Reply To: Gratitude post (or how Dhamma helped with my porn addiction)

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Lal
Keymaster

Good summary!

You wrote: “Because of Ignorance (Avijja), we believe the Samsara is pleasurable, therefore we attach (Ragā) ourselves to the 31 realms.”

  • Yes. We can say that avijja is the ignorance of the role played by the (distorted) saññā, which is ‘kāma saññā‘ in our kāma loka.
  • Without colors, tastes, smells, etc. (generated via kāma saññā‘), we would not crave anything in the kāma loka. Thus, ‘kāma saññā‘ is the trigger for our attachments. 
  • I tried to explain that in the post What Does “Paccayā” Mean in Paṭicca Samuppāda? 
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