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Can anyone explain Sanskara / Sankara in depth?
There's an article in English titled Anicca Vata Sankhara in which Bhikkhu Bodhi describes the various meanings of the word. Here are very brief extracts from that article, a summary:
The word ...
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Which word is more suitable for describing reality?
Reality is a word that has two opposite meanings:
Sentient being's subjective reality, known in the modern semiotic science as "Umwelt", is the world a sentient being finds itself in: a ...
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Who is responsible for making sankharas impermanent?
Sankhara is a compounded phenomenon. That is, it is a phenomenon which is composed of other things. It is a phenomenon which arises based on causes and conditions. It is not a thing- it is an ...
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Who is responsible for making sankharas impermanent?
I think the doctrine is that a person could assume there is such a thing as "me" -- but that, if they do then that's not a useful/helpful theory, it's misleading.
Instead we're encouraged to ...
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What is the difference between papanca and sankhara, and in particular citta-sankhara?
yes it is not easy. First people say that there are 2 triplets of sankaras : (kayasankhara, vacisankhara, mano sankhara) and (kayasankhara, vacisankhara, cittasankhara). they claim that they are not ...
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Removing sankharas
You can't really remove sankharas, but you can have them wither and fade, as you build new ones. How? By not feeding them with obsessive thinking. The less you think certain thoughts, the more the ...
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Two interpretations of the three levels of suffering, Dukkha Sutta and Tibetan
The words in SN 38.14 are not even attributed to Buddha, they are Sariputra's. I don't know why Theravada took them as the basis of their analysis.
Instead, the authoritative definition of dukkha is ...
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Why is there something instead of nothing?
This sounds like the type of philosophical questions that is mentioned in the Acintita Sutta:
Conjecture about [the origin, etc., of] the world is an
unconjecturable that is not to be conjectured ...
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How can I accept losing control of my mind and will?
Fighting fear makes it grow. Letting go of fear, it will disappear just as it arose. Fear is temporary. Temporary things are not worth clinging to:
MN62:3.2: “Rāhula, you should truly see any kind of ...
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Sankhara on a wave, a wood, and a rock?
That sounds like the simile in AN 3.130 below.
This describes three types of individuals and their anger. Anger is a sankhara (volition, mental formation).
"Monks, there are these three types of ...
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what is the right relationship of asrava and ignorance?
To me, asava/asrava is a name of a fermented alcoholic drink popular in the Buddha times. He uses it metaphorically to indicate intoxicants sustaining the drunken mind of samsara.
There are three ...
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Which word is more suitable for describing reality?
Reality is called "the world".
Whatever in the world through which you perceive the world and
conceive the world is called the world in the training of the Noble
One. And through what in ...
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Who is responsible for making sankharas impermanent?
It's simply a universal law. No one designed it that way.
“Monks, whether Tathāgatas arise or not, this aspect of the world
remains the same – this stable truth, this fixed truth: All
conditional ...
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Can anyone explain Sanskara / Sankara in depth?
I think this entire universe is made up of Sankara, which cannot be seen thorough our 5 senses(Vinyana-Perception).Also "San" means collection and "kara" means information. It is the collection of ...
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Can anyone explain Sanskara / Sankara in depth?
I recommend the book "How to Measure and deepen your spiritual realization" for the most modern analysis and cross correlations. It has been 15 years since i read this and i have not found anything ...
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Can anyone explain Sanskara / Sankara in depth?
Most in depth explanations happens in the Abhi Dhamma. There are 52 Cetasikas our of which 50 come under Sankara (with the exception of Feeling and Perception). Explaining the 50 would need a small ...
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How should the terms 'kaya, vaci & citta sankhara' be translated?
Sankara is conditioning which puts together or makes or forms something.
Kaya Sankhara - this what sustains keeps the body together hence the breath. If breathing stops the body falls apart.
Vaci ...
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Are all of the five aggregates saṅkhāras?
If all five aggregates are indeed saṅkhāras, then what is the aggregate called "formation" (saṅkhāra)?
Please read this answer for more info on sankharas based on Bhikkhu Bodhi's essay "Anicca Vata ...
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Are all of the five aggregates saṅkhāras?
-- "Are the five aggregates all saṅkhāras -- are they impermanent and dependently originated?"
In my understanding, it's the experience of "my life" that is a saṅkhāra - while the five aggregates (...
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Two interpretations of the three levels of suffering, Dukkha Sutta and Tibetan
Gethin, Foundations of Buddhism, footnote 4 on p. 282, lists these sources.
Visuddhimagga xvi. 34-5; Digha Nikaya iii. 216; Samyutta Nikaya iv. 259, v. 56; Nettippakarana 12.
The Visuddhimagga has ...
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