A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
Hi Siebe, Here are a few examples of the Buddha and other Arahanths who suffered bodily pain after attaining enlightenment. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/hecker/wheel312.html “Yet there were still a few who could not…
Thanks Seng. Atta Vimokka is explained in the Maha Parinibbana Sutta. The link to the pali is; https://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Buddhist-Texts/D16-Mahaparinibbana/22-Vimokkha.htm In the Puggala pannatti, a panna vimutta person is explained to be…
Maybe MN19 is helpful? https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.019.than.html kind regards, Siebe…
Hi Tobias, A sutta which made things more clear to me is SN22.89. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.089.than.html It makes clear, i belief, until someone is an arahant, with regard to the five clinging-aggregates…
…www in the address line: It should just be: https://puredhamma.net. Normally, typing just “puredhamma.net” should direct to https://puredhamma.net. Or, one could Google search “puredhamma” and the link will come out…
…more to come, especially if technology is developed to explore distant stars. Here is a report that came out today, Dec 9, 2014, which has another video by NASA: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2865886/Mars-warm-wet-entire-PLANET-Curiosity-rover-reveals-crater-mountain-exploring-giant-lake.html…
…settle down and not come up (assuming that we are staying away from committing the BIG EIGHT immoral acts). However, this calming down or getting to Samatha is a TEMPORARY…
…extracted from, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.121.than.html. Normally, I come across many English translations that are bad and even erroneous, but fortunately, this translation is fairly good. The highlighting in the link below is…
…Once again, sir, thank you! I have been reading “A Discourse on Paticcasamuppada” by Venerable. Mahasi Sayadaw https://www.wisdomlib.org/buddhism/book/a-discourse-on-paticcasamuppada/d/doc1995.html In this chapter it says that Venerable Ugga obtained Arhatship in the…
…both. To know more about 31 realms, reading this book “The Thirty-One Planes of Existence” by Venerable Bhante Suvanno and the article “The Thirty-One Planes of Existence” at “www.accesstoinsight.org” helps….