Post by Bhikkhu Pesala » Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:26 pm confusedsoso wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 10:46 pm What exactly is evil? Does it exists in theravada buddhism? Yes. It should be distinguished from unwholesome. Dhammapada v 183 wrote:Sabbapāpassa akaraṇaṃ, kusalassa upasam...
(thinking), "Perhaps I may bring about his fall from this celibate life," then regardless of whether or not he is cross-examined on a later occasion, if the issue pertains otherwise, an aspect used as a mere ploy, and the bhikkhu confesses his aversion, it entails initial and subsequent...
'O bhikkhus, what is the Absolute (Asamkhata, Unconditioned)? 「比丘们啊!什么是绝对(无为)? It is, O bhikkhus, the extinction of desire, the extinction of hatred, the extinction of illusion. 它就是贪的熄灭、嗔的熄灭、疑的熄灭。 This, O bhikkhus, is called the Absolute. 这个,比丘们...
The Buddha — Siddhartha Gautama — called mindfulness “the path to enlightenment.” To spread the word of enlightenment, he asked that his senior monks (called bhikkhus) teach a doctrine called The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. When the bhikkhus asked the Buddha which four foundations they ...
The Maggasamyutta—Connected Discourses on the Path is in the Pali Canon collection of suttas called The Connected Discourses of the Buddha—A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000), 1523. 17. When one attends a meditation retreat at an Insight ...
BHIKKHUPESALA Preface Nibbāna is extremely subtle and hard to describe. It is not a place like heaven or paradise. The Arahants and Buddhas do not "enter" nibbāna when they die. Nibbāna is not annihilation of the self, since the so-called 'self' does not exist — though attaining nibb...
for there is no first cause possible as, according to Buddhism, everything is relative and inter-dependent. 因为按佛法说,一切都是相对的、相互依存的。 Even this 'thirst', tanha, which is considered as the cause or origin of dukkha,
The Buddha says, "I declare, O Bhikkhus, that volition (cetana) is Kamma. Having willed one acts by body, speech and thought." Every volitional action of persons, except those of Buddhas and Arahants, is called Kamma. An exception is made in their case because they are delivered from ...
"Friend Sariputta, it is said, ' Nibbana, Nibbana.' What now is Nibbana? " "The destruction of lust, the destruction of hatred, the destruction of delusion: this, friend, is called Nibbana. "But, friend, is there a path, is there a way for the realization of this Nibbana?" "There...
Besides being the standard approach for cultivating one of the immaterial spheres, a pre-Buddhist form of practice, the same notion that there is nothing can also be related to insight. Such insight could be retrospectively applied to the attainment of the immaterial sphere of nothingness, or ...