Category Archives: Buddhism

Cause of Suffering

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

Cutting Off the Causes of SufferingTo free ourselves from suffering fully and finally we have to eliminate it by the root, and that means to eliminate ignorance. But how does one go about eliminating ignorance? The answer follows clearly from … Continue reading →

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Samma Sati

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Chapter VI Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)The Buddha says that the Dhamma, the ultimate truth of things, is directly visible, timeless, calling out to be approached and seen. He says further that it is always available to us, and that the … Continue reading →

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samadhi

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The commentaries define samadhi as the centering of the mind and mental factors rightly and evenly on an object. Samadhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification. The … Continue reading →

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Wisdom found where?

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Chapter VIII The Development of Wisdom At the cognitive level, which is its most basic sphere of operation, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, thoughts, and views, so that we come to misconstrue our experience, overlaying it with multiple strata of delusions. … Continue reading →

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