Reply To: First sight of Gandhabba or Subtle body

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Lal
Keymaster

Hello Donna,

People may get confused by your statement on “One Infinite Creator”. Can you elaborate on what you meant? There is no “Creator”; one is one’s own Creator.

That is the key to Buddha’s message. One creates one’s own bhava (and jati or future births) by doing (abhi)sankhara with ignorance (avijja). That inevitably leads to suffering at the end. Thus one creates one’s own future births and one’s own future suffering.

That is described in Paticca Samuppada: “avijja paccaya sankhara“…leading to “upadana paccaya bhava” and “bhava paccaya jati“, which in turn leads to suffering: “jati paccaya jara, marana, soka,..”.

P.S. This is a CRITICAL point. If one is to understand Buddha Dhamma, one needs to understand what is meant by key words like sankhara and vinnana; see, “Nāma & Rūpa to Nāmarūpa“.

Donna (inflib) probably knows this, but I just wanted to point it out for the general audience.