http://www.accesstoinsight.org Readings in Theravada Buddhism en-us Copyright 2010 John T Bullitt 2010-09-02T12:05:48+01:00 John T Bullitt this field intentionally void because I don't know what it's for. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../ I've just installed the SLTP edition of the Pali Tipitaka... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../ http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/bodhi/arahantsbodhisattvas.html For centuries, Theravada's arahant ideal and Mahayana's bodhisattva ideal have served as lightning rods of contention between these two schools of Buddhism. In fact, the author argues, a healthy and integrated Buddhist practice requires respect of both ideals. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/bodhi/arahantsbodhisattvas.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/thanissaro/meditations4.html More Dhamma talks from the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery. This book is highly recommended.... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/thanissaro/meditations4.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming.html The Buddha's second Noble Truth states that the cause of suffering is any kind of craving that stimulates becoming (bhāva; the process by which we continually fabricate new states of mind, from moment to moment and lifetime to lifetime). Yet this Noble Truth also states that the desire for non-becoming is one of the three basic forms of craving. Thus the paradox: How can we attain the end of suffering if the desire to end it is itself a cause of suffering? In this book the author explores the Buddha's own resolution of this paradox: how, through the practice of jhāna, we can create a unique state of becoming whereby the mind does not add further fuel to its desires. Eventually, this intentionally fabricated state of becoming itself comes to an end, providing the long-sought opening to the Deathless. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../lib/authors/thanissaro/paradoxofbecoming.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../tipitaka/dn/dn.01.0.bodh.html In this important sutta, the first in the Tipitaka, the Buddha describes sixty-two philosophical and speculative views concerning the self and the world that were prevalent among spiritual seekers of his day. In rejecting these teachings -- many of which thrive to this day -- he decisively establishes the parameters of his own.... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/./../tipitaka/dn/dn.01.0.bodh.html