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What aggregate is focus part of?
If my neighbor is real loud, I focus on the noises. It's a sort of involuntary focus. I would like to be able to detach myself from this focus.
Until now, I thought focus is part of the 'perception' ...
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What is personality view?
Thoughts about mine and things should be in this way,about children ,husband and relatives,it's the personality view. That is developed in our own mind.so we inflicted our own wounds. So we were in ...
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Is asceticism beneficial for attainments?
The Buddha advises that the middle way be taken.
The discussion around the middle way sounds to me like a "it is not needed to be so krass" type view on asceticism.
But is it still ...
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Does EBT suggest a collocation of dukkha?
The three kinds of suffering as mentioned in SN45.165 :
[1] Suffering caused by pain,
[2] suffering caused by the formations
[3] suffering due to change.
Does the EBT (and elsewhere) suggest, or ...
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What is the true meaning behind pinpotha
As i was told pinpotha is a traditional book used by sri lankan lay people. It is used to keep a track of all the good things they do. I made a digital version of pinpotha (epinpotha.lk). Can someone ...
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Is there a concept of a "sensation of self/me/mine"?
Is there a term or concept for 'feeling' like there's a "me", or for 'feeling' like something "belongs to myself"?
Recently I was able to distinguish between two types of feelings, ...
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How to measure progress on the path of dhamma?
Sometimes the meditation is good and sometimes it is chaos. I follow the eightfold path as much as I can. I feel the progress is solely dependent on 'samma samadhi'. I dont have ill will or anger or ...
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Influence of Different schools on Western Therapies, and how to approach Personal Choice?
After a prolonged struggle with various eating disorders (atypical, anorexia, bulimia, BED) over nearly two years, as well as ongoing mood disorders and severe anxiety for the past three, I've found ...
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Is there a tradition within Buddhism of praying in an easterly direction?
Is there a tradition within Buddhism of praying in an easterly direction? If there is what is the oldest known reference to it.
Sorry for the simplicity of the question, but I am not a Buddhist.
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Anatta contemplation is about a clear understanding of egolessness. Does this insight come from Dhammanupassana?
So far as I understand the terminology, there are two levels of knowledge:
"conceptual knowledge" like "man" and "woman"
"ultimate reality" like the five ...
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Root cause of anxiety
So, I have a strong hunch that there must be a root emotional cause of anxiety and not in a worldly manner (*like not related to one's life story). More like an error in judgment of relation to ...
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Did any Buddhist philosophers respond to Udayanacharya’s refutations of Buddhist doctrines?
It is commonly claimed in Nyaya and Vedanta circles that Udayanacharya brought an end to the long-standing philosophical debate between Buddhist thinkers and Vaidika traditions. His works, such as ...
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Did Mahamaya, the Buddha's birth mother, reach parinirvana after receiving teachings from the Buddha in the God Realm of the thirty-three. >
Mahamaya is the birth mother of Siddhartha. After her death, after giving birth, she is said to have gone to the God Realm of the 33 where later she received teachings from the Buddha. She is also ...
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Do there Materialistic world?
Outside world is there without mind?outside world create only by mind. Actually there is no materialistic world. Is this correct?
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Why Buddhists do not force people to join and meditate?
Cartels in Mexico force people to join and if they try to escape they kill them. Why don't people who achieve Nirvana care to make everyone in the world like them?
