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What is Displeasurable is Not-self, Part 1

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― With this we come to the heart of the Buddha’s teaching. Since the Buddha’s teaching is aimed at destroying all possibility of mental unpleasant feeling and not bodily feeling (pleasant or otherwise), we would expect that its emphasis...

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David Bergen ― 17 hr ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 13

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Terminology of Desire In the Pali Suttas the words taṇhā, chanda, rāga and nandi often appear together, as in the phrase yo chando yo rāgo yā nandi yā taṇhā ya upāyupādanā (Bhavanetti-sutta,...

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David Bergen ― 1 day ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 12

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Apart from craving for pleasant sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touches, there is also a craving for pleasant mental images or ideas (dhamma). In Pali this is called dhammataṇhā. Thus craving for ‘I am’ would be...

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David Bergen ― 2 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 11

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― We see in experience that of kāmataṇhā, bhavataṇhā and vibhavataṇhā, the last two are more potent than the first; and that is because bhavataṇhā and vibhavataṇhā involve ...

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David Bergen ― 3 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 10

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― If we extend this simile we may say that the sore (vana) is the conceit ‘(I) am’ (asmimāna); waning to scratch is the craving-for-sensuality (kāmataṇhā) scratching is the indulgence in sensuality (kāma); and ...

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David Bergen ― 4 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 9

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― The cravings in the puthujjana’s experience are of three types: craving-for-‘being’ (bhavataṇhā) craving-for-‘unbeing’ (vibhavataṇhā) craving-for-sensuality (kāmataṇhā) ...

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David Bergen ― 5 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 8

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Now, whenever the puthujjana finds that he needs to intensify the pleasurability of his ‘being’, the only means he has for it is through the intensity of pleasure which occurs in the realm of the five sense-bases: eye, ear,...

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David Bergen ― 6 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 7

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― Now, as said in the Sutta, ‘there are many more in the world’ who, without abandoning the view that nothing pleases them, keep clinging to that view. Consequently, they keep looking for a complete escape from ‘being’....

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David Bergen ― 1 week 9 hr ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 6

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― The Buddha points out that belief in eternalism is due to sticking fast (oliyanti) to ‘being’. “Men and gods, monks, are loving ‘being’, are intent on ‘being’, are delighted in ‘being’. When...

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David Bergen ― 1 week 1 day ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 5

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― On the surface, ‘being’-view (bhavadiṭṭhi) seems in opposition to ‘nonbeing’-view (vibhavadiṭṭhi), just as much as on the surface, ‘being’ (bhava) seems in opposition to...

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David Bergen ― 1 week 2 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 4

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― It is necessary to realize that craving-for-‘nonbeing’ has to be there if there is craving-for-‘being’. The puthujjana’s existence is being-’self’ and not being-self. It is because his existence is the...

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David Bergen ― 1 week 3 days ago

Craving (Taṇhā) Part 3

Ergontic Ontological Consulting—Software for your... ― If the puthujjana wants to do away with ‘being’, he must stop creating ‘being’. That means he must stop creating ‘self’. And for this he must first understand that he is taking what is really not-self to be ...

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David Bergen ― 1 week 4 days ago

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