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…reading the latest post: Uncovering the Suffering-Free (Pabhassara) Mind Under number 12, we have the phrase “sīti bhavissanti“, meaning “will be fully cooled down“. Does bhavissanti break down to “bhava”…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…reading the latest post: Uncovering the Suffering-Free (Pabhassara) Mind Under number 12, we have the phrase “sīti bhavissanti“, meaning “will be fully cooled down“. Does bhavissanti break down to “bhava”…
…at present. Another heap of bones excavated somewhere and that will change to two millions years, or three. And so it will go on, people accepting the latest scientific view…
Hi Lal, Any latest news on this proposed bill? I did a Google search but didn’t find any news in English. Any news in Sinhala news papers? Thanks….
…need to start from the first principles. P.S. I just saw your latest comment where you wrote: “Dipohasadhamma mentioned “I am (at present) at a loss for WHAT this seed…
March 2, 2019; revised January 3, 2020; February 14, 2022; February 1, 2023 Introduction 1. The Buddha clearly describes the jhānic experiences in the first four jhāna in the “Sāmaññaphala…
…analogies to describe how a mind becomes agitated, heated, or lethargic under different conditions. A “stress-free mind” is like a tall glass of pure water. That suffering-free mind is called…
…talk about their attainments. Reading them and carefully examining them. It appears that most of them, if not all, have no relation to magga phala. Just to be sure, I…
…he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921 — and those quanta were given the name photon; they are the original “quanta” of quantum mechanics. Compton (Compton 1923) confirmed…
Dasa samyōjana are the ten “chains” or “bonds” that bind one to the rebirth process (with saṃsāric bonds.) August 6, 2017; revised February 14, 2018; August 7, 2022; rewritten July…
Recovering the suffering-free pure mind requires comprehension of Buddha’s broader worldview and his analysis of mental phenomena. August 9, 2023 True Happiness Is the Absence of Suffering (with chart B)…