Reply To: Utuja kaya of Gandhabba
…Utuja rupa are produced by both the kammaja kaya and cittaja kaya and thus that comes next. That is the gandhabba with those three kāya. – When that gandhabba gets…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…Utuja rupa are produced by both the kammaja kaya and cittaja kaya and thus that comes next. That is the gandhabba with those three kāya. – When that gandhabba gets…
Thank you both for your valuable comments. Just a short question to Lal: Soontaneous birth is something that I usually mostly accounted for the Gandhabba state. But I heard something…
…and Body” brain plays a huge role in getting the sensory inputs to the manomaya kaya (gandhabba). – For example, visuals coming through the eyes are processed by the batin…
…which remained same throughout that period? Is it the same Gandhabba undergoing slight modifications but still the same.” Consider a river. A river consists of a flow of water particles,…
Does cravings and attachments inhibit the change and progress of a gandhabba? When one is on a spiritual path, their personality entirely changes as they progress, and there are some…
We are all gandhabbas with physical bodies. – So, we can taste food, smell odors, and touch things (sexual activities included). A gandhabba without a physical body (while waiting to…
…a gandhabba have while it does not have a physical body? We have gross body, sensation, perception, the volition to react and consciousness, does a gandhabba have any of these?…
A Gandhabba also has rupa, but not such gross or dense rupa as this physical body. Lal explained on the articles that a Gandhabba always, at least, has the kammaja…
Cubibobi and Daniel are quite right. Gandhabba has a set of suddhatthaka, “smallest amounts of matter” in Buddha Dhamma. – That is what cubibobi (Lang) referred to as “Rūpa as…
…is true then when someone is possessed, does that mean that a gandhabba has has forcibly entered the body and is coexisting with the original gandhabba of the possessed person?…