Dear Tep, This is with regard to a message that you addressed to Nina. I hope you would excuse my intrusion. Here is the passage I am interested in: "T: Thank...
Dear DC, ... N: The path-factor sammaadi.t.thi is dealt with here in the context of magga-paccaya, path-condition. Thus in a wider sense, including not only...
Visuddhimagga Ch XVII, 195, 196 Intro: Consciousness, vi~n~naa.na, conditions naama and ruupa, and these are cetasikas and ruupas. In the previous section the...
Dear friends, The citta and cetasikas which condition one another by way of association-condition, sampayutta-paccaya, also condition one another by way of...
Dear friends, We read in the “Kindred Sayings” (III, Khandhå-vagga, Kindred Sayings on Elements, Middle Fifty, Ch 4, § 88, Assaji) about a monk who was ...
Hi Dieter and Nina, ... my point. S: And thanks for your response. ... should not try to be aware of breath, because it is very subtle.' S: I think being...
Hi D.C., ... S: And thank you for yours. =========== ... the ... that ... is ... no?" ... dhamma books as gifts dhamma daana? I am sure you would agree that...
Dear Tep, Regarding: T: "A moment to me is a 'time duration' in which a sense-door restraint is effective. I hesitate to use "time cross-section" that is ...
Dear Tep, Regarding: T: "A moment to me is a 'time duration' in which a sense-door restraint is effective. I hesitate to use "time cross-section" that is ...
dear friends, 13. Viisatinipaato 2. Rohiniitheriigaathaava.n.nanaa 2. The commentary on the verses of Theri Rohinii part 12 verse: 287. "Tuva~nheta.m...
Dear All, This is the continuation of Chapter 10: The Perfection of Equanimity, taken from the book “The Perfections leading to Enlightenment” by Sujin...
Dear Sukin, Thanks for your lengthy post. Actually it was very good of you to have taken the trouble to write such a long post. Well, we started our discussion...
Dear Swee Boon, ... N: Sure. But it is also necessary for samatha, and I said this because some people may think only of feeling calm and forget that they have...
Hello all, ... Some texts, however, have been identified by scholars as being earlier than others; for example, in the Sutta Nipta, which is a branch of the...
Hello all. I have heard from Ajahn Brahm that Buddha Gotama was a Sakadagamin. At first I was aversive to the idea… Then I've heard Ven Dhamavudho say the...
Dear Han, Thank you very much for your e-m. I would like to make the following remarks. Dear DC (Nina, Tep), ... First, I think the words used was "degrees of...
Hi Tep Thanks for the summary of your views on the area we've been discussing in this thread. Let me try a summary of my views and see if things are any...
Hi Nina, "Text Vis.195: Or because sound is not regularly present since it is only sometimes manifested, ..." One thing that may have been overlooked is that...
Dear DC and Nina, DC, I appreciate your interest and your comments. But, since the original translator is Nina, I would like to request Nina to respond to your...
Hi Howard and Jon, - Each of the two cases below is a good example of mental formations (citta-sankhara). Are they truths, or just concepts of a reality that...
Dear DC, - ... you would excuse my intrusion. T: It is always my pleasure, you never intrude.. ;-) ... right, in some of your earlier communications. ... are...
Hi Jon, - Your patience and kindness in writing up a long reply are appreciated. Yes, the basic ideas that are the building blocks of your Abhidhamma views are...
Dear Tep, Thank you very much for your reply. It is really illuminating. ... through sensing an effect (e.g. lights, a spark, electric shock, ...) that is ...
Dear Scott, - The message you wrote this time is short, but I know how a short message can rapidly expand. ... T: Good observation! Because I wanted to...
Hi, Tep - In a message dated 10/1/2007 9:46:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, indriyabala@... writes: Hi Howard and Jon, - Each of the two cases below is a...
Hi, Tep (and Jon) - In a message dated 10/1/2007 10:31:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, indriyabala@... writes: Hi Jon, - Your patience and kindness in...
Friends: Breakthrough to the Truths safeguards against Downfall Rebirth! The Blessed Gotama <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm> Buddha...
Hi all (ps to Howard) For once a question instead of shooting off my mouth. I came across a sutta, AN IV, 232, which has ""Here someone generates both an...
... ha. erased the ps. It was about having mentionned this sutta to Howard when he was dealing with termites in his basement and reflecting on the kammic...
