http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/jimisommer/activity/ Activity feed for jimisommer. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8e3324846ca9e75b29d871a403e66ab1 http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/rebirth/#post-2200 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:22:43 +0000 Okay, so I love this, and honestly it makes the most sense to me. But I am confused about one thing, so just to clear, using this model for the Buddha’s teaching on rebirth, we really only have this one chance for awakening, this one lifetime? Once we die, and our body is breaking down in a coffin 6 feet under, it’s done and over. No matter the…[Read more]

]]> 75033f2a455c00746fa0aad439070567 http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/awakening-rotting-away/#post-2179 Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:35:51 +0000 Well I certainly think it’s possible, and I think it’s absolutely extremely rare. And those ethical conditions aren’t as weird as your making them out to be. There is no rule about dying if you don’t join the monastery, not in the suttas at least, that’s in the commentary and it’s not that you die, it’s just that you’ll just naturally want to…[Read more]

]]> 9b8409b32e2ccafa94d9d3443af65260 http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/awakening-rotting-away/#post-2173 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:36:54 +0000 Yeah absolutely, by fully enlightened I mean someone who has completely uprooted the causes of greed, hatred, and delusion. Total dispassion and cessation of suffering, the elimination of craving and aversion within the mind. When’s I say fully enlightened or arhat, that’s what I mean.

]]> 3484078095c15a10a80c215ba5714ef0 http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/awakening-rotting-away/#post-2170 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:17:30 +0000 No I have never heard of someone who did that, which is why there must be something that prevents them from doing so. I realize they still feel hunger and pain, but the craving for it to end isn’t there, there’s no aversion for the pain or craving for the pleasure. That’s why I say it must be passionless compassion or reverence for the Dhamma that…[Read more]

]]> 46389bf0183d4f51fd47f279ed75f0c4 http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/awakening-rotting-away/#post-2162 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:40:04 +0000 Well I can’t agree with that. I certainly believe it is possible to become fully enlightened. I mean if no one could overcome those deep rooted psychological urges like survival, then no one would ever commit suicide. I know that’s a morbid example, but nonetheless, I do believe that true awakening is a real thing. I’m assuming there must be a…[Read more]

]]> 626718472af9d152844418b82498a9df http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/no-self/#post-2159 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:48:21 +0000 Well you’re actually very accurate in what you’ve said here. The only aspect you’ve left out is sunyata, or emptiness. When the other two marks, anicca (impermanent, unreliable, unstable) and dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactory, bereft), are taken together with sunyata, regarding the 5 aggregates, you then get anatta, no self. Emptiness is essential…[Read more]

]]> 742f1e61ef10030bd8b84e33b184df7d http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/awakening-rotting-away Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:24:33 +0000 I have recently became a practicing buddhist, and let me preface this by saying I am entirely without a doubt that this is the path to awakening. There will always be things that I have trouble understanding, and although I’d like to think that this mind I have is quite comprehensive, lately there has been something troubling me that I haven’t…[Read more]

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