Reply To: Early Buddhism vs Theravada

I hadn’t heard of Chinese Agama before so I did a little check. I found a website where Agama is accessible. www.ahanjing.top Interestingly, it’s linked to Accesstoinsight.org as an English…

Reply To: The Infinity problem – BIG doubt

…https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.107.horn.html In general, sutta’s mention there are really many things which are not conducive for realising Nibbana and those are, in fact, quit normal things, like beings longing for and…

Reply To: Kammic Outcomes of Ambiguous Behavior

…And at the right moment that i’m writing the latter it suddenly comes to my mind…: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.028.nymo.html “The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning,…

Reply To: Could bodily pain be due causes other than kamma vipaka?

…foot, in the last 4 lines at the bottom of the page. https://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/Connection-with-Previous-Deeds/05-Pierced-by-a-Rock.htm Relevant to your marathon question; In the Pubbakamma Pilotika Therapadana, the Buddha says how he insulted a…

Past and futures Lives of Bhikkhu Isidore

…renouncer. He also made the wish to become a Lord Buddha.   The painting of Isidore’s lives Attention : Without the commentaries on Isidore’s lives which follow it, the picture…

A Meditation Table on Anicca from SN 56.11

…than one thought before. It is not something which comes and goes here and there , then and now. Life, Youth and Vigour and Health, joy and happiness, pain and…