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Everyone practicing Buddhist meditation should have some experience with that. :p One rendering of the five faculties is: Pitchfork: Mindfulness String: Conviction <--> Discernment String: Ener… (View Post)
(Quote) I see the logic, so I’d say the practices are less sequential and more mutually supportive, like that hand-washing simile illustrating the relationship between ethical conduct and wisdom. Sti… (View Post)
(Quote) Analayo points out that the following Sutta, AN 4.96, elaborates on the meaning. It describes that type of person as one who practices to subdue their own passions but doesn't encourage other… (View Post)
(Quote) @David, wait! :lol: I wasn’t comparing abstract realities but throwing them all in the same bucket. All of them. That is, when @Shoshin says “Why there is no way back for religion in the west… (View Post)
I view Buddhism as the guidance of ancient sages with many old and new interpretations and traditions. The discourses give accounts of sages who were not disciples of the Buddha, spoke to him once, t… (View Post)