August 7, 2024 at 9:07 am
#51294
Keymaster
I wrote, “One has expectations built up by accumulated kammic energy. However, such kammic energies can automatically bring arammana only if one has samyojana intact..”
- What I meant can be explained with the following example.
- Angulimala killed 999 people and was ready to kill even his mother to get to the thousand, which was his goal. So, he had created a kamma vinnana with that expectation. But once meeting the Buddha, that kamma vinnana was nullified.
- The kammic energy created by his previous actions is still there in vinnana dhatu. But that specific arammana (to kill anyone and add another finger to his collection) would not arise in him ever again.
However, numerous random arammana can arise in anyone, including an Arahant.
- Arammana is a sensory input. As long as one has a physical body, it is subjected to various sensory inputs all day.
- But the difference is that an Arahant will not attach to any arammana, while anyone below that COULD attach to some of them.
This is why writing to explain a given concept can be tricky. I may be focused on describing a given aspect, which may give some a wrong impression.
P.S. It could be better to write what I quoted above as follows: “One has expectations built up by accumulated kammic energy. However, such kammic energies can automatically bring arammana AND trigger a kamma vinnana to arise only if one has samyojana intact..”