A ‘dhammatā‘ is something taking place according to ‘nature’s laws, and those laws are based on Paticca Samuppada.
- The post Tobias refers to is “Kāya Can be Pañcupādānakkhandha or Physical Body” and #6 of the post is as follows:
6. “Sakkāya Sutta (SN 22.105)” asks, “Katamo ca, bhikkhave, sakkāyo?” (What is sakkāya?). The answer is “Pañcupādānakkhandhātissa vacanīyaṁ” (“I say it is Pañcupādānakkhandhā“).
- The same answer is given in the “Sakkāyapañhā Sutta (SN 38.15)“: “Pañcime, āvuso, upādānakkhandhā sakkāyo vutto bhagavatā” or “āvuso, the Buddha said that pañcupādānakkhandhā are sakkāya.”
- Here, “sakkāya” is “sath kāya” or “beneficial kāya.” Furthermore, “sakkāya ditthi” is “to view (pañcupādānakkhandha)kāya as beneficial.”
- One will have sakkāya ditthi as long as they view sensory pleasures as beneficial. However, since a Sotapanna has not removed kāma rāga, they will still be attached to sensory pleasures; still, they would not do apāyagāmi deeds that lead to rebirths in the apāyās. That happens automatically, without conscious thinking, i.e., it is a dhammatā.
