Reply To: Discourse 4 – Sakkaya Ditthi – What is “a Person”?
…to strive to be free of it? A sense of unsatisfactoriness, dukkha,results – and can this dukkha be Utimate Existence,the Perfect State, Atta? This is just one progression,as I see,…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…to strive to be free of it? A sense of unsatisfactoriness, dukkha,results – and can this dukkha be Utimate Existence,the Perfect State, Atta? This is just one progression,as I see,…
…out of it. Don’t worry, be happy ‘ advice (out of sincere compassion, no doubt) and urge you on with classic cliche’s like ‘ perhaps next time, as long as…
…particle could take, and come up “with a plan” for its motion. This happens AUTOMATICALLY and some “unconventional paths” could result only in the case of microscopic particles like electrons…
…die.’ But as one is free from sickness and old age in the realms of kama loka above the human, the temptation to enjoy there is even greater: a fine…
…path #1 doesn’t know the medium which its counterpart is taking and certainly doesn’t know how much slower it is going compared to itself. So how can both meet at…
…and the clue. A ‘good realm’ is such only in comparison with worse and much worse ones (the apayas), not only in the number of those realms (4) but ‘worse’…
…of NOT ordaining and thus not having a shot at breaking free from samsara fill the average lay Thai/Malaysian etc Buddhist with dread? Also, regardless of your faith in taking…
…reading about deeper concepts. Deeper concepts need to be COMPREHENDED not just MEMORIZED, and that REQUIRES a mind relatively free of dasa akusala, especially the 10 types of micca ditthi….
…(i) getting rid of 10 types of micca ditthi, and (ii) comprehending Tilakkhana, in that order. When one takes care of micca ditthi, that will greatly help reducing the tendency…
…of a “mental body” that may come out of the physical body under some situations like Near-death Experience (NDE). Furthermore, now there are so many confirmed rebirth stories, which cannot…