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You can listen at Theory of Everything The Venerable monk of this Channel was a student of Waharaka Temple.
You can also listen to origin of the senses by this Venerable monk.
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Another thing that caught my attention is that we can directly go to the arupavacara samapattis without going through the 4 jhānas. I am not sure if the sutta said this, but this is what I have understood.
Thank you, Sir. I look forward to your reply. Please take the time you need; I believe this sutta requires a detailed analysis rather than a quick response. The translations of the sutta on Sutta Central are quite bad, as they continue to use the term “impermanence.” Who knows if they are misrepresenting other concepts?
Thank you very much Sir Seng Kiat ! But I think chatgpt forget the following statement.
Furthermore, a mendicant—ignoring the perception of the dimension of infinite consciousness and the perception of the dimension of nothingness—focuses on the oneness dependent on the perception of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.
Their mind leaps forth, gains confidence, settles down, and becomes decided in that perception of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.
- I was also suprise that the Lord Buddha didn’t speaks about Nirodha Samapatti and talks about the signless meditation instead and then there the path of Nibbāna is not complete. The monk need to still reflect even after go beyond the Nevasannānāsannāyata.
Thank you for this advice, Christian! Is the honeymoon phase of Dhamma. I was thinking the same at the beginning too. I thought I would never be fooled again by defilements but that was not the case! Thanks to my teachers, I learn to accept that and continue on the path.
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Lord Buddha was more precise about this in the Saṁyojanasutta
“Mendicants, these four individuals are found in the world.
What four?
One individual hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One individual has given up the lower fetters, but not the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One individual has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One individual has given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, and the fetters for getting a continued existence.
“Cattārome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ.
Katame cattāro?
Idha, bhikkhave, ekaccassa puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti.
Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekaccassa puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti.
Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekaccassa puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni honti.
Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekaccassa puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni honti.
What individual has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence?
Katamassa, bhikkhave, puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni?
One extinguished between one life and the next.
Antarāparinibbāyissa.
Imassa kho, bhikkhave, puggalassa orambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni, upapattipaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni pahīnāni, bhavapaṭilābhiyāni saṁyojanāni appahīnāni.
(The translator did not translate the last part put in quotation marks).
Being Sotāpanna by Most Venerable Waharaka Thero. Also see How to enter the Noble Eightfold Path and what Sukha and Dukha really mean.
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Ohh Okok I see ! Sorry, I must have confused you with someone else.
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Hello Abid you talks about Psalms
Also I felt it after doing long psalm readings (trying to read psalms from 1-150)
You were a catholic before right ? Are you the person who asked on Reddit what other buddhists think about Puredhamma website ??
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Hello Jaro, what you said reminds me of what Venerable Dharana Thero(A Sri Lankan monk) said in one of his sermons. I highly recommend that you and everyone see his sermon, ‘The Origin of Senses.‘
Start watching at 42 minutes.
Bhante explains how the 6 senses create the 31 realms and how, the more we are attached to the need to perceive, the more we develop many senses until 6.
I have found diseases that completely deprive a person of their senses. Reading about some people’s experiences, it is clear that attachment to Kama Sanna does not depend on the senses. It is Avijja and Kama Raga that are responsible for it. These people have never felt the experience of the sense that has been lost, but they are sad not to have it. This shows that as long as Kama Raga Anusaya has not been eliminated, one will become attached to Kama Loka even if one has no senses (That is why the puthujjanas brahmas rupa and arupa return to Kama Loka). An arahant or an anagami can lose their senses and they will not be affected by it at all. They do not desire to experience Kama Sanna because Kāma ragā has been completely eliminated. See the story of Venerable Cakkupala. He became blind at the same time as he reached the arahant stage!! Arahant Cakkupala: The Arahant who became blind
He told himself that it is better to cure the disease of mental defilements that cause suffering than the disease of the eyes and continued with deep meditation refusing to lie down as advised by the physician. The physician decided to stop treating Venerable Cakkupala’s eye disease as he was refusing to follow his advice. His eye disease gradually became worse. He ignored that and continued with his meditation and at midnight on a particular day, he eradicated all his mental defilements and attained enlightenment as an Arahant. During the same night, he also became totally blind.
“I am blind, My eyes are destroyed, I have stumbled, On a wilderness track, Even if I must crawl, I will go on, But not with an evil companion.”
- Arahants are sometimes referred to as brahmas, meaning they live purely and without attachment to sensual pleasures. We could even say that they resemble arupa brahmas because, even if they were to lose all five senses, they would not experience the slightest bit of aversion or attachment.
The illness that affects the senses
Achromatopsia (colour blindness)
Congenital Anosmia (Born without smell sense)
Congenital Ageusia (Born without taste sense)
The man who lost his sense of touch and Kim Stenger a woman born without the sense of touch.
Through these conditions, we can observe the law of cause and effect and how the process is triggered in our mind. If a cause is missing, the effect will not manifest.
“Hētum Paṭicca Sambhūtam Hētu Bhamgā Nirujjati”
