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Even if there's no actor, there's still cause and effect. If I tell my child it's okay to steal bread in the bakery, he will likely go ahead and steal it. If I tell him it's bad, explain why etc. - th …

If there's a mapping, I never heard about it. But just from the common sense, you have to be a stream enterer just to start practicing meditation correctly. People do all kinds of wrong meditation and …

Your question is perfectly valid. In my understanding, the morality in Buddhism comes from a fundamental natural law of information/representation. Let me try and summarize it here. Sentient beings ex …

Update 2022. You don't experience Anatta. You just don't experience the illusion of self anymore. Original answer: I remember back in ~2001 I was very serious about this topic -- trying to experience …

According to this school, Peace can be realized momentarily through Sudden Enlightenment - an insight liberating from all mental projection of conflict. … This view is known as The Great Perfection and goes hand in hand with the view of intrinsic enlightenment exemplified by the hongaku tradition. …

A feeling like sadness would have to come from attachment to some sort of mental construct, right? Sadness does not come out of nowhere. For example, a regular person might think: "my mother was aroun …

Ted's is the best answer imo. To make his point even more explicit, "You're already enlightened" means "fundamentally you already are outside the Matrix, so you don't need to go anywhere". And "purify …

Buddha says Nibbana is ajātaṃ abhūtaṃ akataṃ asaṅkhataṃ. Nibbana is "not born by separating from something, not a result of something prior developing or transforming into it, not made via a deed, n …

What Buddha calls 'dukkha' (suffering, dis-harmony) comes from childish, primitive thinking (and action based on such thinking). As you said, we observe interactions, we figure out patterns and regula …

Obviously that entire text was authored by someone else, speaking about the Buddha in the third person. In my understanding, the part about the Buddha leaving the quarreling Sangha is based on real ev …

Enlightenment is not something you "see". It is more like a skill. Like riding a snowboard, you can't quite put it into words, but you once you have acquired it, you know how it works. … Enlightenment is a skill in the area of experiencing reality, shaping reality, and interacting with reality. A drug may show you some interesting sides of reality. …

If you're post stream-entry you should understand that "I" is not a thing, therefore your eating habits or weight problems are not your decision, they are part of your overall life style, your environ …

The power of the enlightenment is in being able to stop projecting the experience that makes one miserable. …

If you speak with any serious Buddhist teacher, they will tell you that they put their entire life, every second of every minute of every hour, to the service of enlightenment. …

Enlightened people do not overgeneralize. (This can be supported by both Pali Canon as well as Mahayana sources.) Concepts like "enlightened", "person", "I", and "thinking" are all overgeneralizatio …