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Explain what Buddhism has to say about materialism
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I also asked 2 other tulkus if they remembered their past lives and they didn't.
Thanks so much Jeff See, now that's being open.
You have added nothing above, apart from admitting your "level of delusion".
There is no evidence whatsoever. Just like when child lamas are chosen, the only reason it is only children who have supposed past life recollections is because religious zealots with psychic powers control the children's minds by transmitting thought messages into the children's minds.
Once the children become older, those with psychic powers do not do this because it will be too mentally conflicting for the older child or person.
The Venerable Sariputta, who was a master of jhana & who's mind was more lucid that the other arahants, did not acquire any special powers from his jhana.
This is unrelated to "past lives" but simply demonstrates your rhetoric in relation to jhana.
Whatever is observed by the mind between the 3rd & 4th jhanas are merely mental formations.
Whether the mind flies thru the sky like a bird in jhana, in exotic places, is still just mental formations.
For example, when we sleep, we may dream, of places & people we do not know in our ordinary daily lives.
These dreams are mental formations. They are merely the imaginings of the mind. The Buddha taught such sankhara are void of substance, like a banana tree that has no inner core or heartwood.
I can only say your mind is beguiled, what the Buddha called "chewed up".
Your mind is lost in magic rather than realised how to end suffering.
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You bring up Sariputta, but what about Moggallana? Do I need to say more? He did have special insight into other realm activity, and it's mentioned in the Suttas.
You are reading into the suttas and not letting them offer more. Ending suffering means delving into your unconscious and seeing the links that manifest conscious suffering.
You have many pre-conceptions which delude your reading of the suttas. You talk about psychic powers? You have lots of projections. Just do your inner work... that is all.
I am merely offering my own experience to help. Your take on them is your own.
My Jhana experience is not limited to the lower 4.
Not all mental formations are delusional.
But all regarding mental formations as "I", "me" & "mine" is delusional.
You are so adamant you are right that you will not listen to any others here, nor any Buddhist monks. That's fine and you shall reap the results of that behaviour. Having failed to listen to them, I can do no more to help you.
I wish you well on your path.
Metta,
Vangelis
About his recollection of his own former existences, Moggallana spoke only once, in the 50th Discourse of the Middle Length Discourses. Like the 49th discourse, this is probably mere anti-Brahmin propaganda, composed after the Buddha.
Ending suffering means abandoning attachment & craving and realising the three charactertistics, as prescribed in the 1st & 2nd sermons of the Buddha.
In the Susima Sutta, the arahants declared their wisdom is via wisdom rather than knowledge of past lives (when they were questioned).
Your offerring is 100% rejected. Lol. How deluded is your mind to regard yourself as a guru.
It seems you are part of a cycle of brainwashing, wishing to brainwash others, like in a religious cult.
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Also, by what you say, already reaching at labels... which is fine, but possible mis-conclusions on your side?
Maybe I'm making mis-conclusions, but who are you to judge so abruptly? I'm just saying, you have not made any statements revealing the possibility that I am right, only that I am wrong... how is that a revelation of openness? There are other conclusions that could be made? Jeffery seems to be open to all sorts, until he has his own experience as verification. So I complimented him on this.
I think you have an understanding that is liberating to you, but you are incorrectly applying the 'I, me, mine' notion to another person with a different experience and it doesn't fit the situation.
I could equally refute the statement 'I read in suttra 56b' because you also use 'I' And if you don't use I instead using it then that implies that to follow the buddhist path reading is unneccesary since 'it' is the only importance and not 'I'. Rangtongpa :nyah:
Though, through depth of experience in jhana and contemplation, one does gain confidence that does transcend physical limitations, that is for sure.
It's amazing what the mind will believe though, this is true! Including deeply subjective verification, thought of as objective that there are no past or future lives for oneself, as if non-existence existed?
"My Jhana experience is not limited to the lower 4."
Well I think many of us know what the Buddha and offline teachers have to say about people who announce their supposed attainments publicly.
No need to say any more really - except good luck with your 'experience' !
Why not imagine the possibility that I am right? Why does the human mind always go to the dark, lean to the dark, lean towards imaginings of corruption? It's an interesting phenomena in my opinion worth consideration.
You need to help yourself friend. My kamma abides with samma ditthi.
My mind has reaped the results of its views, from the first day i learned Buddhism, which is to practise to abandon all clinging & to penetrate the reality of impermanence & emptiness.
But you friend, reap what you sow, which is more "rebirth" becoming.
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Your mind needs to go beyond viewing everything as karma.
This is mere lokiya dhamma, mundane, only one aspect of the path, morality.
Buddha taught the karma that ends karma, namely, emptiness.
There is no 'doer' of karma. There is simply mental activity, be it created by ignorance or created by wisdom.
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If we read the VM, we will read Buddhagosa dedicated it to his rebirth in a Brahmin heaven.
Buddhagosa was not an arahant. His misunderstanding of Dependent Origination is testament to that.
But you appear to be declaring you are an enlightened being, just like Vajraheart.
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In Theravada, when the Buddha said narahant still speaks "I" and "mine" in conventional social interaction, he did not regard this as 'samsara'.
The Buddha regarded samsara is being fettered by ignorance & hindered by craving.
The Buddha regarded nirvana as the cessation of greed, hatred & delusion.
The reported views of the Buddha do not correlate with those of Nargajuna.
As inoccous as if we were talking about italian coffee and I said "my brother said Lavazza is good". Brother knows best?