Reply To: Two unbroken streams of consciousness (DN28)

…“Buddha Dhamma: Non-Perceivability and Self-Consistency“. Siebe said: “In the sutta’s the Buddha advises the khandha’s, ofcourse also the vinnanakhandha, to see, with correct wisdom, like this: ‘This is not mine,…

Reply To: sakkaya ditthi and asmi mana

…Dhamma” section starts off with simple concepts. But there are only a few who can really understand the last subsection on nama rupa. Of course there could be Arahants who…

Tilakkhana – English Discourses

February 3, 2018; revised February 11, 2020; July 28, 2022 (note on Discourse 4) Tilakkhana or Three Marks of Existence or Three Characteristics of Nature (anicca, dukkha, anatta) are discussed…

Quantum Mechanics and Dhamma – Introduction

March 13, 2018; last revised February 8, 2026 Introduction 1. This section will discuss two issues: A new interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM) based on non-locality is presented, in which…

Reply To: Thai Forest Tradition

@drs8 1. Those statements sound like those intriguing Zen verses. Basically no one really understands them, but they sound deep and important! For example, “The mind sent outside is the…

Kukkuravatika Sutta (Majjhima Nikāya 57) – Kammakkhaya

…vacīsaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharoti, sabyābajjhaṃ manosaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharoti. So sabyābajjhaṃ kāyasaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ vacīsaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ manosaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ lokaṃ upapajjāti. Tamenaṃ sabyābajjhaṃ lokaṃ upapannaṃ samānaṃ sabyābajjhā phassā phusanti. So sabyābajjhehi phassehi phuṭṭho…