Nibbid83

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    You still need to “listen” to someone either thru audio or audio-video who understand Dhamma. It works on whole different level then

    Somewhere already on the forum, and I think it was Mr. Lal who referred to the issue of this “need to listen” and it was that the message itself, which comes from Ariya, is important and can be read as well, what matters is understanding and implementation in practice. This issue of listening strictly may come from a time where there was a problem with access to print, it appears as some kind of superstition, or something of the caliber of a “ritual” – just a thing by force, a dogma of some kind. I have access to PureDhamma content, and I don’t think that by reading it and putting it into practice I am at a disadvantage to those who understand English enough to catch every important nuance and benefit from it.

     

    Nibbid83
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    To complete your comment, Christian. It is simply impossible to become sotāpanna alone. A puthujunas must associate with a person who is at least sotāpanna, to become one. Your suggestion of a master who follows our progress is perfect!

     

    See Sotāpattiphalasutta

    Dutiyasāriputtasutta

    Upaḍḍhasutta

    I would agree if I didn’t have access to PureDhamma – but now that I have access to such an extensive explanation, made through the efforts of Mr. Lal – I don’t know if this is still a valid thesis ;)

    in reply to: Support of monks / monasteries / centers #52442
    Nibbid83
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    Thank you sincerely for your responses. For this moment I have started support from Jethavanaram and also contacted https://ugandabuddhistcenter.org/ to give the most convenient way to support them. :)

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    in reply to: Goenka´s Vipassana – Part 2 #50436
    Nibbid83
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    Thank you for your reply. I look forward to the updated document – thank you for your input! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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    in reply to: Goenka´s Vipassana – Part 2 #50413
    Nibbid83
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    Dear Jorg. I will be delving into the entire post and your e-book. Please write whether, after your discussion with LAL and other users, you made corrections to the document, or does the link leading to the PDF in your first post contain the original version without any corrections? 

    in reply to: Is it wrong to pay for sex? #50380
    Nibbid83
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    Sir, was there anything about how to cope, being on the path, having a partner? I am fortunate that mine is also following the Dhamma path so we will extinguish these natural instincts mutually but in general it would be useful for people to know how to deal with these instincts (which are also so strongly determined by biology, genes, to reproduce, cellular proliferation even…).

    PS. By the way, Mr. Lal – I have no words to express my gratitude for what you are doing and for this priceless gift of Dhamma!

    in reply to: Is it wrong to pay for sex? #50372
    Nibbid83
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    There are still derivative aspects to consider regarding harm. The issue is whether the person using such services can be sure that the person having sex for money is not forced to do so by the pimp, it is not known whether the person is not forced by life circumstances into this profession (and actually suffers doing so), it is not known whether the person is fully sane, and so on.

    There are a lot of unanswered questions and ignoring such speculations and using the services after all, this falls a bit under what LAL described. I took the liberty of clarifying in a down-to-earth way, adding my three cents.

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