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avatar If jhana is total absorption without physical sensation, why is pain only abandoned in the fourth jhana? 248
avatar What do you think about Ven Thanissaro’s view on Nibbāna? 147
avatar Can someone explain this to me? "Dalai Lama Kiss & Tongue Controversy" 109
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avatar Book publications tease … 61
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avatar If jhana is total absorption without physical sensation, why is pain only abandoned in the fourth jhana? 409
avatar The experience of "Anatta" 164
avatar What do you think about Ven Thanissaro’s view on Nibbāna? 127
avatar How can nibbana be achieved if it is causeless and unconditioned? 124
avatar Can a Stream Enterer or even an Arahant have a soul? 103

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avatar Book publications tease … 50
avatar No, I'm not asking for money on Facebook (or anywhere else!) 40
avatar Triple Bhikkhuni ordination in Germany! 32
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avatar :orange_book: The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women, by Vanessa R. Sasson 27

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avatar What do you think about Ven Thanissaro’s view on Nibbāna? 11
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avatar Provocative "Tricycle" article on "The New Tradition of Early Buddhism" 6
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avatar Dangers of lay practice? 34
avatar Is the Tathagata literal suffering? 26
avatar Buddha as Mysogynist? 26
avatar Is train hopping/fare evasion considered a violation of Parajika 2? 24
avatar Why are the Arahant aggregates suffering due to impermanence? 23

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avatar Is the Tathagata literal suffering? 97
avatar Is there a nice "literary" map of early Buddhism? 88
avatar Secular buddhism align with early texts? 71
avatar Why are the Arahant aggregates suffering due to impermanence? 68
avatar Can you give an example in the Pali canon where the Buddha uses LEM? 67

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avatar What should I talk about tonight, given that the world is ending? 24
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avatar Wrong views due the khandhas being impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self 66
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avatar The other way to final Nibbāna according to the suttas 52
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avatar BDK's Madhyama Agama Volume III is out 20
avatar Rebirth is absent in the Vedas. How prevalent was it at the Buddha's time? 18
avatar Ancient Greek Monks & the Writing of the Pali Canon: Recent Research by Ajahn Sona 17
avatar Was the Buddha's personal name “Aṅgīrasa”? 17
avatar Hey American Buddhists: time to get the Dhammapada in the Capitol 15

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avatar Wrong views due the khandhas being impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self 134
avatar The other way to final Nibbāna according to the suttas 123
avatar The Dhamma , Veganism and Vegetarianism 104
avatar What is wrong with a positivist interpretation of Nibbana? 97
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avatar Rebirth is absent in the Vedas. How prevalent was it at the Buddha's time? 29
avatar Was the Buddha's personal name “Aṅgīrasa”? 28
avatar Ancient Greek Monks & the Writing of the Pali Canon: Recent Research by Ajahn Sona 28
avatar Feedback on the content of Sujato's Sutta notes: not a thread on the UI 25
avatar Do we really experience only one kind of feeling at a time? 23

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avatar Soul Denial and Nihilism 9
avatar Why Secular Buddhism is Not True 7
avatar Why is viññāṇa translated as "consciousness"? 6
avatar If you were thinking of memorizing a pali sutta for daily recitation… this is the one 5
avatar Why is it wrong to say that an Arahant does not exist after death? 5
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avatar DN11, Five Aggregates, Vinanna Anidassana 54
avatar On sakkāya, identity, and substantial reality 53
avatar Is Dependent Origination a parody of Vedic cosmology? 39
avatar Notes on yoniso manasi kāra 38
avatar Rethinking parimukha 36

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avatar Four phases of early Buddhist studies 35
avatar The more I look at the Mahāpadesas, the less I am convinced that the obvious reading is the right one 29
avatar Notes on yoniso manasi kāra 27
avatar It seems the Buddha could live only for the lifespan after all 22
avatar On sakkāya, identity, and substantial reality 19

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avatar DN11, Five Aggregates, Vinanna Anidassana 144
avatar On sakkāya, identity, and substantial reality 83
avatar Rethinking parimukha 50
avatar "I declare ONLY suffering and its cessation." — The Buddha, indeed 47
avatar TO BE OR NOT TO BE, the undeclared points in the 4 principle Nikayas: 44

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avatar Four phases of early Buddhist studies 38
avatar The more I look at the Mahāpadesas, the less I am convinced that the obvious reading is the right one 34
avatar Notes on yoniso manasi kāra 34
avatar It seems the Buddha could live only for the lifespan after all 29
avatar “Gotama” was probably the clan of the Sakyan family priest 28

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avatar Four phases of early Buddhist studies 5
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avatar Make a rainbow fall at our feet :rainbow: tell us about our mistakes, typos, and other oversights 52
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