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13 questions linked to/from How to interpret "cessation"?
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What is effluent?
The Brahmana Sutta, for example, mentions "effluent":
So it is with an arahant whose mental effluents are ended ...
Or in Adhimutta,
One gone to the far shore
without clinging
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Did the Buddha have intention (cetana)?
After attaining Nibbana, did the Buddha still have intention (cetanā)?
In SN 12.2, intention is part of name in name-and-form. In SN 12.38 (quoted below), it sounds like intention is removed in an ...
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Parinibbāna in secular Buddhism
I take it that an important claim of secular Buddhism is that the Buddha never actually taught literal rebirth.
What happens during parinibbāna according to secular Buddhism? How is it different from ...
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Why are we "trapped" in cyclic rebirth?
If we are trapped in Cyclic Rebirth, we are then being held against our will..
If we are being held against our will, who or what has set this trap?
If I escape, where am I escaping to?
As with all of ...
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What is the true meaning of Kaya Sankhara, Vaci Sankhara and Citta Sankhara
I am trying to find a right description of the word Sankhara in dependent origination which includes Kaya Sankhara, Vaci Sankhara and Citta Sankhara.
I have not been able to understand what they mean. ...
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How do the concepts of anatta, rebirth and karma coexist together?
Although I have read quite a lot of books about Buddhism, almost all of them were meant for the Western layman so I consider myself to be a beginner compared to most of you here. I hope you can ...
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when one Citta perishes,from where does the next arise?
Anatman/Anatta says that the 'self'is a momentary flux of Cittas-Vijnanas.There can be no stable permanent Citta,in kshanabhangavada a dharma perishes before its successor arises.one citta arises then ...
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Difference between aggregates and clinging-aggregates?
What's the difference between the five aggregates and the five clinging-aggregates?
For e.g. is the aggregate of form referring to the physical body, but the clinging-aggregate of form is a tainted ...
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Have Arahants have eliminated all Sankhara?
I read on the internet:
Arahants have eliminated all Sankhara. So there is no need for
accumulation of memory.
Have Arahants really eliminated all Sankhara?
Please answer with Pali sutta ...
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Is emptiness conventionally non-empty?
Is emptiness conventionally / provisionally non-empty? Please include reference to whose perspective you are replying from.
By empty I mean non-substantial, how dharmas are constantly arising and ...
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How buddha came back to his human consciousness if consciousness and fabrication ceases after release
QN 1: After complete cessation of consciousness, how did the Buddha come back to human consciousness?
If he can come back, isn't it not a complete release?
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The Final Moment of the Buddha's Realization
“Siddhartha Gotama sat for one last time under the pipul tree with the adiṭṭhāna that he would not get up till he became realized. He battled the beautiful as well as the ugly and fearful illusions of ...
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What happens to consciousness/awareness when entering Paranirvana?
If consciousness/awareness as the 5th skandha is impermanent (?), shouldn't it cease to exist when entering Paranirvana?
But in SN 22.53 the Buddha says:
"If a monk abandons passion for the ...
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