Reply To: Goenka´s Vipassana

…Lal has explained what this verse means above (#15237): “All types of vedana coming together to lead to each and all dhammā”. After learning things from puredhamma.net for a while…

Reply To: Tilakhanna III

Can heat in the mind, tapa, be a kamma vipaka or is it Always a samphassa ja vedana, a domanassa vedana? For me, it feels more like it can be…

Reply To: Vitakkasanthana sutta

samphassa-ja-vedana. See, “Dukkha Samudaya Starts With Samphassa-Jā-Vedanā” – That is when we start acting with avijja, i.e., that is when we start doing (abhi) sankhara with “avijja paccaya sankhara”. 3….

Atta – Two Very Different Meanings

…Yampidaṃ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṃ sukhaṃ vā dukkhaṃ vā adukkhamasukhaṃ vā tampi anattā; tatra te chando pahātabbo …” Translated: “The eye, sights, eye-consciousness, and eye “san-contact” (samphassa) are without essence: you…

Asanna realm

…“puts together a citta” by automatically incorporating other relevant cetasika according to one’s “gati.” Ekaggata is the salient factor in Samādhi. Consciousness cannot arise without phassa. Note that samphassa differs…

Reply To: Paccaya

…is. Therefore, the paccaya in the ‘samphassa paccaya samphassa-jā-vedanā’ step is the certain types of anusaya or sangati corresponding to the given ārammaṇa. Is it okay to understand like this?…

Ordering of terms in Paticca Samuppada

For us to generate abhisankhara, defiled vinnana, salyatana, samphassa, samphassa ja vedana, are we not attached to the vipaka (have tanha for it) in the first place? Why is tanha…