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Understanding the Nature of Craving and the Physical Body
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Understanding the Nature of Craving and the Physical Body
desire and carried away by their craving, and who do nothing but please themselves, never remove themselves from…
The text discusses how craving ensnares individuals, likening them to a spider trapped in its web. It emphasizes …
The Nature of Suffering and the Pursuit of Happiness
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The Nature of Suffering and the Pursuit of Happiness
which they try to derive happiness are themselves of the nature of suffering. The suffering of such peop…
This text discusses how the pursuit of happiness through sense-pleasures results in suffering. It emphasizes that …
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
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The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering When the Lord Buddha had finished his explanation of the origin of suffering,…
This text explains the Buddha's teaching on the cessation of suffering, emphasizing the importance of extinguishing craving through the …
Understanding the Root of Suffering
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Understanding the Root of Suffering
…but to get rid of the suffering in a way that it will not grow up again, it is not enough simply to cut off the branches and the twigs — the tree must be completely uprooted — that is craving, the root…
The text discusses how to effectively eliminate suffering by addressing its root cause: craving. It likens the re…
Understanding Sensual Attachment and Overcoming Cravings
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Understanding Sensual Attachment and Overcoming Cravings
Our sense organs [aijhattikäyatana] are implicated in the attachment we have to sensual pleasures. If we want to extinguish the craving arising be…
Our sense organs play a crucial role in our attachment to sensual pleasures. To overcome this attachment, we must target both…
Understanding Sensory Craving and Attachment
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Understanding Sensory Craving and Attachment
registration is implicated in the attachment we have to sensual pleasures. Again, each of the six senses has its own chann…
This text delves into the role of sensory experiences in fostering attachment to sensual pleasures, with a focus on the six senses: visual, auditory, o…
The Noble Eightfold Path and Buddhist Sainthood
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The Noble Eightfold Path and Buddhist Sainthood
fold Path diligently to the extent they are prepared to lay down their life for their practice, have the chance to uproot craving from the mind by transcendental extinction — by attaining th…
This text discusses the profound dedication of practitioners of the Noble Eightfold Path, illustrating how some ar…
The Dhammakaya Tradition and Luang Phaw Wat Paknam
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The Dhammakaya Tradition and Luang Phaw Wat Paknam
practice of the Middle Way until attaining levels of Buddhist sainthood according to their potential. Al…
The practice of the Middle Way leads to various levels of Buddhist sainthood according to individual potenti…
The Path to Spiritual Enlightenment
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The Path to Spiritual Enlightenment
center of the Sphere of Concentration, the Sphere of Wisdom [paññā] will be attained. When we bring t…
This text outlines the spiritual progression as defined by the teachings of the Buddha, emphasizing the importance of concentration, wisdom, and the journey towards li…
Attaining the Angelic Body through the Middle Way
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Attaining the Angelic Body through the Middle Way
[vimuttīnādassana] will be attained. When the mind is brought to a standstill at the centre of the Sphere of the Seeing and Knowledge of Liberation the Angelic Body will be attained. By …
The text discusses the attainment of the Angelic Body through a process of concentration and the sequential progr…
Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Levels
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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Levels
reach the station, from there we take the train to the airport and eventually take the aeroplane that wi…
This text delves into the concept of the Dhamma Body, highlighting its intricate structure composed of multiple layers, each re…
Understanding the Dhammakāya in Insight Meditation
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Understanding the Dhammakāya in Insight Meditation
called the ‘Coarse Dhammakāya Arahant’ or the ‘Subtle Dhammakāya Arahant’ — the latter two being the …
This text delves into the concept of Dhammakāya Arahant, distinguishing between the Coarse and Subtle Dhammakāya. It explains t…
Understanding the Dhamma Body and Overcoming Mental Defilements
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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Overcoming Mental Defilements
to enslave the mind and how we can overcome them. This is a major difference from the naked (physical) eye to which the defilements …
The passage discusses the limitations of human senses in perceiving mental defilements such as greed, hatred, and de…
The Path to Nirvana: Understanding the Dhammakāya
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The Path to Nirvana: Understanding the Dhammakāya
with which his mind had been engrained for countless lifetimes polluting his thoughts, speech and actions — w…
This text discusses the purification of the mind through the teachings of the Buddha, emphasizing the importance o…
Understanding Nirvana: The Realm Beyond Existence
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Understanding Nirvana: The Realm Beyond Existence
…thout residual aggregates (Anupādisesa Nirvana [Nibbāna]) is the Nirvana that is a realm of “existence” outside our body and mind. Sometimes it is called ‘posthumous’ Nirvana because you can only go th…
This text delves into the concepts of Āyatanā Nibbāna and Anupādisesa Nibbāna, explaining that Nirvana exists beyond the physic
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
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The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering: A Conclusion The Lord Buddha taught that the cessation of suffering can be ef…
The conclusion on the cessation of suffering according to the Buddha highlights the need to extinguish cr…
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering
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The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering The final of the four Truths of the Noble Ones taught by the Lord Buddha was …
… Path, the final of the Four Noble Truths, is the way to eliminate suffering and attain Nirvana. It consists of eight components: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Liveliho…
The Path of Right Actions in Buddhism
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The Path of Right Actions in Buddhism
1. Right View The Buddha taught that Right View is a fiercely accurate understanding of life and the world based on the benchmark of Nirvana, a thorough under…
This text elaborates on essential aspects of Buddhism focusing on Right View, which is the accurate understanding framed by Nirvana and the…
The Noble Eightfold Path: Ethical Conduct and Mindfulness
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The Noble Eightfold Path: Ethical Conduct and Mindfulness
Stealing [adinnādāna]: Taking that which is not given; Committing adultery [kāmesumicccarā]: abstaining from sexual relations outside mar…
This text discusses key principles of the Noble Eightfold Path, focusing on ethical conduct such as Right Speech, …
Understanding the Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
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Understanding the Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
the centre of the body, in the same way as described earlier, in entering the centre of the Pathama Magga…
This text discusses the progression through successive inner bodies leading to the Dhammakāya, emphasizing the dis…