notes on the Dhamma

   4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦 4👑☸  →  EBpedia📚  →  saddha        Saddha: justifiable-trust . .  saddha : justifiable-trust ✅ justifiable-trust, earned-trust, justified-confidence, provisional-trust. See how saddha is earned in  MN  95 ⛔ saddha is not 'blind faith', 'blind belief', 'unverified confidence' Don’t ‘have faith’. Award ‘earned-trust’ judiciously and revoke when necessary. Saddha: earned-trust, verified confidence, provisional trust, justifiable trust. Don’t ‘have faith’. Give ‘earned-trust’ judiciously and revoke if broken. opposite of saddha: blind faith, blind belief In a loose sense, ''faith' is a valid translation, but highly inadvisable to use in  EBT . As one delves deeper into the EBT, it becomes evident that like critical terms “dukkha”, “arahant”, etc., “saddha” gets a stricter more nuanced redefinition than the pre-Buddhist meaning of the word. A majority of the world follow religions understand ‘faith’...

https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/nyanadhammo_the_spiritual_faculties.pdf massaged into EZ-Reader format from lame PDF format above. Has cool story of his interaction with Ajahn Chah. THE SPIRTUAL FACULTIES Venerable Ajahn Nyanadhammo The Spiritual Faculties by Venerable Ajahn Nyanadhammo Edited from a Dhamma talk given by Ajahn Nyanadhammo at Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery (june 1998) in Sussex, Southern England. Copyright c© 2003 The Sa ˙ngha, Wat Pah Nanachat For free distribution “It is the spirit of d¯ana, freely offered generosity, which has kept the entire Buddhist tradition alive for more than 2,500 years.” Sabbad¯anam dhammad¯anam j¯ın¯ati ’The gift of Dhamma excels all gifts’ This computer-edition of ’The Spiritual Faculties’ may be freely copied and redistributed electron- ically, provided that the file contents (including this agreement) are not altered in any way and that it is distributed at no cost to the recipient. You may make printed copies of this work for your ...

A friend asked these questions: have you came across a definitive reference for what marks path vs fruit attainments? How is everyday life different after stream entry? what is the connection between dhamma eye and non abiding mind/perception of impermanence? What is it like to drop sakkayaditthi? Non abiding might be a Mahayana word but it’s related to the saying in mn62 meditate like space for space is not established anywhere. Study the self, forget the self, actualized by all things. It’s also related to centerlessness and these terms are used to describe stream entry sakkāyadiṭṭhi defn. from DPD: view that one is an embodied being; belief in self-identity;  the view that this mind-body complex is an independent entity [sakkāya + diṭṭhi] ✔ Frankk response: MN 62 (my slightly annotated version of it) https://lucid24.org/mn/main/mn062/index.html#62 I would say in MN 62, if you look in context at the all 5 elements (4 elements + space), all 5 elements, not just space, the Buddha e...

 

❌Failure ✅Success

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  appropriate for all ages. click on any image to go into full screen gallery mode. the goal here, is to destroy cognitive dissonance people have, even serious monastics, yogis, meditators. the reason you fall for the sign (nimitta) of subha (beauty), is because you don't train yourself to see both simultaneously; both subha and asubha (beauty + ugliness). You don't investigate the causes for that, the arbitrary conditions which produce your volatile, unstable, highly fleeting perception of subha.  You're either in asubha or subha mode, either trying to conquer desire/lust/passion, or just falling asleep at the wheel and just completely being fooled and taken in by subha nimitta. The goal is to always be lucidly-discerning (sampajāno) all the time, not just a few times a day. (sati "mindfulness" is defined as having both sati/remembrance faculty and discernment/wisdom faculty) So if you find yourself being fooled by subha,  1) at the very least acknowledge, don...

frankk comment: I love how Ajahn Chah can make what seems like profound unattainable states accessible and doable right now.     https://lucid24.org/tped/c/chah/index.html#3.89 3.89 - Awakening to the Cobra Most of us, when we hear the words, “awakening to the Dhamma,” understand that it’s something so high and far away that we probably won’t awaken in this lifetime. That’s how we understand things. Actually, if something is evil and we don’t clearly see that it’s evil, then we can’t abandon it. That means we haven’t awakened much to the Dhamma. But if we listen, contemplate, and practice until we see it clearly, we’ll see the drawbacks for sure that that thing is evil and we won’t dare ever do it again. We won’t dare store it up as seeds to plant again. ...

Ajahn   Chah  3  - It’s Like This 3.39 - Eating the Hook When people are deluded, they deludedly see that hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, and skin are wonderful things. Beautiful. It’s like a fish biting a hook. Whether it’s biting the hook or biting the bait, it doesn’t know. It wants to bite the bait, but what comes into its mouth is the hook, snagging its mouth so that the fish can’t get away. No matter how much it wants to get away, it can’t. It’s stuck. it can’t. It’s the same with us: When we see hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, and skin, we like them. We fall for them—and we’re already stuck on their hook. By the time we realize what’s happened, it’s already hooked into our mouth. It’s hard to get away. If we think about getting away to ordain, we’re worried about our children, our belongings—worried about all kinds of things. And so we don’t get away. We stay right there until we die. This me...