Reply To: 5 Hindrances

Thank you for the clarification of vicikicca, and especially the added explanation of khanka vicikicca. I did some searching and found this: Mahanama Sutta https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn55/sn55.021.than.html I wonder if this is…

Schizophrenia and the mind

Hi All, I recently read an article on Schizophrenia. I was curious about what is defined as “Positive symptoms”: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/schizophrenia What is it that causes patients to Hear or see…

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…

Reply To: SN 44.10 With Ānanda / Ānandasutta

…https://www.budsas.org/ebud/dict-pe/dictpe-01-a.htm This dictionary states anattā (n. and predicative adj.) not a soul, without a soul. Most freq. in combn. with dukkha & anicca http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:533.pali There seems to be no difference…

Various Suttas translation explaining many misconceptions

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_buddha/04_04.html#05_05 Many of those suttas explains misconceptions related to food one can have etc. the essence of what really matters. They are not perfect translation probably but the meaning can…

Girimananda Sutta (AN 10:60)

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN10_60.html Any chance that we get full translation or exposition like Satipatthana? This translation have plenty of mistakes….