Reply To: Sotapanna information from the Sutta-pitaka
I like to share this with you and ask for your comment. It seems like realising Sotapanna stage in the sutta’s is expressed in different ways: -1. arising of the…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
I like to share this with you and ask for your comment. It seems like realising Sotapanna stage in the sutta’s is expressed in different ways: -1. arising of the…
Dear Saket, Thank you so much for the share and a noble deed indeed. May all beings be free from sufferings….
…patilabhi samyojana, in addition to sakkaya ditthi, vicikicca, silabbata paramasa, and patigha. The sutta specifically says, orambhagiya samyojana (the first five) have been removed. So, one is free of kama…
…have not read that parinibbana means, for example, that mind becomes totally free of any body and is, for ever and Always, happy and beyond samsara in some kind of…
…bad based on our likes and dislikes. But that does not free up the ‘inherent problems’ with things that we have no craving for. Just like the houses mentioned above….
…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…
…of Sansāra (or Samsāra)“. – The ability to see “san” (defilements of greed, hate, ignorance that come to one’s mind) increases significantly when one starts comprehending Tilakkhana, i.e., at the…
…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…