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…Confidence in Dhamma I concluded that Buddha Dhamma passes that test. Do you disagree? Try applying it to the Vedic and Mahayana philosophies you referenced. Do they pass the test?…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…Confidence in Dhamma I concluded that Buddha Dhamma passes that test. Do you disagree? Try applying it to the Vedic and Mahayana philosophies you referenced. Do they pass the test?…
…attain higher magga phala, especially the Anāgāmi stage. January 25, 2025 Download/Print: “Distorted Saññā Present in All Realms“ Satipaṭṭhāna Bhumi – “Distorted Saññā” Absent 1. Using the above chart, I…
…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…
…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…
…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’…
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 jhāna)…
…in kāma dhātu (with “kāma saññā”), they are NOT in kāma bhava. They are free of all three bhava (kāma, rupa, and arupa.) It is a good idea to examine…
…sensual pleasures. He/she perceives such a life to be suffering. But the Noble Person lives a stress-free life and is free from the births in the apāyā where there is…
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…
…example, “Sanidāna Sutta (SN 14.12).” All that can happen in a short time. For example, the decision to lie, steal, sexually misbehave, or even kill can occur in a split…