kāya saṁkhāra, vacī saṁkhāra, citta saṁkhāra. Comment of Bhikkhu Katukurunde Ñāṇananda:- Coming back to our subject saṁkhāra, we see it occurs as the second factor in the Paṭicca Samuppāda, following avijjā. You know we have many a time repeated and so on. The Buddha has himself given a clarification of the term saṁkhāra, in the …
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Oct 15
The Transformations of Mindfulness – Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi
One was that the evening talks seldom related the practice of mindfulness meditation we were engaged in during the day to the actual teachings of the Buddha. Exception made of some excellent talks in a more traditional style by Joseph Goldstein, the teachers said virtually nothing about the backdrop to the practice of mindfulness meditation …
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Oct 01
Mindfulness (සතිමත්බව)
අද විලාසිතාවක් බවට පත්වී ඇති බහුතරයක් බෞද්ධයන් වරද්දවාගත් බටහිර ගැති “සතිමත් බව ‘ බුදු දහමේ මුල් උරුමය සහිත බහුතරයක් ලාංකිකයන්ට තේරුම් නොගිය සතිය (mindfulness) සතු වටිනාකම බටහිර ජාතීන්ට මනා සේ අවබෝධ වෙමින් පවතින ආකාරය දැන් දැන් පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. ඔවුන් සතිය පුහුණුවේ මූලික අරමුණ වන නිවන අරමුණු නො කළත් එදිනෙදා ජීවිතයේ ඇති දුක, කළකිරීම් රෝගපීඩාදියෙන් …
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Aug 14
The Lotus and the Fire – Bhikkhu Katukurunde Ñāṇananda
If the life of the emancipated sage is a puzzle for us, his death is even more puzzling. What becomes of him when he passes away — does he exist or does he not? Both conjunctively or neither disjunctively? This, as we saw earlier, was one of the problems which found expression in four of …
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Aug 03
Sappurisa Sutta – Uparipannasapali,Anupadavaggo,Majjima Nikaya
සප්පුරිසසුත්තං – මජ්ඣිමනිකාය » උපරිපණ්ණාසපාළි » අනුපදවග්ගො මෙම සූත්රයේ සවිස්තරව පැහැදිලි කර ඇති පරිදි ශික්ෂණය අවසානයේ මඤ්ඤනා කිරීමට තුඩුදෙන අනුසයෙන් පවා මිදී සඤ්ඤ වෙදයිත නිරෝධ සමාපත්තියට පත්වීමට මග සලසයි. සටහන අවසන් ” සප්පුරිසො ච ඛො, භික්ඛවෙ , ඉති පටිසඤ්චික්ඛති – ‘නෙවසඤ්ඤානාසඤ්ඤායතනසමාපත්තියාපි ඛො අතම්මයතා වුත්තා භගවතා. යෙන යෙන හි මඤ්ඤන්ති තතො තං හොති අඤ්ඤථා’ති. සො අතම්මයතඤ්ඤෙව අන්තරං කරිත්වා තාය නෙවසඤ්ඤානාසඤ්ඤායතනසමාපත්තියා …
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Aug 03
Muni is silent even when he does speak.
The ‘Muni’ is silent not only when he does not speak; he is silent even when he does speak. . Hence the seemingly incongruous statement of the Buddha: “Monks, I do not dispute with the world; it is the world that disputes with me.” Not only the Buddha, but the emancipated monk, too, has no …
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Jul 16
URAGA-JĀTAKA
Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born in a brahmin household, in a village outside the gates of Benares…… He had two children, a son and a daughter. When the son was grown up, the father brought a wife home for him from a family of equal rank …
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Jun 12
Alagaddūpama Sutta – Opamma Vagga, Muulapannasapali, Majjhima Nikāya
අලගද්දූපමසුත්තං – මජ්ඣිමනිකාය » මූලපණ්ණාසපාළි » ඔපම්මවග්ගො » 238 “මහණෙනි, මේ ශාසනයෙහි ඇතැම් හිස් පුරුෂයෝ සූත්ර ගෙය්ය, වෙය්යාකරණ, ගාථා, උදාන, ඉතිවුත්තක, ජාතක, අද්භූතධර්ම, වෙදල්ල යන ධර්ම ඉගෙනගන්නාහුය. ඔහු ඒ ධර්ම ඉගෙන ඒ ධර්මයන්ගේ අර්ථය නුවණින් සලකා නොබලන්නාහුය. නුවණින් අර්ථය සලකා නොබලන්නාවූ ඔවුනට එය හොඳින් නොවැටහෙයි. ඔව්හු අන්ය වාදවලට දොස් දැක්වීමේ හෝ තමන්ගේ වාදය අන්යයන්ගේ දෝෂාරොපනයෙන් නිදහස් කරගැනීමේ හෝ අදහසින් …
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Dec 10
The Law of Dependent Arising (Paṭicca Samuppāda)- Library Edition, Bhikkhu Katukurunde Ñāṇananda
The Buddha, soon after his enlightenment, reflected on the depth of the Dhamma he had realized. He saw two points in this Dhamma that transcends logic (atakkāvacara), which it is difficult for the worldlings immersed in defilements to see. One is the Law of Dependent Arising (Paṭicca Samuppāda) or conditionality (idappaccayatā). The other is Nibbāna …
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Oct 13
The great betrayal of Theravada Buddhism? – Prof. M. M. J. Marasinghe
The story raises several questions. First, the story of an Anandabodhi is out of context here as it is not found in the original Kalingabodhi Jataka Pali which Buddhaghosa was commenting on. Second, the statement that people went to see the Buddha carrying flowers and incense and being disappointed when they found that the Buddha …
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