A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…the senses). Removal by good associations (“paį¹isevanÄ pahÄtabbÄ,” where sevana is an association: for example, with good friends and good deeds). Removal by tolerance and patience (“adhivÄsanÄ pahÄtabbÄ“). For example,…
…in the app for the app to find the material. For me the location after downloading to default download folder and extracting ended up to be this: /storage/emulated/0/Download/BuddhistTexts/BuddhistTexts/ I suppose…
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…is it! I hope they are clearer now. Please send me an email or comment below if those instructions need improvements. – Anyone can try out a test page if…
…Arahants are in kÄma dhÄtu, they are NOT in kÄma bhava. They are free of all three bhava (kÄma, rupa, and arupa.) It is a good idea to examine the…
Revised April 22, 2016; revised November 15, 2019; September 6, 2020 Libet’s Experiment 1. In 1983, Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment (apparently) showing that our brain makes decisions before we…
…Here’s a good video of the place, although a little idealized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKyKczBP6k There’s about 40 monks there and 12 anigarikas. The place is still under construction and is a quite…
…merits..they are sure to descend to the four woeful states’ The Buddha mentioned instances where so-and-so had ascended to such-and-such deva (or brahma) realm and ‘will obtain release from there’…
…prolong sukha vedana as much as possible, they engage in sankhara dukkha (the suffering of burdensome activities). For example, they work strenuously at jobs in order to have enough money…
October 12, 2017; revised April 28, 2018; February 11, 2020; June 26, 2022; rewritten February 1, 2023 Introduction 1. Many people have recently attained magga phala (with or without jhÄna)…