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The Buddhist Catechism

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024

Tags: action, addiction, beings, catechism, dependent arising, food, name-and-form, nutrient, Pali, self-view, smoking, translation, unskillful, Vedas, what everyone knows
Posted in AN 10.176, AN 10.27, AN 8.6, AN 9.24, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Brahminism, dependent origination, dhamma, direct experience, diṭṭheva dhamme, DN 15, dukkha, MN 10, MN 9, namarupa, paticca samuppada, SN 35.115, suffering and its end, Uncategorized, vedana | 1 Comment »

Insights During The Three Watches of the Night

Friday, January 8th, 2016

Tags: dependent arising, flexible words, kamma, Pali, rebirth, taints, translation
Posted in ayatana, causation, dhamma, dukkha, kamma, Rebirth, sankhara, Translating, Udana 1.1-.3, vedana | 2 Comments »

Arguing A New Theory (re: Mazel’s “Unpopular facts” about Dependent Arising)

Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Tags: Buddha, dependent arising, Pali
Posted in bhava, Bhikkhu Bodhi, context, dhamma, DN 15, paticca samuppada, responses to blogs &c, Thanissaro Bhikkhu | 7 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 »

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 | 4 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 »

What is Skeptical Buddhism?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Tags: Buddha, flexible words, kamma, Pali canon, sangha, Second Life, skeptical buddhism, word context, youtube
Posted in Buddhist Vocabulary, dhamma, Intro to SB, kamma, youtube | 2 Comments »