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Recollection of Devas is something different than thinking that someone is watching over your deeds – it just coping mechanism and type of psychiatry rather than a way to attain any Nibbana, it’s still in the field of wrong views.
“Recollect the devas. They are watching. Your unwholesome activities, whatever they be, even your unwholesome thoughts they can watch. Not as wardens – to observe, admonish and punish, but to ‘watch over’ rather, like tutors their pupils”
Don’t do that. If you think like that you will actually cultivate more avijja. Only wisdom can permanently cut off tanha/avijja. Simple reasoning will not work you will actually get opposite. Those devas didn’t attain Ariya status by doing the same but by cultivating wisdom and insight.
I do not know why my post didn’t show up so if it will be double please delete the shorted one.
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All the Buddha said is the same from different context and angles. The more you see that you are not able attain any happiness thru hate, greed and lust the closer to Nibbana you are.
The thing is that if you read a lot of nonsense under “buddhism” category (books, articles etc.) which are not even close to real Dhamma you will develop wrong views that you will think that you experience something (which is not even living experience, this is just what you think and believe/imagine). So what you think is not what you experience but you take what you read for granted “if it that so then I will just think that way and repeat like a parrot” – this is how 99% so-called “buddhist” I encountered. Dhamma is not empty, even if you are Arahant is not empty but there is no more use of Dhamma as a healthy person does not need any more medicine to take – do medicine become empty? No, we just do not need it anymore.
99% so-called “experiences” are just what people read and think and they think that is what is called experience. Totally wrong. We experience only a couple things, mundane stuff, jhanic states (if someone can enter them) and Nibbana – that’s it. There is no more to experience besides it.
Keep yourself checked all the time if you want to make real progress. I can not stress how an understanding of Dhamma is crucial otherwise there is no real progress outside of that understanding but just confusion which we being absorbed into as it fits our confused gathi.
Stop making up stuff in your mind and just focus on what you really experience. (tanha/avijja)
Dhamma is not empty, you are just confused about things and this is why Dhamma seems empty as you creating this experience as a blind person touching different things and experiencing them as something else then it is in reality.
Sevetha bhikkhave, Sāriputta-Moggallāne. Bhajatha bhikkhave, Sāriputta-Moggallāne. Paṇḍitā bhikkhū anuggāhakā sabrahmacārīnaɱ. Seyyathāpī bhikkhave, janetti evaɱ Sāriputto. Seyyathā pi jātassa āpādetā evaɱ kho Moggallāno. Sāriputto bhikkhave, sotāpattiphale vineti. Moggallāno uttamatthe. Sāriputto bhikkhave, pahoti cattāri ariyasaccāni vitthārena ācikkhituɱ desetuɱ paññāpetuɱ paṭṭhapetuɱ vivarituɱ vibhajituɱ uttānīkātunti
I remember something like this when Buddha mentions attend Sariputta for stream entry Path and Moggallanna for Arahantship
I do not know if you find it useful but here is some information
There is an esoteric way to influence devas and different beings into action to do something but Buddha already explained it was not the right way to do so in his suttas about wrong livelihood. Most are superstitious and made up but some practices are real based on my experience but I do not know about their consequences in the future. I think we can bypass to some extent kamma of this life and influence things the way we want if we know how but compared to the whole sansara it’s still nothing. I would compare it to the smartphone, we can use certain ways nature and supernatural moves but it’s still mundane stuff that will not lead to Nibbana. Imagine that you can magically create some wealth or bring something to yourself – your mind would be very “hyped” up and you would develop lustful, hateful thoughts, you would smash your enemies etc. which is only fuel to ignorance.
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It’s sad seeing how people can be clueless even about basic things in Dhamma.
Imagine that you are on caravan going so fast that you can not stop it. The only way to stop is to cut off reins of the horse. All other religions focus either on the horse or on the caravan that’s why they are a bootleg (or at the best – limited version of spirituality) Buddha provided a real deal. Once you attain enough wisdom you can cut off reins and stop the suffering forever. People do not even know they are on the caravan (10 micca ditthi) so how this process can even start?
All those questions and confusion only springs from not understand real Dhamma. It’s like making up conclusions about 2+2 is maybe 6 maybe 7 maybe it’s 2 or maybe it’s 0? Why make up assumptions and conclusions about it without learning it? There is no “shortcut” or we can not “make up” Nibbana just by assuming things of what Buddha Dhamma is or not.
Get things straight, learn Dhamma and stop daydreaming about it!
“For me” “What I think” “my experience” = wrong views.
I’m not a teacher, Buddha is. You have very wrong self-assumptions but rather than focus on them (hate, greed, and lust) you rather follow jhana. If you can follow up with jhanas then even the first one is enough to attain Nibbana, why pursuing them more when the first one is enough? Don’t be an example of addiction or attachment to jhana. :)
I would prefer for you to focus on Buddha Dhamma and jhana as the way you explaining things have no relation to what Buddha taught or Dhamma. The point of this site and forum I think is to show the right direction of understanding, try to follow it with the jhanas and you will benefit much more then what you are aiming for now.
To make any progress in Buddha Dhamma first you make sure you understand it very clearly so you can relate any situation in relation to Dhamma. I would suggest to learn key Dhamma concepts and to attain right view. If you are able to attain 4th jhana, try to study Anicca nature in 4th jhana or in any jhana anicca nature of any state.
Not understanding Buddha Dhamma (as explained by Buddha) is cause of any fuss in practice, whatever in ceto or panna vimutti
To be honest what you explaining seems not even close to jhana to be honest. Are you sure those are jhanas? What in-between object have to do with jhana?
From my experience jhanas are very are those days. (I mean the real one)
