Questions tagged [papanca]
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Can a puthujjana have unshakable faith in the Buddha-Dhamma?
I read the following on the internet:
According to my present understanding of Dhamma, nobody will be able
to shake my faith.
Can a puthujjana (unenlightened commoner still immersed in self instinct) have unshakable faith in the…
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Can students evaluate qualifications and accept a person as their teacher?
Assuming students are unenlightened, how can students have the chance to evaluate qualifications and accept a person as their teacher?
For example, recently there have been more sexual misconduct issues with famous teachers, such as Sogyal…
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Is insisting on calling “consciousness” a real thing appropriate?
Someone who likes to ask rhetorical questions on the internet once questioned whether it was appropriate to describe “consciousness” as a reification since in one sutta (MN 43) it is said that consciousness and wisdom/enlightenment were conjoined:…
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What is a "standalone sankhara" vs " composite phenomena"?
I read the concepts of "standalone sankhara" vs " composite phenomena" on the internet.
Do these two concepts have any basis in any school/s of Buddhism? If so, which one/ones?
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Is forgiveness a fruit of evil wicked kamma?
I read the following on the internet:
Yet there were still a few who could not forget that Angulimala the
bandit, with his superior prowess, had shown them in their weakness
and thus had humiliated them. Out of that resentment, as an act of
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Do the suttas say the "old kamma" of an Arahant continues to fruit?
I read the following on the internet:
But when the view of "self" ends, kamma also ends Is that plausible?
Are you saying that kamma is conditioned by self-view? And saying that
kamma -- the fruit of old kamma and the creation of new kamma --…
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Are we born on this Earth because of our personal kamma?
I read the following words on the internet:
A person ends making Kamma when he becomes an Arahant. The Vipaka of his Kamma continues until he attains Parinibbana.
These words appear to say it was a personal act of kamma of a person that resulted…
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Is the "life force" and the "breathing" the same thing?
I read the following comment on the internet:
A corpse has lost its life-force, hence a corpse, dead. A meditator has attainment would be free from disease, for the vibrant
internal-breath kept one healthy.
Are there any suttas that distinguish…
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Dhammaṭṭhitatā and Dhammaniyāmatā versus "Ontology" & "Phenomenology"
In AN 3.136 and SN 12.20, it is said the Three Characteristics and that suffering arises via Dependent Origination are "sā dhātu, dhammaṭṭhitatā dhammaniyāmatā", namely:
law of nature, regularity of natural principles, invariance of natural…
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Did the Thai monk Bhikkhu Buddhadasa teach Anapansati incorrectly?
I read the following comment on the internet:
Buddhadasa, his health
failed him revealed he had no attainment in "Anapanasati", though
written 550 pages on it. He was just a Bhikkhu-scholar groomed by
Theosophical Society, his teaching…
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