Reply To: What is dukkha dukkha?

…jhanic pleasures? For example, compassionate doctors who help sick patients for free or at a greatly reduced price sometimes lose their patients to death. Are anicca, dukkha and anatta inherent…

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: 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: 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…