The Foundations of Buddhism

No Self r6r the Nikayas we are told how the Buddha was once asked by the wanderer Vacchagotta whether the self existed.^46 The B ...

No Self modern scholars to appreciate the relationship between the intellectual (cognitive) and emotional (affective) dimensions ...

7 The Buddhist Path The Way of Calm and Insight Introductory remarks The previous two chapters have focused on the Buddhist unde ...

The Buddhist Path have some basis in ordinary, everyday Buddhist practice, than for the beginner. The vast majority of Buddhists ...

The Buddhist Path !65 the general accounts of the Buddhist path as a gradual progres- sion from the fundamental practices of gen ...

!66 The Buddhist Path basic structure can still be seen as revealing something general about the nature of the spiritual path: t ...

The Buddhist Path power of rituals, whose truths are not accepted on the authority of scripture, but verified by direct experien ...

I68 The Buddhist Path (bhik~u!bhikkhu) or nun (bhik~wfi/bhikkhuni). In practice, the, strength of commitment of both may vary, b ...

The Buddhist Path charms to give us absolute protection from the effects of our bad karma, nevertheless defends their efficacy i ...

The Buddhist Path on the Buddhist understanding of 'good conduct' or 'virtue: (sllalsfla ).It is useful here to make a distincti ...

The Buddhist Path terms to stealing, although once more the wider definition begs the question of what precisely constitutes 'wh ...

The Buddhist Path The five precepts and the ten courses of action essentially define for us right speech and action of the eight ...

The Buddhist Path 173 one is free of blame. Yet there is no direct prescription against the eating of meat in the earliest Buddh ...

174 The Buddhist Path seen as intrinsically disturbing. Keeping the precepts, on the other hand, frees the mind from guilt and a ...

The Buddhist Path 175 wisdom (prajiiii/pannii) respectively. Some modern scholars have seen these two kinds of meditation as ref ...

The Buddhist Path moss and leaves, ruffled by the wind, muddied and in a dark place. If someone should look down into a bowl of ...

The Buddhist Path 177 pure, abstract 'forms' (riipa ). The experience of this refined world of pure form comprises four increasi ...

TABLE 4· The forty subjects of calm meditation according to Buddhaghosa SUBJECT PERSONALITY LEVEL SUBJECT PERSONALITY LEVEL roKA ...

The Buddhist Path 179 discs as a meditation subject. Upatissa and Buddhaghosa go into some detail concerning the analysis of dif ...

180 The Buddhist Path The hindrances and the limbs of dhyana The basic instructions for beginning meditation are very simple. On ...