Reply To: The Six Sextets

…when thoughts cease. This is not the case. The same with gati, anusaya, asava, tanha, lobha, dosa, moha etc. It cannot be ourselves. When it ceases we do not cease….

Reply To: A Movie Recommendation – The Matrix

…own defilements which we have created in the past and present lives (anusaya/asava/gati/kiles, etc). The Matrix can be compared to our pancupadanakkhanda (all five of them are mental and fabricates…

Reply To: Dovacassatāsutta AN 6.115

…breathing CAN BE give up a distracted mind temporarily. It WILL NOT help remove any anusaya/bad gati! In the same way, “good friends” that one associates to have a good…

Contamination of a Human Mind – Detailed Analysis

…the corresponding “rupa saññā” about the ārammaṇa grows, too. The mind will start making its own impression of the “external rupa” based on the gati associated with the “natural bhavaṅga…