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I forgot to specify a detail in my answer to #5. It is possible to obtain Iddhis, jhanas, and magga phala simultaneously even if one has not practiced jhanas in…
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I forgot to specify a detail in my answer to #5. It is possible to obtain Iddhis, jhanas, and magga phala simultaneously even if one has not practiced jhanas in…
Hello! I’m not sure if this question is in the correct place. Anyway here goes: If human birth is so difficult to obtain, why over the last 220+ years has…
Yes. It is a simple yet good example to get the basic idea. Of course, we can extend to deeper issues. For example, if you like to eat ice cream,…
…Killing (or paying others to kill) to obtain that flesh compounds the bad karma. Eating of meat itself, is ok, but how is one going to acquire that meat without…
…his personnal achievement. For example a monk know perfectly is not true what he will said and said he obtain the Jhanas and abhinnas or he becames sotapanna. If a…
As always Lal, thank you for your time and teachings, much merits to you. May any merits we obtain from this meritorious act be shared/transferred/offered to all the Satta’s and…
Thank you Lal, Lang and Cubibobi. I am beginning to obtain some clarity on this subject. Reading many current books and papers on the topic of consciousness from Roger Penrose…
…commonly recited by monks in my place. When searching internet I found two references to Jayamangala gatha (eight verses, hence known as atthagatha or asthagatha) and Alavaka Yakkha, here are…
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.081.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.072.than.html I belief both sutta’s describe the nature of the Tathagata and therefor the Budddha. In MN72 it is said: …” Freed from the classification of form (and the…
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.095.than.html One of Bahiya Sutta type with quick way to attaining Nibbana (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.1.10.than.html) Now we need to fix errors of English translation to be really effective. I’m trying to make…