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Reply To: Two unbroken streams of consciousness (DN28)
…death. One can comprehend this easily with the role of the gandhabba. It is the gandhabba that gives “life” to body parts; when it leaves, the body is lifeless. In…
Wrong English translations of Aniccha, Anatta, Sakkaya ditthi… etc
…answer is – the “gandhabba” (inside your physical body) is the real “you” which experiences pain/pleasure, suffering/happiness,… etc. The gandhabba performs the actions of seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting/touching/thinking. (7) Without going into technical…
Nirōdha Samāpatti, Phala Samāpatti, Jhāna, and Jhāna Samāpatti
…the realms in this world from a time that cannot be traced to a beginning! Kammaja kāya in human or animal realms is also called gandhabba kāya or simply gandhabba….
Reply To: Gandhabba and Cloning
…karmic energy in the gandhabba? When the unsuccessful embryo dies, for some reason such as the effects of the environment on the epigenome etc, will the gandhabba has spent some…
Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa
Hi Allay, Please don’t address questions to just to me. Keep them open. I encourage everyone to participate. 1. Gandhabba cannot make decisions on that. Only gandhabba’s of people who…
Reply To: Anantariya Kamma, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicides
…animal realms it is given a special name “gandhabba”. – The gandhabba or the mental body is trapped inside a solid physical body, and thus is “shielded” form those anantariya…
Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa
…a gandhabba ,and ‘one’ who pulls out or seperates this gandhabba from the physical body. Or, arguably, that it is the gandhabba itself doing this, but, if that were so,…
Do I Have “A Mind” That Is Fixed and “Mine”?
August 30, 2018; revised October 3, 2022; November 28, 2022 You may first read the post “Amazingly Fast Time Evolution of a Thought (Citta)” to have the proper background. 1….
Reply To: First sight of Gandhabba or Subtle body
…AND that of YOUR gandhabba (manomaya kaya)? You said: “There is also difference among Animal and Human gandhabba or manomaya kaya, while in Human, it would like like comet with…