Hi all Wondering how you would define in paramattha terms your understanding of peace of mind, and whether the Buddha or elders did so in the tipitika? It's a great thing to have, really provides a sh

Develop understanding of the nature of what is there, not just the word. Seeing sees, it is a reality which experieces an object. Hearing is a reality which experiences sound. This is the development

[edited version. with apologies] veneration to the sangha & respect for all learned scholars. 1. i am looking for suitable quotes affirming the teachings of elders that understanding of 'anicca' is ek

respected dhamma elders, regards and greetings. i am writing an analytical article on mere-bare awareness (ñāṇamattāya paṭissatimattāya) and am a bit stuck on one particular point. i am trying to unde

Dear Sarah, Thank you very much for the Phenasutta and further explanations. Nina.

Nina & all It was the Phena sutta we were referring to. I quoted from the commentary in my Zoom Jotting 112 (which will be in Dhamma Now 2): https://groups.io/g/dsg/message/170112 Here is an extract f

Friends In a recent Zoom session there was discussion about the meaning of “ adhiṭṭhāna ” as it appears in two quite different contexts in the teachings, namely: - as the pāramī (perfection) of that n

Acharn: Sound is sound, smell is smell, there must be the reality which experiences it. Any time it arises it experiences an object and then it is gone. It does not last, like seeing right now. Hearin

Hallo Sarah, Jon and other friends. No 'I' no 'me', no-one! Just cittas, cetasikas and rupas. Lobha/attachment attaches to objects which arise and then fall away, but Lobha does not know this because

Dear Phil, Perhaps you can appreciate Acharn’s words about absolute truth: Acharn: Life is not only seeing. Where is seeing right now? It is completely gone. The room is still the room, the table is s

Dear NIna, all (P.S to Sarah) In scanning my inbox a few days ago I saw that you had written (I am pretty sure) to my comments on the discourse that Bhikkhu Bodhi entitles "happy days" in one of his s

Dear all, Link to the audio of today's Zoom discussion (US): https://1drv.ms/u/s!AujD6qLjtvuOiCST6mXZ8benjHme (dhammahometv source video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFS5hA0AIwc And Sunday's Zoom

Friends We've uploaded a couple more edited short tracks of informal audio discussions - see below. All our edited audio discussions can be found here: https://www.dhammastudygroup.org/ Sarah & Jon In

Sarah: We have to come back to this moment to understand a little more what is true, what appears now. Otherwise we can just think about it. For example, what is heard? We think that Acharn’s voice or

Sarah: We talk about seeing and visible object, so that understanding can become firmer and directly understand what appears right now by conditions, at any time and in any place. It depends on accumu

Hi all This week's passage: As regards citta, all cittas are one khandha: viññāṇakkhandha. The Pāli terms viññāṇa, mano and citta are three terms for the same reality: that which has the characteristi

* * Confidence or Belief? Friends Azita wondered whether it had been with saddhā (confidence) with understanding in what she had heard or whether it was clinging with the belief that it would lead to

Azita, Tam, Vincent, Carmen, Alberto & all Ajahn and I have been arranging the schedule for the live discussions at the Foundation in Bangkok when Jon and I will be visiting. Some of you have told me

Hi all, this week's passage: As regards the fifty-two kinds of cetasika which may arise with citta, they are classified as three khandhas: the cetasika which is feeling (vedanā) is classified as one k

Friends (and Alberto in particular) I recently came across an older message (at https://groups.io/g/dsg/message/9744) which has since been cited a number of times for the following passage it contains