A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
// Revised March 14, 2021 One cannot strive for the Sotāpanna stage without understanding the true meanings of the three characteristics of nature: anicca, dukkha, anatta. The correct meanings of…
…terms like saṅkhāra; there are three different meanings for that word in standard Theravada texts. When I started listening to the dēsanas by Waharaka Thero in Sri Lanka, it became…
…to Mundane Meanings 6. Nowadays, the words “loko” and “jīvaṁ” are taken as “the world out there/cosmos” and “self,” as Wikipedia article of #1 indicates. Here, the short answers are:…
That is interesting! They seem to convey at least the mundane meanings. “We use Viparinamam if that “which has come to be” is a development or a change for the…
Revised May 20, 2018; February 17, 2019; June 7, 2024 1. There are two meanings to “kāya”: (i) “kāya” for the body, and (ii) the other “kāya” means “collections” or…
I thought I’d post the following here instead of creating a new thread. Thank you for reminding us of the deeper meanings of the terms in Paṭicca Samuppāda. Distortion of…
…miccha sati and samdhi is referred to, these meanings still, sort of, fit in (but I’m sure there’s a better description), though the deeper meaning is that they are responsible…
…the Tipitaka wasn’t written in the same way. For example, many suttas that discuss PS do not explicitly mention that sankhara refers to abhisankhara, viññana refers to kamma viññana, etc….
…the future. The Meaning of Tanhā (Pada Nirutti) 4. Many Pāli words have their meanings in the word itself. Uncovering the meaning of a word that way is “pada nirutti.”…
…Samuppāda, Tilakkhana, Four Noble Truths.” Adhamma and Mundane Version of Saddhamma Give Rise to Rebirths 9. In the post “Dhamma – Different Meanings Depending on the Context,” we discussed different…