Reply To: Uppatti Kamma Bhava

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Lal
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Tobias: “What means “landing” in relation to kama dhatu, kama sanna, kama sankappa…? I guess it is the purana kamma stage.”

  • That is correct.

Tobias: “But how can the Bodhisatta avoid kama dhatu (with kama sanna)? “

  • He could not/did not avoid it. As we discussed, even the Buddha or an Arahant also experiences the kama sanna (e.g., sweetness of sugar). Anyone born with a human body would automatically get the kama sanna because it comes with the “uppatti bhavanga.” 
  • So, they all go through the kama dhatu and kama sanna stages, but NOT to the kama sankappa stage.
  • The Buddha or an Arahant would still be in the kama dhatu but NOT in kama bhava. The Bodhisatta was in kama bhava, but he overcame it during the Enlightenment.
  • That is explained in “Recovering the Suffering-Free Pure Mind“. After that, we discussed purana kamma and nava kamma. See the sequence of posts in “Is There a “Self”?” Then we moved to the “Sotapanna Stage via Understanding Perception (Saññā).” section.
  • Maybe I should list all those in the new “Buddha Dhamma – Advanced” section so that we have the whole sequence of posts in one place. 
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