking member Tom W: **************************** We have a little study group here in New Hampshire and the...
Hi, Howard, I hope the family is all doing well. C: Maybe I'm eroto-phobic. As for the Death Train, if we die when we're all wrapped up in the pleasure of...
Hi Nina In a message dated 3/1/2007 3:36:34 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: There is nothing left of that lute. Seeing falls away, and...
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Dear friends, We read in the above quoted sutta that Såriputta explained to the monks about the internal liquid element (element of water): .... Whatever is...
Dear friends, Letter about Vipassanå 9 the Hague, July 29, 1991 Do we really want to be aware of attachment, lobha, when it appears? We may know that...
Hi KenH, ... Before a man and a woman have a baby there is no other people. Anyway, you will always have my admiration for the choice you have made, and the...
Hi All, We are all familiar with the following, or something similar to it. I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from ... 1. ...harming living beings....
Dear Nina and others, My computer broke down last two days. It is now at servicing center. I will continue my posts as soon as I get it back. Respectfully, Han...
Hi Nina In a message dated 3/1/2007 12:42:28 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, vangorko@... writes: Rúpas which are materiality outside such as those of a ...
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Hi Connie, ... we're ... texts ... hell ... for ... (Not too ... sexual ... some ... kids, the ... involved ... conduct ... & ... right ... for ... As I was...
Hi James, I'll restate my 'die indulging, go to a hell or animal realm' thing. The realm of rebirth depends on the last javana citta before the cuti citta. ...
Dear Friends, Bhaddaa of the Kaapilaas, part three of four: "Puno patta.m gahetvaana, sodhayitvaa sugandhinaa, pasannacittaa puuretvaa, saghata.m sakkara.m...
Hi Herman and all ... You put that well. "Bumping uglies" is a phrase that I liked in a Patsy Cline autobiography flick. All sense pleasures are sources of ...
Hi Sukin (and Ken) I just want to thank you for posting your comments. You know, I can't afford to get into an ongoing discussion on these points now. I hope I...
Dear All, Thanks for your help understanding more about Anger.. I am expecting more details about anger later from Phil, though whenever he is free.. Actually...
Dear Nitesh, (& Phil) ... .... S: Ah yes and also those suttas to James, discussion with Jon, suttas on some other topic (was it dana?)......we're all waiting...
Dear Han & all, ... .... S: I'd just like to add a quote for the reason for dana as being given first: .... ... ... S: From B.Bodhi's translation of the...
Hi Nitesh (and Sarah at the end), ... Anger is one of the three poisons of the mind (the other two being greed and delusion). It is also called one of the...
Hi Herman, ... <. . .> H: > Before a man and a woman have a baby there is no other people. ... At last count there were approximately seven billion other...
Hi James, ... ..... S: Just looking at the Anupada sutta because I didn't respond further, I notice B.Bodhi gives some commentary notes which may be helpful as...
Hi TG, ... TG: TG: I fail to see how the Sutta on the lute backs this up one iota. There are various suttas where the Buddha speaks about gradual change... A ...
Hi Connie, By way of circambulation, I do like your posts very much, I find them very rich in association, they open up a million possibilities in every line. ...
