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Thank you Tobias for your well wishes and compliment.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! TripleGemStudent,

‘na santi bhikkhū ovādakā’ti, bhante, parihānametaṁ.
Translated as: 
“When there are no calm bhikkhus‘ advisers, bhante, there is decline.”

These calm bhikkhus (ordained monks) are the Sotāpanna and above but does not include the Buddha (bhante).

The Sutta is a dialog between Venerable Mahākassapa and Buddha.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Thank you Lal and TripleGemStudent for your compliment and kind word.

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Greetings! Jorg,

“I assume Buddha chose to go into nirodha samapatti as well.”

In the Buddha’s Daily Routine, the Buddha had his nirodha samāpatti at between 4am and 5am.

Piya Tan of Minding Centre had an article on Suppati Sutta (SN 4.7) with details from the commentary that include the Buddha’s Daily Rotine.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Thank you, Lal, for this post on the new website “https://puredhamma.netlify.app/” in ebook form.

In addition to the “replica” of Pure Dhamma website at “https://puredhamma.netlify.app/”, I have also added the Medium Discourses Collection – Majjhima Nikāya at “https://puredhamma.netlify.app/MajjhimaNikaya/”.

This Medium Discourses Collection – Majjhima Nikāya can also be access from “https://puredhamma.netlify.app/” under the Content (a drop down list) column (left column) right at the bottom of the list, under header “Sutta Piṭaka” with a list “Mijjhima Nikāya”. Once “Mijjhima Nikāya” is click, it will open in a new tab. More collection will be added as I compile them and publish it!

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LayDhammaFollower asked: Faculty Of “I will know the unknown” means having Chanda for nibbanā and trying to have asavakhaya nana, right?

No, anaññātaññassāmītindriya is the wisdom faculty “I will know the unknown” or “competent of what has so far been unknown” when Sotāpatti is reached. See the “Wisdom faculty (paññindriaya) of Lokuttara (supramundane) Chart” above at the top right corner.

Kindly note that when reaching the Sotāpatti fruition, if you have not been able to reach jhāna till the fourth jhāna (for sutta) or fifth jhāna (for Abhidhamma) and have ability to review the five jhāna factors and know which jhāna a yogi is in, you will not be able to review the thought process (paccavekkhana vīthi) of these three wisdom faculties (anaññātaññassāmītindriya, aññindriya, and aññātāvindriya).

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These three are indriyā and not ñānā and belongs to the Wisdom faculty describes in this post. It is in the A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, under Compendium of Categories, at Compendium of Mixed Categories under Faculties (§18 – page 273).

Download the Wisdom faculty (paññindriaya) of Lokuttara (supramundane) Chart for better viewing.

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Greetings!

You may read this post “The Sōtapanna Stage” with the explanation of kalyāṇa from the Upaḍḍha Sutta (SN 45.2).

“kalyāṇa” means to “help remove defilements,” and “mittatā” is a friendship; “sahāyatā” is companionship; and “sampavaṅkatā” is close association.

kalyāṇamittatā means friendship that help remove defilements.
kalyāṇasahāyatā means companionship that help remove defilements.
kalyāṇasampavaṅkatā means close association that help remove defilements.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! LayDhammaFollower,

If you are able to have a PDF file link in the Html MindMap, that will most useful as viewing the html MindMap is tedious for mobile or desktop user.

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Thanks cubibobi, that is very true as he does not have true understanding of anicca, dukkha and anatta.

I wanted to highlight where the source of the image comes from and what are his recent works.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings!

This image is the creation of Dev Jacobsen.

Read this article by him: Cultivation of Dependent Origination

This is his old video series of Paṭicca Samuppāda: Palingenesis: the Art of Becoming [2016] by Dev Jacobsen

And a new video series of Paṭicca Samuppāda: Dependent Arising (paticca-samuppāda) [2019-2021] by Dev Jacobsen and now called Dhamarsār Thero

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! LayDhammaFollower,

I have corrected some Pāli words’ characters (tone vowels and consonants) and added some texts and corrected some spelling errors to your existing Pure Dhamma mindmap. Below are the attached PDF and mindmap files.

PDF file: Pure Dhamma 01June2022.pdf

MindMap file: Pure Dhamma 01June2022.mind

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! Christian,

I have a reply to you post above which you may want to have a look by clicking on this link.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! Christian,

In the A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, under Compendium of Categories, at Compendium of Mixed Categories under Faculties (§18 – page 273). Listed are the 22 faculties as below.

Bāvīsat’ indriyāni: cakkhundriyaṃ, sotindriyaṃ, ghānindriyaṃ, jivhindriyaṃ, kāyindriyaṃ, itthindriyaṃ, purisindriyaṃ, jīvitindriyaṃ, manindriyaṃ, sukhindriyaṃ, dukkhindriyaṃ, somanassindriyaṃ, domanassindriyaṃ, upekkhindriyaṃ, saddhindriyaṃ, viriyindriyaṃ, satindriyaṃ, samādhindriyaṃ, paññindriyaṃ, anaññātaññassāmītindriyaṃ, aññindriyaṃ, aññātāvindriyaṃ.
Twenty-two faculties: (1) the eye faculty, (2) the ear faculty, (3) the nose faculty, (4) the tongue faculty, (5) the body faculty, (6) the femininity faculty, (7) the masculinity faculty, (8) the life faculty, (9) the mind faculty, (10) the pleasure faculty, (11) the pain faculty, (12) the joy faculty, (13) the displeasure faculty, (14) the equanimity faculty, (15) the faith faculty, (16) the energy faculty, (17) the mindfulness faculty, (18) the concentration faculty, (19) the wisdom faculty, (20) the faculty, “I will know the unknown,” (21) the faculty of final knowledge, (22) the faculty of one who has final knowledge.

Item (20) (21) and (22) are the wisdom faculties (paññindriaya) of Lokuttara (supramundane) not Lokiya (mundane). While the item (19) is the wisdom faculty of the Lokiya (mundane).



Download the Wisdom faculty (paññindriaya) of Lokuttara (supramundane) Chart for better viewing.

According to the book “Guide to the Study of Theravada Buddhism Book 4” on the Reviewing Thought Process (Paccavekkhana Vīthi) (page 160 to 161) is as pasted below with my comment beneath it.

Reviewing Thought Process (Paccavekkhana Vīthi):

Once jhāna or the Path consciousness (Magga) has been attained it requires the yogi to look back on his attainment for clear confirmation. He should review the jhāna factors and for each jhāna factor a thought process occurs with five sense sphere (kāma) javana cittas.

Five jhāna factors are:
(1) Vitakka (Initial Application)
(2) Vicāra (Sustained Application)
(3) Pīti (Joy)
(4) Sukha (Happiness)
(5) Ekagattā (One Pointedness)

Ex – B Bc Bu Mn J J J J J B
Notes:
B – Bhavaṅga
Bc – Bhavaṅga calana
Bu – Bhavaṅga uppaccheda
Mn – Manodvārāvajjana
J – Jhāna

In the case of Magga Vīthi there will be five reviewing thought processes after the attainment of first magga. Each Paccavekkhana Vīthi will reflect on :

(1) Magga achieved
(2) Fruition consciousness
(3) Nibbāna
(4) Eradicated Defilements (Kilesa)
(5) Balance Defilements to be eradicated.

There will be five Paccavekkhana Vīthi after Sotāpatti, Sakadāgāmi and Anāgāmi magga. With regard to Arahantta Magga there will be only four Paccavekkhana Vīthi without the last one (Number Five) mentioned above.

My comment: It would seem that the yogi should be well verse in jhāna to be able to review thought process. So, even though, the yogi has attained the Sotāpatti, Sakadāgāmi, Anāgāmi and Arahatta magga (path), the yogi would not be able to review the five reviewing thought processes listed above unless the yogi is well verse in jhāna. This is only my opinion, unless those with path moment is able to state otherwise.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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Greetings! Yash RS,

According to the book “Guide to the Study of Theravada Buddhism Book 4” on the Reviewing Thought Process (Paccavekkhana Vīthi) (page 160 to 161) is as pasted below with my comment beneath it.

Reviewing Thought Process (Paccavekkhana Vīthi):

Once jhāna or the Path consciousness (Magga) has been attained it requires the yogi to look back on his attainment for clear confirmation. He should review the jhāna factors and for each jhāna factor a thought process occurs with five sense sphere (kāma) javana cittas.

Five jhāna factors are:
(1) Vitakka (Initial Application)
(2) Vicāra (Sustained Application)
(3) Pīti (Joy)
(4) Sukha (Happiness)
(5) ekagattā (One Pointedness)

Ex – B Bc Bu Mn J J J J J B
Notes:
B – Bhavaṅga
Bc – Bhavaṅga calana
Bu – Bhavaṅga uppaccheda
Mn – Manodvārāvajjana
J – Jhāna

In the case of Magga Vīthi there will be five reviewing thought processes after the attainment of first magga. Each Paccavekkhana Vīthi will reflect on :

(1) Magga achieved
(2) Fruition consciousness
(3) Nibbāna
(4) Eradicated Defilements (Kilesa)
(5) Balance Defilements to be eradicated.

There will be five Paccavekkhana Vīthi after Sotāpatti, Sakadāgāmi and Anāgāmi magga. With regard to Arahantta Magga there will be only four Paccavekkhana Vīthi without the last one (Number Five) mentioned above.

My comment: It would seem that the yogi should be well verse in jhāna to be able to review thought process. So, even though, the yogi has attained the Sotāpatti, Sakadāgāmi, Anāgāmi and Arahatta magga (path), the yogi would not be able to review the five reviewing thought processes listed above unless the yogi is well verse in jhāna. This is only my opinion, unless those with path moment is able to state otherwise.

With mettā, Seng Kiat

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