nibbana update nov 2011
... stage and ultimate enlightenment is a profound awakening into an awareness of reality where all defiled mind states are dissolved and the mind is luminous and infinite. This is not a state of nothingness. What do you think of this idea? Discuss ...
... stage and ultimate enlightenment is a profound awakening into an awareness of reality where all defiled mind states are dissolved and the mind is luminous and infinite. This is not a state of nothingness. What do you think of this idea? Discuss ...
P Q
... the problem solver begins with the given facts of the problem and a set of legal moves or rules for changing state Search proceeds by applying rules to facts to produce new facts, which are in turn used by the rules to generate more new facts This process continues until (we hope!) it generates ...
... the problem solver begins with the given facts of the problem and a set of legal moves or rules for changing state Search proceeds by applying rules to facts to produce new facts, which are in turn used by the rules to generate more new facts This process continues until (we hope!) it generates ...
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
... conduct, including the Buddhist precepts and Mahayana perfections (pāramitā), is merely a device to be tossed aside after serving its purpose. Given that partaking in a different kind of ethics does not necessarily mean having no ethics at all, James correctly shows that such an argument profoundly ...
• Propositional definite clauses ctd • Monotone functions and power
... The standard notion of one set being a subset of another (X ⊆ Y ) just means that everything that is in X is also in Y : ∀x x ∈ X → x ∈ Y. Suppose that we have a function f : X → Y , where X, Y are both sets of sets. (The notation f : X → Y says that f is a function that relates for any x ∈ X a uniq ...
... The standard notion of one set being a subset of another (X ⊆ Y ) just means that everything that is in X is also in Y : ∀x x ∈ X → x ∈ Y. Suppose that we have a function f : X → Y , where X, Y are both sets of sets. (The notation f : X → Y says that f is a function that relates for any x ∈ X a uniq ...
Traditionalist Representations of Buddhism
... a teaching in this way, as timeless, is to cut off considering an idea as having an origin in some particular time and place—some specific socio-historic setting. More particularly, such ideas originate as answers to some specific problem. Placing a religious teaching in the realm of timeless truths ...
... a teaching in this way, as timeless, is to cut off considering an idea as having an origin in some particular time and place—some specific socio-historic setting. More particularly, such ideas originate as answers to some specific problem. Placing a religious teaching in the realm of timeless truths ...
The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency
... “dialogical phenomenon” (189), an organization of experience initiated as much by others as by oneself. This is a powerful insight, though surprisingly Heim does not relate it back to a discourse (A.ii.158–160) she had discussed in chapter one (40–45) in which the Buddha teaches that one’s experienc ...
... “dialogical phenomenon” (189), an organization of experience initiated as much by others as by oneself. This is a powerful insight, though surprisingly Heim does not relate it back to a discourse (A.ii.158–160) she had discussed in chapter one (40–45) in which the Buddha teaches that one’s experienc ...
The Four Noble Truths: The Essence of Buddhism
... strength to overcome the afflictions caused by mis fortune and other difficulties. If we can accept with equanimity when others are either nice or hostile to us, and if we can look at all worldly matters, be they good or bad, in the same way, then we can confront suffering with ease and calmness. B ...
... strength to overcome the afflictions caused by mis fortune and other difficulties. If we can accept with equanimity when others are either nice or hostile to us, and if we can look at all worldly matters, be they good or bad, in the same way, then we can confront suffering with ease and calmness. B ...
overhead 8/singular sentences [ov]
... subjects of these sentences - but these words are different from names in that they don't refer: "something" and "everything" don't refer to particular things or people; obviously "nothing" doesn't refer ...
... subjects of these sentences - but these words are different from names in that they don't refer: "something" and "everything" don't refer to particular things or people; obviously "nothing" doesn't refer ...
Ati*a - College of the Holy Cross
... less time. By not knowing this, great complications follow from such a small base of error for hundreds of thousands of sentient beings…. Not being able to bear the suffering for so many beings, I cry. And then, I laugh because when this small basis of error is known—when one knows one's own mind—on ...
... less time. By not knowing this, great complications follow from such a small base of error for hundreds of thousands of sentient beings…. Not being able to bear the suffering for so many beings, I cry. And then, I laugh because when this small basis of error is known—when one knows one's own mind—on ...
Bhikkhunī Sāsana Journal of Buddhist Ethics
... turmoil that had decimated the entire monastic community.26 Only the bhikkhu order was re-established from Burma.27 Thus, while the bhikkhunī The expression used to refer to their higher ordination is just pabbajiṃsu, cf. Oldenberg (88,17+19), Dīp 16.38f. This usage appears to be similar to a genera ...
... turmoil that had decimated the entire monastic community.26 Only the bhikkhu order was re-established from Burma.27 Thus, while the bhikkhunī The expression used to refer to their higher ordination is just pabbajiṃsu, cf. Oldenberg (88,17+19), Dīp 16.38f. This usage appears to be similar to a genera ...
First-Order Intuitionistic Logic with Decidable Propositional
... symbols. Some classes of formulas for which the existence property holds are also identified. Additionally, a weaker form of the existence property holds in intuitionistic logic with decidable propositional atoms. Sequent calculus is used as a framework for studying first-order intuitionistic logic ...
... symbols. Some classes of formulas for which the existence property holds are also identified. Additionally, a weaker form of the existence property holds in intuitionistic logic with decidable propositional atoms. Sequent calculus is used as a framework for studying first-order intuitionistic logic ...
the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw
... In the midst of all these manifold and strenuous activities, he never neglected his own meditative life which had enabled him to give wise guidance to those instructed by him. His outstanding vigor of body and mind and his deep dedication to the Dhamma sustained him through a life of 78 years. On 14 ...
... In the midst of all these manifold and strenuous activities, he never neglected his own meditative life which had enabled him to give wise guidance to those instructed by him. His outstanding vigor of body and mind and his deep dedication to the Dhamma sustained him through a life of 78 years. On 14 ...
Hinayana and Mahayana
... century Mahdydnasutrdlamkdra, a formative classic of Mahayana doctrine: "the Sravakayana [i.e., Hinayana] and Mahayana are mutually opposed."2 For Asanga this fundamental incommensurability is ideological and practical in nature: the two ydnas diverge in their aspirations, teachings, practices, supp ...
... century Mahdydnasutrdlamkdra, a formative classic of Mahayana doctrine: "the Sravakayana [i.e., Hinayana] and Mahayana are mutually opposed."2 For Asanga this fundamental incommensurability is ideological and practical in nature: the two ydnas diverge in their aspirations, teachings, practices, supp ...
Biographies of Conference Participants
... joined the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath. Then, under the auspices of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, he studied Buddhist philosophy for three years and received a GesheAcharya degree in 1972. At the end of 1973 he joined the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, as libr ...
... joined the Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath. Then, under the auspices of Sanskrit University, Varanasi, he studied Buddhist philosophy for three years and received a GesheAcharya degree in 1972. At the end of 1973 he joined the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, as libr ...
Lecture 102: The Archetype of the Divine Healer Friends, In the
... Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra. And in the course of the seven lectures that we've had so far I have offered a certain amount of comment, certain amount of explanation, with regard to these parables, myths, and symbols, but on the whole we've not been trying to understand them intellectually. We' ...
... Buddhism in the White Lotus Sutra. And in the course of the seven lectures that we've had so far I have offered a certain amount of comment, certain amount of explanation, with regard to these parables, myths, and symbols, but on the whole we've not been trying to understand them intellectually. We' ...
KnotandTonk 1 Preliminaries
... ferentially specified) meanings of the other connectives. This raises a further parallel between inferentialist reactions to Knot and semanticist reactions to Tonk. Semanticists sometimes allege that the natural deduction rules for Tonk fail even to define a meaningful connective, on the grounds th ...
... ferentially specified) meanings of the other connectives. This raises a further parallel between inferentialist reactions to Knot and semanticist reactions to Tonk. Semanticists sometimes allege that the natural deduction rules for Tonk fail even to define a meaningful connective, on the grounds th ...
propositional logic extended with a pedagogically useful relevant
... All this will sound familiar to people acquainted with the work of Anderson and Belnap. The language being W 1 , there is no need for index sets; the star will be sufficient to recall whether the hypothesis of the subproof is or is not relevant to the conclusion of the subproof. If it is, an arrow c ...
... All this will sound familiar to people acquainted with the work of Anderson and Belnap. The language being W 1 , there is no need for index sets; the star will be sufficient to recall whether the hypothesis of the subproof is or is not relevant to the conclusion of the subproof. If it is, an arrow c ...
Buddhist Meditation - Sungai Long Buddhist Society
... One of the dilemmas in the book, was to find quality. Where does the quality live in a object? The main character in the book rode a Honda Super Hawk 400, and his buddy a BMW. His buddy always felt his BMW had more quality than the Honda. I'm thinking, what would happen if both these guys went to a ...
... One of the dilemmas in the book, was to find quality. Where does the quality live in a object? The main character in the book rode a Honda Super Hawk 400, and his buddy a BMW. His buddy always felt his BMW had more quality than the Honda. I'm thinking, what would happen if both these guys went to a ...
34_8.
... truth about it. Starting from its nomenclature, the native of Tibet called their country Bod () Most probably, this name has been derived from Mongolian word Thubet. But one most convincing according to me and I suppose the scholar community have the word of affirmation in this regard is that the ...
... truth about it. Starting from its nomenclature, the native of Tibet called their country Bod () Most probably, this name has been derived from Mongolian word Thubet. But one most convincing according to me and I suppose the scholar community have the word of affirmation in this regard is that the ...
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... innocent activities, right down to breathing itself, had to be stopped by those who seriously aspired for liberation. Beside Jainism, there were other religious movements which originated in Greater Magadha, most notably Ājīvikism and Buddhism. There is however one reaction to the belief in rebi ...
... innocent activities, right down to breathing itself, had to be stopped by those who seriously aspired for liberation. Beside Jainism, there were other religious movements which originated in Greater Magadha, most notably Ājīvikism and Buddhism. There is however one reaction to the belief in rebi ...
4. Hsuan-Tsang - Triratna Centre Support
... translate and check the texts that he had brought back form India. People were also required to transcribe them, as printing was still 200 years in the future. Over time Hsuan Tasng became a frequent companion of the Emperor (and the Emperors who followed him). Hung Tsang persuaded them to support B ...
... translate and check the texts that he had brought back form India. People were also required to transcribe them, as printing was still 200 years in the future. Over time Hsuan Tasng became a frequent companion of the Emperor (and the Emperors who followed him). Hung Tsang persuaded them to support B ...
THE ABUNDANCE OF THE FUTURE A Paraconsistent Approach to
... a proposition is true if the event corresponding to it has at least some degree of probability, i.e. if we can rationally bet on it. Notwithstanding the fact that the semantics we present here is purely qualitative, a probabilistic interpretation of it will shed light on its paraconsistent features, ...
... a proposition is true if the event corresponding to it has at least some degree of probability, i.e. if we can rationally bet on it. Notwithstanding the fact that the semantics we present here is purely qualitative, a probabilistic interpretation of it will shed light on its paraconsistent features, ...
Proof and computation rules
... As the proof proceeds, the two subgoals 1 and 2 with conclusions A and G respectively will be refined, say with proof terms a and g(f, v) respectively. We need to indicate that the value v is ap(f ; a), but at the point where the rule is applied, we only have slots for these subterms and a name v for ...
... As the proof proceeds, the two subgoals 1 and 2 with conclusions A and G respectively will be refined, say with proof terms a and g(f, v) respectively. We need to indicate that the value v is ap(f ; a), but at the point where the rule is applied, we only have slots for these subterms and a name v for ...
A Calculus for Belnap`s Logic in Which Each Proof Consists of Two
... This is the notion of entailment considered in Belnap [5, 6], but not that of Arieli & Avron [1], who use a single-barrelled notion. The two notions of entailment are coextensional on sets of formulas based on classical connectives only, but not on formulas based on a functionally complete set of co ...
... This is the notion of entailment considered in Belnap [5, 6], but not that of Arieli & Avron [1], who use a single-barrelled notion. The two notions of entailment are coextensional on sets of formulas based on classical connectives only, but not on formulas based on a functionally complete set of co ...
Samsaric existence in Jack Kerouac`s The Dharma Bums and
... in civilization, and on the road. This structure mirrors a traditional Buddhist icon, the Wheel of Life, which reflects Samsara and defines life as ignorance, desire, and the creation of an illusion for the individual. Buddhist belief draws a strong distinction between this Wheel and the Noble Eight ...
... in civilization, and on the road. This structure mirrors a traditional Buddhist icon, the Wheel of Life, which reflects Samsara and defines life as ignorance, desire, and the creation of an illusion for the individual. Buddhist belief draws a strong distinction between this Wheel and the Noble Eight ...