The true meaning of the Dhamma-wheel, the "wheel-turner", the wheel
of Samsara
By
A.K. Coomaraswamy

We now consider the representation of the Buddhas as Dharmacakra,
Word wheel (and World wheel), or Wheel of the Law or Norm, of which
early Buddhist art
affords so many examples, amongst which the...

Kha and other words denoting "Zero" in Connection with the Indian
metaphysics of space

By: A.K. Coomaraswamy

Kha, cf. Greek Xaos, is generally "cavity"; and in the Rg Veda,
particularly "the hole in the nave of a wheel through which the axle
runs" (Monier Williams). A. N. Singh has shown conclusively that...

SAMMA' DOES NOT MEAN
"RIGHT"
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What is Samma'?
Modern Theravada Abhidhamma (Theravada is not Buddhism) is in the
habit of telling others that the Pali translation of Samma' is
"right"; i.e. "right speech, right
view etc.", however...

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- Richard

Those in the UK may be interested in this program. This is 1 of 3.
Church of England Vicar Peter Owen Jones spends time in a Shaolin
monastery.

If not only for what hopes to be an interesting documentary on a certain
form of Buddhism, that a vicar is open minded enough to be willing to
do this is hopefully something positive.

- Richard

There are no evil actions,.. only an evil (excessius) citta (mind/
Nous).

The body is a tool for the mind, nothing more. Whilst some actions
could near never be rationally justified as having a noble premise in
the mind, ....such as necrophilia, or pedophilia;.... killing is
certainly nothing near either one of these.

Self defense, by gun or by fist both of oneself and those who are
innocent is rationally noble.

To heretically and illogical presume that the mother about to be
murdered in her own home and have her children violently molested and
murdered by a crazed madman, and this very same women pull her gun out
to kill same madman........that such a one as her is "equally to blame"
as, say a Jeffrey Dahmer or any other crazed murderer, is a
reductionistic and fallacious position as held by those with
irrational minds who are driven by feelings and hormonal emotive
bundles.

eva 1/2 vimuttacittassa kho,
mah±n±ma, up±sakassa ±sav± '03 vimuttacittena bhikkhun± na
kiñci n±n±karaºa 1/2 vad±mi, yadida 1/2- vimuttiy± vimuttan"ti.

SN 5.410 I proclaim there is absolutely no difference between a
layperson with a mind (citta) which is liberated and that mind of a
bhikkhu which has been liberated for a century.

Oh, shit, the pathetic bald 'monkers' only needed wisdom, not to piss
their life away by becoming ascetic recluses.

"N±ha 1/2, bhikkhave, añña 1/2 ekadhammampi samanupass±mi ya 1/2 eva 1/2 bh
±vita 1/2 bahul²kata 1/2 sukh±dhivaha 1/2 hoti yathayida 1/2, bhikkhave, citta 1/2.
Citta 1/2, bhikkhave, bh±vita 1/2 bahul²kata 1/2 sukh±dhivaha 1/2 hot²"ti.
Dasama 1/2.
AN 1.6 I do not have, followers, insight into anything or any dharma
which, when made to become and made to expand that brings greater
bliss than the mind (citta). The mind, followers, when made to become
and made to expand, brings the greatest bliss.

"Pabhassaramida 1/2, bhikkhave, citta 1/2. Tañca kho ±gantukehi upakkilesehi
upakkiliµµhan"ti. Navama 1/2.
50. "Pabhassaramida 1/2, bhikkhave, citta 1/2. Tañca kho ±gantukehi
upakkilesehi vippamuttan"ti. Dasama 1/2.
AN1.10 The mind (citta) is primordially luminous, but due to
defilements which come from without, it is defiled. The mind (citta)
is primordially luminous (once again), when defilements which come
from without are cleansed from it.

Citta is none of the 5 khandhas, is the Atman, just as NOUS is the
SELF in Platonism, just as CITTA is the Atman in Advaita Vedanta, and
Upanishads, and the B. Gita.