Comments to article entitled :
The Abhidhamma in Practice - Causality Part 1
{written by : Esoteric Library Research Team}
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Article is about :
The Abhidhamma teaches us that:
1.there are natural laws which govern the universe (niyaama dhammaa);
2.our mental and physical states arise dependent on causes — dependent origination (pa.ticca samuppaada); and
3.conditioning and influencing relationships exist between these effects and their causes (paccaya). |
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 2010-04-08 |
Comment By : Greg Gourdian, aka Grigori Rho Gharveyn, Roger Holler... |
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Hi, thanks for presenting this introduction to the practice of Abhidhamma. We had a few problems and questions as follows:
First:
With regard to the first relation of origination: as set forth in this article:
Excerpt >>> 1.Dependent on ignorance there are activities
Would there be activites without ignorance? Would complete enlightenment then end all activity? We suspect this is implied in this relation, and therefore may be why enlightenment might remove us from the wheel of birth and rebirth.
Also:
What are the six bases mentioned in the fourth and fifth origination relations?
Please note:
In the following passage we believe the first word is a typo and this word was meant to mean confusing or conflating:
Excerpt >>> confuting two erroneous interpretations of our nature and destiny
Finally:
While functional, we dispute the concept of reincarnation as it is popularly understood to mean, serially experienced incarnations.
Our issue is that time as we personally understand it is mutable, an illusion. There is only now. Therefore our past and future are both present now, including all past and future lives, all existing concurrently, all exisitng now.
We think traditional perceptions of time arise from early human cognitive development experiences regarding causality, but that causality is transcended when we examine time as being only and eternally now.
KUDOS:
Thanks for sharing this article, we will have a look at some of the related articles. We seem to have much in common with the spirit of this knowledge, in spite of being poorly grounded in the cultural presentation provided through what we presume is a Hindu or Vedannic belief system.
A footnote on the culutral origins might help.
Enjoy! |
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