Unanswered Questions
120 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What are the other Theravada Councils held between the 4th and 6th
The Wikipedia entry on the 5th council says:
However, there were a number of other councils held in Ceylon and Thailand between the fourth and sixth ...
What are these other councils? Where where ...
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Looking for a Buddhist story about trust
I heard a Buddhist story about trust some time ago and am trying to locate it.
The story goes, there are some men travelling (I think) to a temple or monastery and on the way they get swindled and ...
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Does the Buddhist text Alankarabuddhi still exist?
As I discuss in this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy today is the Vedanta school, which is based on the philosophical portions of the Vedas. But in the time when Buddhism ...
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Is there a canonical reference for the story about the war between the Buddha's relatives?
I've been looking for a reference for the story of the conflict between Kosalan king Vidubhara and the Sakyans, that the Buddha tried to stop. There are several versions of this on the web, but none ...
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Help locating a widespread quote attributed to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
This quote is widely attributed to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche:
The bad news is, you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on
to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.
Among the ...
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AN 4.233 what exactly is the relation between kamma, saṅkhārā?
AN 4.233 sutta passage here in pali + english:
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-4233-what-exactly-is-relation.html
questions:
what exactly are those 3 sankharas (bodily, voice, mind)?...
Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena
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Re-orientation in my practice from Advaita to Buddhism
I have been studying Advaita Vedanta for some time now. I never really understood that Everything was conciousness and that consciousness is not a by product of my brain nor inside my mind and could ...
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Sati-Sampajañña and a quiet mind
Is it the case that a quiet mind can best execute Sati-Sampajañña because there are no interfering thoughts disturbing it?
If the answer is yes, should the main concern in day-to-day life be to ...
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How to ordain as a Theravada monk?
What is the most prominent way to ordain as a monk? Like who's involved, and how to contact the respective person to ordain?
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My explanation of six realms of existence
The six realms states of mind
This is my graphical interpretation of existence of six realms by Buddha.
I have attempted to decode the great concept of Buddhist teaching consider the state of mind ...
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Sankhara conditions vinjana dependent origination
When it is said in dependent origination that "sankhara conditions consciousness", in what way and how does sankhara condition consciousness?
And also, how is consciousness conditioning nama rupa? ...
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Meditation on Awareness : objects and phenomena vs Awareness
On http://media.sbinstitute.com/courses/spring2016/91/ , there is an Awareness-based meditation where we are invited to observe the various objects that we are aware off : thoughts, sounds, sensations,...
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MN 36 parallels for section where Buddha as a 9 year old boy has first jhana
I read up on B. Analayo's Agama comparative notes between the passage in question in various EBT schools (pali, more than one agama lineage, sanskrit...).
But he didn't have the part I'm interested ...
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Fearful of Compassion
I started practising compassion meditation, and initially it worked very well. Yet, I feel more averse to it than initially, and when I meditate I sometimes experience a kind of distorted facial ...
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If there be no soul or transmigrating entity that takes rebirth, who or what bears or enjoys the consequences or fruits of karma?
How can a religion or school of thought justify or rationalise the proposal that potential suffering could be inflicted on a subsequent rebirth - to all intents and purposes, a new individual, ...
