Reply To: Four Conditions for Attaining Sōtapanna Magga/Phala

…down right there on the ground. Seeing the drawbacks of the body, my mind was then set free. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/thig.01.00x.than.html#sutta-1 Can we really know the conditions for such breaktrough moments? Sieb…

Reply To: Kammic Outcomes of Ambiguous Behavior

…christian morals…remorse,redemption and salvation. But of course there is a fondamental difference : in puredhamma underlying remorse,redemption and salvation there is an effort towards the understanding and integration of profound

Reply To: Kammic Outcomes of Ambiguous Behavior

Yeos said: “comes to my mind…: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.028.nymo.html “The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning,..” The sutta is Adittapariyaya Sutta (SN 35.28): The sutta is…

the effects of practices and contemplations.

…that recommended practices or contemplations lead to unhappiness, what to do? Does one have to continue? Is it only a temporary symptom that will dissappear? What is temporary? Or, does

Attitude towards kamaloka devas

From https://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/305.htm “It is a common belief amongst the Buddhist public that such deities can be influenced to grant their favours by transferring merits to them whenever meritorious deeds are…

Sotapattiyangas

This Sutta may shed some more light on the http://www.buddha-vacana.org/sutta/anguttara/05/an05-179.html…

Reply To: what does ending of sakkaya ditthi really mean?

…we should “attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self.” https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.122.than.html…