A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
March 7, 2019; revised December 3, 2019; August 29, 2022; March 25, 2023 Introduction 1. It is important to understand the meanings of vitakka/vicāra, savitakka/savicāra, and avitakka/avicāra. I see many…
Johnny, I mostly agree with you. There is one part though that I would like to comment on. You wrote: If they don’t go looking for dukkha, how do they…
…mind becomes free of a large fraction of defiled thoughts. That is the first stage of “cooling down”. However, as I said elsewhere, different people comprehend things differently at one’s…
Siebe, Look back upon your past life experiences and your current day-to-day life. Also examine the lives of people around you. Do you agree with The Buddha that there is…
…“I now enter this or that jhana” or “I now leave this or that jhana”. A sutta tells this was how Sariputta experienced it. He was totally free from I…
…for an Arahant to be free of the khandhas and yet is not annihilated although He now ‘has no mind’ (Lal); how it can be that He ‘neither exists, nor…
…Bang” is possible, then it is a given that many other “Big Bangs” are possible. The total energy of our universe is completely consistent with adding up to zero. If…
Dear Saket, Thank you so much for the share and a noble deed indeed. May all beings be free from sufferings….
…Other universes would be subtly different – perhaps with Earth-like planets where dinosaurs were not wiped out. And there would be universes completely unlike our own, with no Earths, perhaps…
Revised April 26, 2019; August 29, 2019 “Avijjā paccayā sankhārā” (Ignorance as a root cause for immoral/unfruitful actions and thoughts). That is the same as saying “avijjā nirōdha” leads to…