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Dependent Arising Is Not Interdependent

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Tags: deliverance, dependent arising, human, kamma, liberation, rebirth
Posted in interdependence, paticca samuppada, Possibilities | 8 Comments »

Possibilities: Karma, Merit and Vipaka

Friday, August 5th, 2011

Tags: applying theory to life, intention, kamma, selfish, unnecessarily real
Posted in Angulimala, causation, dukkha, kamma, Modern Teachers and Translators, Possibilities, vipaka aka merit | 6 Comments »

Not Necessarily Real: Absolute Truth vs Samsaric Truth

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Tags: critical thinking, dependent arising, intention, liberation, reality check, truth, unnecessarily real
Posted in Critical thinking, dhamma, direct experience, dukkha, Possibilities | 4 Comments »

Possibilities: Causation

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Tags: after the breakup of the body, applying theory to life, dependent arising, kamma, liberation, morality, reality check, rebirth
Posted in causation, kamma, paticca samuppada, Possibilities, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 2 Comments »

Revisiting Dona the Brahmin

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Tags: atta, Buddha, Gandharan scrolls, human, humor, transcendent, word context
Posted in AN 4.36 Dona Sutta, bhavissatī, Buddhist History, Dona the Brahmin, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 7 Comments »

Where One Becomes One’s Natural Self

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Tags: dependent arising, kamma, Pali, translation
Posted in AN 3.34, apare, Bhikkhu Bodhi, diṭṭheva dhamme, pariyāya, paticca samuppada, Rebirth, SN 12.46, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 3 Comments »

Diṭṭheva Dhamme As The Way We See Things For Ourselves

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Tags: flexible words, Gombrich, Pali, rebirth, translation
Posted in AN 10.208, Bhikkhu Bodhi, direct experience, diṭṭheva dhamme, Maurice Walshe, Richard F Gombrich, Translating | 1 Comment »

The Causes Of Three Kinds of Results of Karma

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

Tags: after the breakup of the body, fruit and result of good and bad actions, intention, kamma, pleasant painful neutral, rebirth, right view, translation, wrong view
Posted in apare, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, diṭṭheva dhamme, MN 136, pariyāya, Rebirth, Translating, vedana | 8 Comments »

No Escape

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Tags: Buddha, flexible words, fruit and result of good and bad actions, intention, kamma, Pali, rebirth, translation, word context
Posted in AN 10.208, apare, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Brahma Vihara, Brahminism, diṭṭheva dhamme, F.L. Woodward, pariyāya, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | No Comments »

Addendum to “I am not a man,” the Buddha said.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Tags: Buddha, Pali, rebirth, TED.com, translation
Posted in AN 4.36 Dona Sutta, bhava, Buddhist Vocabulary, Dona the Brahmin, Rebirth, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Translating | 6 Comments »