Reply To: Evolution and Gandhabba
I watched the video and the evidence is compelling. Daniel wrote: “Since we know from the Buddha’s Agañña Sutta, that the human gandhabba (or human bhava) is existing for much…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
I watched the video and the evidence is compelling. Daniel wrote: “Since we know from the Buddha’s Agañña Sutta, that the human gandhabba (or human bhava) is existing for much…
…The Gandhabba of the baby left already, but another Gandhabba of a man who died in a nearby village was advised to “seek shelter” (by another spirit) in the dying…
…at a given time. 2. It is possible for a gandhabba to come out of a womb, and for another gandhabba to take possession of that zygote in the womb….
…was 29 years old. As such, the lifetimes of Cary and Parkhurst overlapped by 29 years. – That is not possible. How can the same gandhabba live in two different…
…human births. Here, “pubbe” means “previous,” “nivasa” means “house,” and “anussati” means “recall,” i.e., the knowledge to recall successive residences of a given gandhabba. In a given human bhava, a…
Of course, gandhabba has the five aggregates. As I wrote above, we are all gandhabbas inside “physical shells”. – The physical body is inert (lifeless) when the gandhabba comes out….
“A deeper point is that since a gandhabba does not have a physical body and a brain, citta can just flow “without control”. So the brain helps the mind rest:…
…of the body/Gandhabba. In my view, these phenomena are well explained with Gandhabba as well. (In another forum discussion, we discussed the case of baby-bodys, whose “ownership” can change -one…
…in the “seat of the mind” (hadaya vatthu), which is created by kammic energy. That hadaya vatthu is the critical component of the manomaya kaya (gandhabba).”)? Of course this may…
…so happened that I was reviewing the “old” section on pañcakkhandha: The Five Aggregates (Pañcakkhandha) In this forum, Lal said: 2. When I die, my gandhabba (with hadaya vatthu) will…