Varapanyo Bhikkhu
Dhamma
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Our inner enemies
Right view
Beyond sakkāyaditthi or you are not the person
Empty is the world
Two conditions for the arising of right view
The Four Noble Truths
Brahmin - the noble life
Nibbāna - cessation of being
The Practice of Loving Kindness
The Buddha's words on action
Nanavira Thera on kamma - action
Discourses on Voidness
Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha
Sati-sampajañña
Dhamma & addiction
True health
Paramattha sacca
Upādāna
Atta or self
When a man dies, who is reborn—he or another?'
Contact
Nanavira Thera – Sankhāra
MN 38 - Mahātanhāsankhaya Sutta
Paticcasamuppāda
Māgandiya Sutta - MN 75
With determinations as a condition, consciousness
MN 1 – MŪLAPARIYĀYA SUTTA
Consciousness - viññāna
Sekha
Samādhi - concentration
Sabbe sattāhāraṭṭhitikā - All creatures subsist by nutriment
This is the Dhamma & thoughts of a great man
Eight worldly conditions
The Buddha on himself & what other people of the time who encountered him said of him
The penetrative exposition of the Dhamma
World
Suttas on ignorance
Sensual pleasures
So long as there are the thoughts 'I was born', 'I shall die', there is birth and death: so long as the five khandhā are sa-upādānā, 'somebody' becomes manifest and breaks up
Timeless everlasting NOW or beyond assumption that one has duration
As electricity is made up of positive and negative current – so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. – Turn off the current if you want quiet. – Yes, but where is the switch? – On Upekkhā.
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Saturday, July 20, 2024
Cioran - On the Verge of Existence
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Pirsig on Sidis
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Today now I want to take up the first phase of his journey into Quality, the nonmetaphysical phase, and this will be pleasant. It's nic...
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Gratitude or How to be religious
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Positive illusions
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The philosopher Peter Zapffe (d. 1990) argued that the human capacities for reason and self-awareness break with nature, giving us more than...
Kidding ourselves : the hidden power of self-deception
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Introduction Imagine putting on a white coat and being told that it belongs to a doctor. Now imagine putting on the same white coat and bei...
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