Hi Larry, Scott explained that we have to be careful according to which method we are considering realities. Scott's post on the different methods is very...
Hi TG, ... TG: 1) What is in a name? Apparently a whole lot as you folks love to drill it home at every chance. ;-) ... N: Seeing is always seeing. We can...
Hi TG, Good, I looked it up in B.B. No substance, no sara, in Pali. Sorry, we cannot work without the Pali. You fall over sabhaava, but let us not discuss this...
Hi Phil (and All) Sending this from Bangkok. Trying to catch up on some outstanding posts (from you and others) that were addressed to me. Apologies for the...
Visuddhimagga Ch XVII, 167. Intro: In the previous section it was explained that the rebirth- consciousness did not come from a past life, although its...
dear friends, 8. A.t.thakanipaato 1. Siisuupacaalaatheriigaathaava.n.nanaa part 3 On verse: 197. "Taavati.msaa ca yaamaa ca, tusitaa caapi devataa; ...
Dear Scott, It could be a tappurisa compound: adhi.t.thaana (foundation) +abhinivesa (adherence)+anusayaa (latent tendency). The foundation for the latent...
Hi TG ... This is the point I was making. A person paraphrasing the texts to the best of his/her understanding is not claiming to be doing so on the basis of...
Hi Nina and Scott, Thanks for your reply. I couldn't find Scott's explanation, but I took a look at Vism.XVII,231. Does this mean that the pleasant or...
Hi Nina, Someone might say that dependent arising being a matter of "neither the same nor different" means that nama and rupa are neither the same nor...
Hi Scott Conditions arise, change, and cease in accordance with natural forces; and they do so despite whatever "method" of understanding them we apply. The...
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Hi Nina I'm sorry, but I didn't understand at all what you meant by the following. You seems to agree with my understanding of the Sutta, then say I fall over...
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Dear friends, As to the fourth class of phenomena to which conascence-condition pertains, citta and its accompanying cetasikas condition the rúpa produced by...
Dear friends, Summarizing the stages of mahå-vipassanå, they are: udayabbaya ~naa.na, knowledge of arising and falling away bha.nga ~naa.na, knowledge of...
Hi TG, In apost to Jon you said: <NEW TG: The theory of "dhammas" (in this case cittas) as "ultimate ... N: In Pali: paramattha dhammas with sabhava...
Hi Larry, as is said in the Vis. and Tiika: This shows that there is neither absolute identity nor absolute otherness in a continuous stream of cittas arisen...
Hi TG, ... TG to Nina: > We cannot say a table is impermanent eh? The Buddha, in the Suttas, said that things such as "ships" were impermanent, "mountains"...
Dear TG, Thanks for presenting these views regarding conditionality: TG: "Conditions arise, change, and cease in accordance with natural forces; and they do so...
Hi Nina, I think you anwered my question. It had to do with this line: "It is emphasized here that with respect to what arises from conditions there is neither...
Hi Howard (and Nina), ... <. . .> H: > Nina, in a sense there is no table. But in another sense, in terms of a variety of associated mental operations and...
dear scottduncan, it really irritates me when i have to read my own posts. of course this must be STP: "...mindfulness that *there is a body, are feelings, is...
Hi Colette ... Actually I agree with the thrust of what you say here; I think the remark you are saying was WRONG was on a different point. Some folks...
Hi Scott ... Sorry, but I have no thoughts on this question as yet. I need to spend some more time on the other comments (Sarah's, Nina's) to get a better...
Hi Larry (and Sarah) I agree very much with your conclusion here, Larry: being on the right path is a momentary thing. Absolutely must be kusala but, as you...
In a message dated 7/1/2007 6:05:20 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, scduncan@... writes: Scott: From the vantage point of the neo-commentarial theory...
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Hi Nina (and Scott) ... Thanks very much for posting this passage from the commentary, which I don't recall having seen before. By coincidence, I was thinking...
Hi TG (and Scott) I would say that when the Buddha lists the things set out in Scott's list from MN 112 he is saying that, in truth and reality, (a) that what...
