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August 18, 2019 at 12:10 pm in reply to: Hello and please accept my gratitute for Pure Dhamma #24362
Christian
ParticipantIf you want you can join our group which is related to pure dhamma but also to other pure dhammic teachers https://discord.gg/s6PMz7w you will find some people from your country too. :)
Christian
ParticipantThis is another new age hoax to sell out people hope for the future. Same as fad diets gurus and other people who make up things with a lot of buzz words – this is just another sect that keeps leeching of people suffering. :(
There is no real progress outside Dhamma – keep that in mind
Christian
ParticipantEven going to the mundane and common sense – what is better learning alone things you do not understand or having someone who understand the topic? If I going to give you book on physics or math even for beginner you would have much more problems and trouble then person who have someone who is more advanced and have better understanding (better and PROPER) so you have a lot of clarity moments which it not necessary to be like that when doing things alone without any ideas what those things are about of having assumptions about them of how they are like :)
Christian
ParticipantThis does not need any Tipitaka reference. Not everything needs Tipitaka reference if one would be limited like christians or muslims to scriptures it means one is limited to those scriptures and does not develop any wisdom but just blind faith. Tipitaka is Dhamma which makes people develop wisdom so they can apply it to all sorts of things and come up with the clarity and see things the way they are :)
About the question you asked I will show you examples that can gives you a hint. Let say there is musician who can read the music (notes) but without knowing how to play and instrument and hearing one does not really experience the music one reads. Same with people on the Path, one needs to listen to the Dhamma to truly understand it as musicians needs to learn/listen to music to really understand the notes. :)
July 16, 2019 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Human Life – A Mental Base (Gandhabba) and a Material Base (Cell) #23932Christian
Participant@Tobias G
The first case of talking to plants or rice is that everything is affected by energy that mind generates. If you generate bad intention or killing intention it can affect living organism to the extent of your javana power, same with metta. People with strong metta can actually trigger bliss factor in others people mind.
Christian
Participant@Lal I didn’t mean Axel here really. Back in the days when I was researching supernatural stuff (and the things I experienced) most people just created content based on their imagination not experience to lure people by means of fantasy and “secrecy” but it’s not different then watching horror movie or any other things that excites mind, for those people it does not matter if it’s real or no. :)
Christian
ParticipantI’m always vary and always trying to be rational when it comes to those materials as there is many new age made up stuff that people make to get attention of others for views and monetization to leech off people compulsive day-dreaming and to entertainment by straight lying about what really happens after death etc. but this I think is good one (but still can be made up for the sake of catch up audience)
Christian
ParticipantThank you very much Lal, now it’s make perfect sense
Christian
ParticipantI was thinking exactly the same way Lal but just wanted to mention it as people who are new can find it contradicting :)
Christian
ParticipantHello Dhamma brothers :)
I want to ask about #10 verse as the first Lal explains that one can attain Anagami thru Ariya Metta pracitce but once we go lower to the mentioned #10 verse Lal translates it as Sakadagami. Is this mistake or there is something more to this?
Thank you
Christian
ParticipantThank you Lal for you work. :)
Christian
ParticipantFrom what I see the meaning behind is like that:
1) “Hey look at me I attained Nibbana, worship me!” – Breaking precepts
2) “I attained Nibbana, let me help you be free of suffering” – Okay to doBuddha mentioned that using superpowers to coax other people to practice Dhamma is not really right way to do because they would have wrong views about it but at the same time I remember story of Buddha who takes one person who was attached to his girlfriend/wife and could not leave her for a 5 minutes, Buddha showed him other great nymphs in higher realms so he considered that his wife is no more than monkey compared to them, Buddha coaxing him if he follows Noble Path he would be reborn in that realm with all those women so he ordained but at the same time in the process he attained Nibbana, other monks laughed his off as his intention was “impure” but Buddha “scolded” those monks as he already attained Arahantship.
Every situation needs a certain stage of wisdom – we can not act like robots and Buddha never expected that when he states Vinaya, some rules are straightforward but some rules seems to have open space for wisdom of a person and for him to decide and be responsible for his actions.
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Christian
ParticipantLook into those desanas, also I help other people attain Nibbana on the group the way I attained it. We use puredhamma.net as a textbook to explain concepts of Dhamma and apply those things in practical matter with real-life examples. Link is around the forum to the group if you want to join it of course.
May 24, 2019 at 10:12 am in reply to: Yamaka Sutta (SN 22.85) – Arahanthood Is Not Annihilation but End of Suffering #23328Christian
ParticipantI do not think so there will be any satisfactory answer to it until one can start making any effort in 8-fold Path. What happens after Nibbana? Nibbana of course.
The closest explanation I can give is that Nibbana becomes the dominant “layer” before anything at the stage Arahanthood but before that other aggregates can be still dominant like in Sotapanna stage because of yet to be resolved avijja.
As Lal said: “Nibbana is the “state” that is reached when all those are stopped from arising. There are no citta, cetasika, rupa “in Nibbana””
May 24, 2019 at 3:58 am in reply to: Yamaka Sutta (SN 22.85) – Arahanthood Is Not Annihilation but End of Suffering #23326Christian
ParticipantLet us not go this way again. One can not think out the experience of Parinibbana prior to attaining it as a person can not think out the new color that he does not know as thinking process only revolves around what we know already.
The point is that self cannot be the basis of itself so it can not be no/not-self as anatta.
One will have a glimpse or understanding/experience of what Nibbana is when one follows 8 fold Path otherwise using any conventional ideas will only bring more corruption to Dhamma and wrong views especially by those people who did not even reach Sotapanna.
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