Reply To: Is circumambulation a mere rite or ritual?

…how the key Pali terms originated (“pada nirukti”). Kusala comes from “ku” + ”sala”, where “ku” refers to “kunu” or keles or defilements, and “sala” means “to get rid of”….

Reply To: Is circumambulation a mere rite or ritual?

Moreover,one should judiciously take advantage of the free available time one has. If one has to choose between Insight Meditation/ Tilakhanna bhavana and circumnanbulations…well the decision isn’t difficult to make….

Reply To: Goenka´s Vipassana

…to read to perceive or comprehend, although theory is certainly helpful. Which is why I reiterate that through experiencing the effects of the technique, one could come to their own…

Reply To: Fearing Nibbana

…shall describe the coming and going of consciousness, its passing away and re-appearance, its growth,increase, and maturation” – that is impossible”. Yes. Thank you for saving my time looking for

Reply To: Fearing Nibbana

…is possible that one can deliberately come back to ‘this world, the 31 realms of samsara, while one is totally freed from samsara, to help other beings? kind regards, Siebe…

Reply To: does good kamma lead to good results?

…five aggregates subject to clinging, the residual conceit ‘I am,’ the desire ‘I am,’ the underlying tendency ‘I am’ that had not yet been uprooted—this comes to be uprooted.” https://suttacentral.net/en/sn22.89…

Reply To: Two unbroken streams of consciousness (DN28)

…life, become completely free of whatever it normally perceives or experieces, such as thoughts, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness (seeing, hearing, smelling, sensing a body etc) and stil one…