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…“latent tendencies are in our gati. Anusaya and “gati” are closely related. See “The Law of Attraction, Habits, Character (Gati), and Cravings (Āsavas)” and “Āsava, Anusaya, and Gati (Gati).” Everyone…
…mind.) 3. The “salāyatana paccayā phassa” combines two steps. For seeing, “Cakkhuñca paṭicca rūpe ca uppajjāti cakkhu viññāṇaṃ and tiṇṇaṃ saṅgati phasso.” Here, “saṅgati phasso” is “saṅ gati phasso” or…
…Gati (Character/Habits) and Anusaya (Latent Defilements) 1. To get started, we must review what we discussed in the previous post, “Response to a Sensory Stimulus – Role of Gati/Anusaya.” In…
…character (gati). Although we can change our gati, what causes us to change our gati? The 5 aggregates! Or the “gati to change our gati”. So the decision to change…
…both punna and apunna kamma, i.e., they sometimes have “apayagami gati” and have “good gati” other times (depending the circumstances.) 2. It is impossible to get rid of “apayagami gati”…
…gati” – Normally those with “purisa gati” have dominant character, self-reliant, etc. – Those with “itthi gati” are less aggressive, depend on others to some extent, etc. Even though those…
…his moral gati and his drive to find truth in past lives. Then, when more “Buddha gati” are acquired and firmly established with time, a later Buddha may give “niyata…
…the rupa (or ārammaṇa) the mind may have already attached to that ārammaṇa based on our gati. Thus, if one sees a figure compatible with one’s gati, the initial “attraction”…
…of the person (character/habits or gati). Gati is sometimes written as gathi as is pronounced in conventional English. However, there is a “Tipiṭaka English convent” adopted in the 1800s to…
…the “cumulative result” of all one’s actions in the deep past. These manifest as our character (or “gati” or “gati“) or saṃsāric habits (or “āsavas”). Many posts on this issue…