Reply To: Sankhara
I think a sotāpanna can find himself in this kind of situation. He or she may do so because he or she is forced to feed his or her family…
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Reply To: Useful Essays from DRARISWORLD and Other Websites – Part 2
…cries of jackals, tigers, leopards and other animals who were coming to the cemetery to feed on the dead bodies. Hearing the cries of those animals, Sopāka became terrified. Shivering…
Reply To: How to deal with abhijja, by Venerable deegoda dhammadassi
…defeat it we need to 1) Starve the bad viññaṇa and 2) Feed the good viññaṇa by thinking about the dhamma. Such that when the stimulus comes up, we will…
Reply To: Why Should I Care About Future Rebirth If There Is No “Me”?
Yes, if you mean that the flow of life is real and will be there as long as the fuel (raga, dosa, moha) to feed it is there. An Arahant…
Reply To: Does the term “Sappurisa” simply refer to a moral person?
Seng Kiat, I am curious about what you “fed” to ChatGPT. Did you “feed it” those suttas or just ask the questions, and it scanned the internet on its own…
Reply To: Does the term “Sappurisa” simply refer to a moral person?
Lal, I did not feed the Suttas to ChatGPT but ask questions and get ChatGPT to list suttas with the term “sappurisa” and later referrence the list of suttas to…
Viññāṇa (Defiled Consciousness)
…vipāka in the future. Both of those two steps are essential; they feed on each other. The more one understands the anicca nature, it is easier to stop such abhisaṅkhāra,…
Reply To: Discourse 4 – Sakkaya Ditthi – What is “a Person”?
…other and feed on each other. This is the key. There is a lot to think about it, and that is what I tried to do emphasize with the 5…
The Four Bases of Mental Power (Satara Iddhipada)
…Because of this, once getting started (slowly), they can lead to explosive growth; these factors feed on each other, and the project becomes self-sustaining. This is called exponential growth. Thus…
Transfer of Merits (Pattidāna) – How Does it Happen?
…is in a state where it can receive such merits, for example, if it is in a gandhabba state. But if the deceased is reborn as an animal or human,…