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17 questions linked to/from What is the basis?
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Why is the Buddha described as trackless?
In the Dhammapada, within the Buddhavagga section, the Buddha is described as being trackless.
By what track can you trace that trackless Buddha of limitless range,
whose victory nothing can undo,...
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Is nirvana a conceptual construction?
Is nirvana a conceptual construction - empty in that way? For any / only some Buddhists.
I'm just trying to figure out how extinction can avoid the extremes of eternalism and annihilation. If it is a ...
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When is it love? When is it attachment?
I have this misunderstanding about love and attachment as they relate to one another. It's hard to put in words, so I'll try with some examples first.
My understanding is that love is something you ...
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What is happiness?
Please don't tell book answer
Please don't tell Buddhist explain
Please give answers from your true experience
Buying car is happiness ?
Buying bike is happiness ?
Buying home is happiness?
Achieving ...
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Should there be a balance between sinful acts and virtuous acts in life?
From Buddhist perspective, should a balance be maintained between sinful acts and merits by a virtuous person?
if a virtuous person meditates for quite a number of hours during a day, and accumulates ...
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Can you explain “Wishlessness” (one of the Three Doors of Liberation)?
I am particularly interested in the relation between Wishlessness and Love. As far as I understand Wishlessness means that there is no suffering or ignorance as such. I'm mainly guiding myself by this ...
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How buddhists see/deal with Gaslighting?
I've had my share of gaslighting and have given it as well. To me there's this sort of limbo situation, where the undefinition is the abuse, where a person has the underlying feeling that something is ...
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3 marks of existence: conditioned vs unconditioned things?
The Wikipedia page for "the 3 marks of existence" differentiates between "conditioned things" and "unconditioned things" like so:
The three marks are:
sabbe saṅkhārā ...
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Are Habits a Kind of Attachment?
Some questions have already touched the nature of habits, namely in the sense of good habits or their benefits. This answer explains how attachment occur from a repeated desire to engage in the ...
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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?
And that state is just like the Dimension ...
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Is buddha's paths corrupt as no one attains the goal nowadays? (or are they?)
Anyone reaching nirvana in recent years?
People practise buddhism for many years but no one achieves nirvana. No one reaches anātman (pali: anattā). The only theories Buddhism offers are anātman, ...
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Are loving-kindness and compassion (metta and karuna) special kind of attachments?
To alleviate someone from suffering, Buddhism teaches one to practice mettā
karuṇā. But it seems to me that to thinking good about someone and wish them the best, we need to have a better version of ...
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Sequece of Meditation and Side Effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKOyV_pJ74
Refer to the image and video above, Venerable Guan Cheng explains that meditation should be practiced after proper moral virtue/Sila been achieved for the ...
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Does a Buddha see the heart objectively?
Does a Buddha or arahant like food and is mindful of that liking at all times or does liking just no longer arise? Does the Buddha like or dislike at the heart level and yet sees the heart objectively?...
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How do you contemplate delight you get due to action that leads to detachment?
Let us follow the unbeaten track, the dukkha in right action.
You see a man in need, you feel compassion, wishing him well you help him with his worldly need, then you feel delighted of your action....