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If anything belonging to six pairs (senses and corresponding objects) worked as per your wishes, would you ever let anything happen, that you don’t like or that causes Suffering?
Would you ever let yourself become helpless (not being able to free yourself from suffering)?
There is ariya dukkhā and anariya dukha.
There is ariya niramisa sukha and anariya sukha.
There is ariya escape from dukkhā and anariya escape from dukha.
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Ariya dukkhā: first noble truth, not having higher magga phala, not having removed San completely, having birth.
Anariya dukha: not having amisa sukha or sukha from jhana, not having birth or not having good birth.
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Ariya sukha: magga phala, removal of san, nirodha samphatti, nibbanā, parinibbana, getting rid of dukkhā and getting rid of future suffering of saṁsāra.
Anariya sukha: having good birth, sensual pleasures, jhanic bliss, being king, having big families, properties, becoming billionaire etc.
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Ariya escape from suffering:
From saṁsāra to nibbanāAnariya escape from suffering:
From saṁsāra to saṁsāra.
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Escape from suffering of one place of sansarā to another place in sansarā is like, getting another disease when trying to cure one already existing disease.
Whole saṁsāra is disease.
Topic: What is wrong with Antinatalism movement?
Antinatalism is philosophy that holds that origin of all types of suffering can be traced back to birth. i.e. birth is reason for all suffering. Which is true.
However, this movement blames biological parents for giving birth to child. Which is what this movement gets wrong.
Parents are not 100% responsible for giving
Birth to child.Birth of child is like seed turning into tree. Parents are responsible for providing water and nutrients to seed. They are NOT responsible for existence of seed in first place.
So, antinatalist are helpless in their own suffering, because, from their materialist POV about life, someone else is responsible for their suffering they cannot do anything about it and they will forever be helpless. Because, they cannot prevent their own birth from materialist POV.
However, this is not factually true.
Rebirth can be completely stopped from ever arising.This is actually what buddha dhamma is all about.
How rebirth works, what is rebirth, what is suffering, it’s causes, it’s elimination, path to its end, why is it suffering in first place, etc all details are embedded in Paṭicca Samuppāda.
Homage to my teachers Lal, Ven. Waharaka thero and Gautama Buddha,
Who are opening dhamma eyes of many in land of blind.Topic: About depth of Paṭicca Samuppāda.
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Dhamma is like wide ocean.
All of world’s rivers end in this ocean.
You can remove practically unlimited water from it, yet it would be not exhausted.
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Name of the ocean is Paṭicca Samuppāda.
Rivers are all types of mundane worldly teachings, *religious* or *scientific*. They all have their foundation or foothold in dhamma. Not because, I say so, or because buddha says so, or out of faith.
BUT, because dhamma is timeless principle of how reality works.
Whether there is buddha or not, it remains as it is.
Meaning of “removing of water from ocean”:
You can derive insight about everything from buddha dhamma. There is answer to every question in Paṭicca Samuppāda.
Despite attempts of anyone to derive even unlimited amount of knowledge and insights from Paṭicca Samuppāda, it would remain as it is. There would always be more insights to be had from it. It would not be exhausted.
Such is dhamma.
However, It must be understood that dhamma is something that is discovered, it is not something that is created or invented.
Dhamma is not idea of someone about How reality works.
Dhamma is teaching of someone who could observe in its complete details how reality works.
Someone who knew all causes and all effects, everything about past, present, future and everything that is timeless.
I say that there is answer to all questions in Paṭicca Samuppāda, not because, it gives theory of evolution or because it teaches calculus, but, because it gives you answer to question about why were you asking question in first place or why you were ABLE to aks question in first place or why you NEEDED to ask question in first place.
It is deep, profound.
It is not about content of “life”,
but, it is about metadata of “life” and everything in it.It gives you deepest layer of casuality.
When what exists that,
spiritual life exists?
When what does not exists that,
Spiritual life does not exists?When what exists,
question and answer exists?
When what does not exists that,
Question and answers do not exist?Such are some of the deep question that are answered by Paṭicca Samuppāda.
Hello, Lal.
Load time for website is between “acceptable” and “fast enough”, In Gujarat, India.
Others can comment about website performance at their geographical location.
I performed few free website performance test, they all say that menu with lot of elements is slowing down website.
So, It might be good idea to list only main sections in menu. Then readers can test the result of this implementation.
Lal, I have few suggestions About the problem of beginner overwhelmed with vast number of posts on website.
You can simply add pre-requisite on each post. i.e. concept that should be understood before reading that particular post. Which you have already done in number of advance posts.
Another way this problem might be tackled is by assigning level to each post with tag. i.e. level 1, level 2 etc.
Level 1 means no prerequisites required for reading that post. Which basically means it is for beginner.
Level 2 means someone who has understood level 1 foundation.
So on and so forth.
For fast website, one solution I know is implementing free CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK (aka CDN) system for website.
I don’t have deep technical knowledge about running a website or optimising performance. But, this (implementation of CDN) is something I did when I had website.
Link to Google CDN service, with 90 days Trial, 300$ free credit.
Link to another forever free reliable fast CDN service.
Lal, I am extremely grateful to you for being so considerate about readers of this website. Especially about the point that you want site to be well and good after your death for many years.
Wishing you long life and short saṁsāra.
Lal, I couldn’t put the link properly, because the box with various signs did not show up at time of writing above reply despite refreshing page two times.
Sorry for that.
However, now signs are visible.
(Signs means; I, B, U, Link, Quote etc.)Lal, I was exploring waharaka sermon website, when I came across this sermon.
I translated the website into English. However, I cannot understand sinhala.
The title of this sermon in English is,
“Is there an underground hell that we can’t see?”https://waharaka.com/listen/CD068-17
This sermon might be relevant to this thread.
If you hear or have heard The sermon,
Please comment.Thank you.
Lal, I am not skeptic of buddha.
I believe that buddha among countless others saw the hells with his abhinna powers.
I said, I am not sure about my statements, I am not expert on geography nor I have abhinna powers.
1. I don’t know exact location, except that hells are said to below the surface of earth. One source is your post on “does hell exists?”, Another source is “Buddha Vamsa” written by mingun sayadaw, this two sources says that hells are below the earth’s surface without mentioning exact location.
2. I thought there might be some sort of instrument with which we may be able to send some sorts of waves
3. Three sources come to mind in this regard:
1st source and 2nd source are both Buddhist friends who follow puredhamma, they have notable meditative attainments, including abhinna to see the hell realms and brahama realms. So, even if this friends were not able to see them, I would believe it on faith in buddha.
Third source is abhaya thero’s experiment of spirit possessions. He performed many such experiments and asked Peta and ghosts about their life, how many of them are there, what they did to born in such state etc.
Those are my sources apart from tipitaka.
Lal, As I said my Question is not regarding whether they exist or not, my question is regarding detection of hell beings, not ghosts.
#1 IF THEY HAVE HUGE BODY (IN SIZE)
#2 IF THEY HAVE DENSE BODYIF #1 AND #2 ARE TRUE,
what’s problem with detection?Lal, I did read this thread.
I also read about your laylife as angarika.
My question is other than from following eight or ten percepts, what other practices are to be done for creating suitable enviornment for progress further on path while living laylife?
Also, Laylife is obviously not as pristine as monastic life.
There is more chance of tanha to arise in laylife due to diverse sense inputs.
So, I guess all one is supposed to do is to keep yoniso manasikara in mind, isn’t it?
Also, what do you mean by “one has to sort out family situation first”?
To read the “vipassanākathā” in English, you can follow this instructions.
1. Open “3.9. Vipassanākathā”
2. Translate sinhala to English (translation fearure is in built in chrome, or Google translate extension can be installed in various browsers.)This is good method to follow.
It gives rough translation of sutta.
Many suttas are available in sinhala but not in English, this method can be used for reading all of those suttas.
Not the best translation, obviously, but, it gives at least the idea of what sutta or page is about.
Okay. Thank you so much lal, for giving your valuable time to us, in advising upon matter of dhamma.
Much merits. Much metta to you.
I will study all the links.
Okay. Thank you for your reply lal.
One more side Question I have for you,
Do you have any books recommendation for dhamma learning apart from puredhamma book?
Or even books which are inspirational for dhamma practice?
Because, I don’t find any sources other than puredhamma which explains meanings in understandable consistent way.
I can’t understand sinhala to hear the discourses directly either.
Also,
Another question do you have any plan for creating section for progress from sottapana stage onwards to anāgāmi stage?
Even few posts on this subject would be much appreciated, lal.
