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How does the śrāvaka stream-entrant differ in his realization from the bodhisattva stream-entrant other than the former theoretically missing the foundations of bodhicitta? investigating their practice the most salient difference is that one following mahayana doctrine will inevitably cultivate sel...

Aemilius wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:19 pm ...
In entering the stream therein is found no dharma or concept of "entering the stream".

it´s like jumping from one patch of space in space to next patch of space in space. Nothing is entered. nothing left behind, so only sravakas enter from one illusion into another.

So i want to know: what exactly is the first, most fundamental concept i need to realize first if i atleast want to reach the first stage of awakening in this life? Thanks again! Stream Entry is a sravaka concept. The most fundamental concepts in that context are self-identity views, attachment to ...

no concept

[mod note: topic split from here https://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?p=541014#p541014 ] "... For that reason, Sariputra, liberation is taught without leaving behind letters. ..." (trans. Takagi + Dreitlein, 2011 pp81) ... McRae (BDK ed, p 128): '...Therefore, Śāriputra, the explanation ...

It's strange to associate emptiness with nihilism because it can't be emptiness that is associated with nihilism. There is no partial emptiness but nihilism would require a partial emptiness.

Compassion does not have the power to liberate. This isn't a thread about liberation via compassion. It is a thread about sunyata and nihilism. ...................... A tremendous amount of effort to put boundaries around the inclusion of compassion in a talk about Sunyata. I don't understand the b...

Rick wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 5:54 pm ...What does an omniscient Buddha know: the true nature of reality, the vector of each particle-wave, all events in all locations in all times?

According to Abhisamayalamkara: all phenomena ('the All'), all paths and all aspects (or 'modes').

How would you translate 'eradicating the traces that cause birth in samsara' into non-Buddhist terms? Maybe 'eradicating all unease and/or sorrow and/or mental suffering'. That should be understandable without being conditioned by buddhist doctrine, right? Same for 'omniscience.' Being able to reac...

So even in a state of mind that is not normally thought of as practice, the default mode network = daydreaming and mind-wandering, you are reinforcing your view that appearances are real, because that is the underlying assumption in DMN. Check the advice of prajnaparamita in terms of practice. It i...

In fact, the meaning is just the opposite. Beware of extremes. The experience of samsara is that the mind constitutes a “self”. Really? The teachings explain that the mind is not a “self”. What teachings? Since that is the truth concerning the nature of the mind, :roll: It's impossible to stop the ...

The phrase “true self” is a somewhat misleading abbreviation, because there is no intrinsically existing true “self”. What should be referred to is the true nature of the self, which is to say the true nature of mind, which is the naturally awakened state. It means, “who are you really? ” Are “you”...

Is practice more to establish new 'right' habits or drop old 'un-right' habits? If the former, does this run the risk of trading one form of non-freedom for another? Practice is a skillful means that appears to conceit to support the conducive illusion of progress or regress. Is it my conceit or yo...

Rick wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:15 pm Is practice more to establish new 'right' habits or drop old 'un-right' habits?

If the former, does this run the risk of trading one form of non-freedom for another?

Practice is a skillful means that appears to conceit to support the conducive illusion of progress or regress.

Hazel wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:41 am I see a red ball. It rolls away. What happened to my awareness of the ball?

How could something happen to the not-happened?

shanyin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:31 pm

SteRo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:34 am

shanyin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:07 am Can someone explain what one's true self is?

One's non-true self.

Or one's non-soul self? Me that exists in emptiness?

non-true conceit staging its own mock show.

shanyin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:07 am Can someone explain what one's true self is?

One's non-true self.

standard Mahayana, I guess

PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:13 am If a Buddha is in a constantly awakened state, does he or she experience insomnia?

No experience.

dependent arising is not in that list. I feel it as a slightly different term to "emptiness". Isn´t there another sanscrit term where "dependent origination" comes from? Different from shunyata, I mean? "dependent arising" is a skillful means and equated with "emp...