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“I am not a man,” the Buddha said.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Tags: Buddha, liberation, Pali, rebirth, Secular Buddhist
Posted in AN 4.36 Dona Sutta, bhavissatī, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Dona the Brahmin, Rebirth, responses to blogs &c, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 11 Comments »

What Is Birth?

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Tags: aggregates, dependent arising, flexible words, Pali, Theravada, translation, word context
Posted in ayatana, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Buddhist Vocabulary, MN 141, paticca samuppada, Piyadassi Thera, responses to blogs &c, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 2 Comments »

A Doubly-Bad Dice Throw

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Tags: after the breakup of the body, fruit and result of good and bad actions, Kalama Sutta, kamma, logical argument, merit, no other world
Posted in AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, MN 60 Safe Bet, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 14 Comments »

Kalama Sutta: The Freethinker’s Toolkit aka “The Straw Man”

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Tags: agnosticism, cafeteria Buddhism, critical thinking, free enquiry, Kalama Sutta, memes, skepticism, taking apart the wheel of dhamma
Posted in AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Critical thinking, direct experience, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 5 Comments »

The Kalama Sutta “In The News”

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Tags: Citizens United, critical thinking, Kalama Sutta, meditation, Obama, propaganda
Posted in AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta, Critical thinking, direct experience, meditation (concentration), mindfulness, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 10 Comments »

In Translation, but not just from the Pali to English

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Tags: a k warder, ahetuvada, Ajivikas, akiriavada, asava, Gombrich, Jains, Kalama Sutta, liberation, lokuttara, natthivada, nihilism, non-causality, non-doing, Pali, sasava, supramundane, translation
Posted in A K Warder, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Buddhist Vocabulary, MN 117 Great Forty, Richard F Gombrich, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 2 Comments »

If the Buddha Taught Karma and Rebirth, He Also Taught Ritual Sacrifice (and that the world exists just as we believe it to be)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Tags: asava, fruit and result of good and bad actions, given offered sacrificed, Gombrich, kamma, rebirth, right view, taints, Theravada, Vedas, wrong view
Posted in Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, causality / non-causality, kamma, MN 117 Great Forty, nihilism, non-action, Rebirth, Richard F Gombrich, Suttas, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 5 Comments »