Dear Tg Ok, I see. I don't read much on dsg so have no idea what ahs been said over recent months. Have never heard the idea that panna is only direct knowing...
Hi James, ... N: See the following suttas: the abandoning of the all, and the following: <I will teach you a teaching, brethren, for the abandoning of the all...
Hi Larry, ... N: Perhaps we should clarify first what experience is. Rupa can be experienced by a citta that cognizes it. Rupa itself does not know anything,...
Hi TG, ... N: I followed most of what you have written. Vipassana ~naa.na is vipassana ~naa.na, different from thinking. Thinking thinks about realities, but...
Dear friends, Question: Sometimes mettå can arise when one is concerned about other people who are in trouble. At such a moment there is sati but there may...
Hi Ken, Sorry, but you've got Miss Interpretation standing next to you and doing what she does best: give advice. She typically gives 100% wrong advice when...
Hi James, I have a few minutes left, I waisted so much time researching backwards on this thread as a means of finding out what sutta you are speaking of so...
Hi TG, Pardon me, is this my ball, laying on the green? (I'm thinking of something that Chevy Chase or Rodney Dangerfield might've said in the movie Caddy...
Hi, TG (and all) - The article's presentation of the forms of pa~n~na strikes me as balanced, correct and comprehensive. What find idiosyncratic about...
Hi Howard, ... N: I agree with the beginning and end of the above, but not with the middle:<there can be no sight independent of eye and seeing - there can be...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 4/1/2008 9:48:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vangorko@... writes: N: I agree with the beginning and end of the above, but...
Hi Nina The point I've been making is that insight incorporates aspects of thinking, reflecting, contemplating, as well as direct experience. These insight ...
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Qualities of a Sotapanna Sadda endowed with unwavering faith in the Awakened One endowed with unwavering faith in the Dhamma endowed with unwavering faith in...
Hi Collete!!! ... Since everybody here knows that I have no deal with freemansonry at all, I feel myself free to stand some remarks about these questions. When...
Hi James ... I don't understand what kind of "contrary analysis" you could have in mind. You yourself concede that there is no actual mention of jhana in the...
Dear TG, Thanks for the reply: NEW TG: "'Conceptual wholes' is just your 'conception' of what you think I am saying because you don't understand what I am...
Hi Jon, ... brought up ... who ... teachers ... found ... analysis, ... ... in ... jhana in ... assumed or ... role ... 8 Jhanas are mentioned in MN26. Alara...
Friends: Bending the Mind by Meditation! Meditation is Higher Education of Another Kind! Details Inside! Meditation is an exquisite method of mind training,...
Dear TG, Further regarding: TG: "I seem to recall you acting like I must be loco to think that panna could refer to anything along the lines of inferential...
Hi Howard, Howard: "In the Kalaka Sutta the Buddha taught "Thus, monks, the Tathagata, when seeing what is to be seen, doesn't construe an [object as] seen. He...
Hi Nina, Nina: "Perhaps we should clarify first what experience is. Rupa can be experienced by a citta that cognizes it. Rupa itself does not know anything, it...
Dear Ken H & all, ... of ... abandoning, ... ... S: There is also frequent reference directly or indirectly to these 3 pari~n~naas, i.e. ~naatapari~n~naa,...
Dear Scott (Tep & all), Back to #78355 ... <...> ... language ... understood ... keep ... .... S: I was interested in this discussion you were having before. I...
Hi Alex, ... .... S: So you're saying that 'what must be done MUST BE DONE' by the 5 khandhas. What about the development of wisdom or the path factors, is...
Hi Howard, Back to #84136 ... dispassion ... defilements are ... understanding as ... aggregations ... ... S: I would say: there are only paramattha dhammas. ...
Dear Alex, ... ... S: What you mean is that whenever commentaries agree *with your interpretation (or TB's) of the suttas*, then you agree with the ...
Dear Han (Azita, Sumane & all), ... ... S: Unless ill will has been eradicated, it is bound to arise even if metta has been developed to the stage of jhana. In...
Hi Ken (cc: Larry, et al.), Someone was kind enough to point this post out to me and hoped I'd respond. Fair enough. Discussion of what 'nama' is... Let's...
