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Comment on MN 63 – Cula-Malunkyaputta Sutta by The No-Nonsense Buddha: Two Excerpts | The Way of Ordinary Wisdom

The No-Nonsense Buddha: Two Excerpts | The Way of Ordinary Wisdom — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:49:26 +0000

[...] From Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta (Source: http://dharmastudy.org/suttas-2/cula-malunkyaputta-sutta/) [...]

Comment on The Buddha’s Advice to Rahula by Dharma Study » Attachment

Dharma Study » Attachment — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:55:57 +0000

[...] that would result in his becoming the Buddha, bore him a child, a son, whom Gotama loved dearly. He named the boy Rahula, which means “fetter”, not because he wished to be rid of the child or because he wished to be rid of his love for the [...]

Comment on MN 72 – Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta by Dharma Study » Attachment

Dharma Study » Attachment — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:45:19 +0000

[...] is nourished by the fuel to which it clings. When the fuel is exhausted, the fire goes out. (In the Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta, the Buddha used the process as a graphic simile for the process of attaining nibbana [Sanskrit [...]

Comment on Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Four Noble Truths by Dharma Study » The Eightfold Path – the Factors Concerning Moral Virtue

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:51:09 +0000

[...] and Right Livelihood, taken as a whole, are understood as sila, virtue; together, they make up what Bhikkhu Bodhi considers the section on Moral Discipline. Most Buddhist commentaries consider these three Path factors to be, for most people, the starting [...]

Comment on AN 11.1.2 – Cetanakaranaya Sutta by Dharma Study » The Eightfold Path – the Factors Concerning Moral Virtue

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:44:17 +0000

[...] Path factors unfolding more or less naturally in her life. A short sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya, the Cetanakaranaya Sutta, The Discourse on How Things Progress, oulines the process, and is worth [...]

Comment on MN 63 – Cula-Malunkyaputta Sutta by Dharma Study » Change in plan for Friday’s class

Dharma Study » Change in plan for Friday’s class — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:19:33 +0000

[...] process. It also repeats, in a different form but with almost identical sense, the lesson of the Cula-Malunkyaputta Sutta that would have been the subject of our first class if I’d gotten [...]

Comment on SN 22.59 – Anattalakkhana Sutta by Dharma Study » Change in plan for Friday’s class

Dharma Study » Change in plan for Friday’s class — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:19:15 +0000

[...] break, I’d like to change the syllabus slightly. This coming Friday, instead of discussing the Annalakkhana Sutta—the Buddha’s discourse on the “not-self” characteristic, I’d like to [...]

Comment on Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Four Noble Truths by Dharma Study » The Eightfold Path – Right View and Right Resolve

Dharma Study » The Eightfold Path – Right View and Right Resolve — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:21:59 +0000

[...] Resolve”). In connection with that discussion, in addition to the relevant sections of Bhikkhu Bodhi’s online book and Ajahn Lee Dhammadaro’s essay, the following links will be most [...]

Comment on Dhamma by Dharma Study » Knowing Right from Wrong – Reflections on the Gotami Sutta

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:26:26 +0000

[...] first meaning of the term Dhamma is a truthful version of how things are, how things got this way, and what we should do about it. [...]

Comment on The Pali Canon by Dharma Study » The Pali Canon

Dharma Study » The Pali Canon — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:09:41 +0000

[...] be able to do is make relatively short work of reviewing the basics, which I’ve covered in a relatively short essay I wrote several years ago, have revised several times since, and is now pos…. Then we’ll use the bulk of the class for a more general discussion, in which we can air some [...]