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…physical body. That is another type of jāti. The gandhabba must enter a matching womb (okkanti). That can take days, months, or years after the gandhabba was born at the…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…physical body. That is another type of jāti. The gandhabba must enter a matching womb (okkanti). That can take days, months, or years after the gandhabba was born at the…
…will discuss how saññā leads to “mind-made vedanā.” A Newborn Cannot Recognize Many Things (Saññā Not Developed)! 2. Our thoughts arise in the mental body (gandhabba) trapped inside the physical…
…Buddha’s explanation. I did not deny that DNA plays a role in the physical human body. After a human gandhabba is born with a physical body, DNA plays a role…
…took another existence?” Do you understand the difference between “bhava” and “jati” for a human? When first grasping the “human existence (bhava),” a human gandhabba is born. It has a…
Until a gandhabba merges with it, a zygote (produced by an egg and a sperm) is “lifeless.” However, with the merging of a gandhabba, that zygote becomes alive—as alive as…
Yes. A human has a subtle/invisible “manomaya kaya (gandhabba)” and a physical body. Brahmas only have a manomaya kaya (no physical body), which is not called a gandhabba. In humans,…
…Gandhabba“ However, to understand advanced posts like those, one must have a good background about kammic energy, viññāṇa, gandhabba, etc. May be reading such a post can get someone motivated…
…the gandhabba close to our physical heart. Since it takes time for our brains to analyze the “incoming data,” typically, there is about a 100th of a second delay between…
…in the “human bhava,” one becomes a gandhabba and has to wait until a suitable womb becomes available; see “Mental Body – Gandhabba.” Thus rebirth in the human realm does…
…mundane Eightfold Path by getting rid of the ten types of micchā diṭṭhi. That includes not believing in rebirth and the concept of a gandhabba; see, “Micchā Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and…