Dear Han, ... N: According to the commentaries, this is mine refers to just clinging, without wrong view; this I am, refers to conceit and this is my self’...
Dear Nina, Thank you very much for your further clarifications which I find very useful. ... It is important to understand the meaning of atta, and we may read...
Dear Friends, Nina's ch.2 continues: If one develops kusala without expecting any result for oneself, the result will be in conformity with the kusala one...
Dear friends, Question: I remember that when I was a child my father made me recite texts. I could recite many texts but I did not understand their meaning. It...
Hi, Nina. ... or ... to ... appearing ... X. ... That's what I've been trying to say, I think. ... the ... in ... and ... know ... Yes, I don't think anyone...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 5/1/2008 9:31:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vangorko@... writes: The Visuddhimagga explains that people who begin with ...
Dear Han, H: I take atta as considering the five aggregates are I or Han. To this category it may be added that it is I who do this or that. c: B.C. Law, in...
Dear Walto, ... N: No, but some people may not know the real cause which brings the appropriate result. They may not realise that they should know when the...
Dear Lukas, ... N: Seeing is an experience that cognizes solour or visible object, that which impinges on the eyesense. The eyesense is a rupa (physical ...
Dear Elaine, I think you do not mind if I answer you in dsg, others are also interested. ... N: But I know that you have read and have done quite an amount of...
... know of no ... Dhamma (and ... the 4 right efforts are ... for all ... particular that unless ... especially ... importance, ... of my ... eliminate the ...
Dear Connie, Thank you very much for the quotes from B.C. Law, "The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa" and your remarks. ... Han: It is very deep for me. I will...
Dear James, James: Should someone first consider the suttas (the Buddha's word) or the commentary/Abhidhamma (someone else's word)? When there is a conflict,...
sorry to be in such a reading frenzy... shirking the vsm! <<p.274 THE MAHAVASTU pdf: exalted Ka^yapa would not consent to stay in Benares for the rainy season...
Hi Howard, ... <. . .> H: > The question as to whether the Buddha's 8-fold path occurs in a single moment aside, I do not agree that all reality occurs in a ...
Patthana (35) Dear Friends, We are studying (6) Conascence Condition (sahajaata-paccaya). This Condition is divided into six types. We had taken up the first...
Dear friends, The Visuddhimagga explains that in order to make mettå grow it should first be developed towards a person one respects, someone who observes...
Visuddhimagga Ch XVII, 253, 254, 255. Intro: As we have seen, bhava, becoming, is twofold: kamma-process becoming and rebirth-process becoming. As the...
Dear Connie and Howard, ... ...In the Vinayapitaka is taught the avoidance of transgression, as transgression in defilements is diametrically opposed to...
Hi Jon, ... <. . .> KH: > > If we are regarding dana as a ... time ... J: > I would rather say, "If we are talking about the dhamma that is dana then (like all...
Dear Sarah, Thanks for the reply (I liked the excerpt from Ven. Pesala): S: "...Yes, yoniso manasikara (wise attention) can be the condition for panna to arise...
Dear Sarah, Here's the comparison of translations for Visuddhimagga XVII, Exposition of the Plane of Understanding: The Path of Purity (Pe Maung Tin): "For...
... . . . ... I ... Hi Walto (and Howard), I am glad you raised this topic, and I hope you will continue to do so until you have all the facts. You might not...
Hi James ... I was really only agreeing with the following comment of yours made in an earlier post: "It is incorrect to say that the Noble Eightfold Path is...
Hi, Nina - In a message dated 5/2/2008 5:16:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, vangorko@... writes: Howard, you remember our debate about the Co. comparing...
Dear Friends, ch. 2 of TA Sujin Boriharnwanaket's "The Perfections in Daily Life" continues: Siila is twofold: as avoidance (vaaritta) and as performance...
Hi TG ... Well I was only responding on the narrow point of your assertion that the sutta passage you quoted mentions only dhammas and not conventional ...
