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Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

…gandhabba that is using this very body to type’,saying that you cannot be ONLY the gandhabba, for that will not be there when you are in the higher realms. Do…

Reply To: Do Family Members Share The Same Mental Plane?

…in space, with the gandhabba body? In my case, I am positive that did not happen. I could open my eyes and see that I was in my room. Then…

Buddha Dhamma for an Inquiring Mind – Part I

…shells.” It is the mental body (called “gandhabba“) where all thoughts (i.e., saṅkhāra) arise, thereby controlling the physical body. That is why, in many confirmed out-of-body Experiences (OBEs), the body…

Anussati and Anupassanā – Being Mindful and Removing Defilements

…rebirth process or the gandhabba concept is wrong; see “Micca Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and Sotāpanna Stage.” If one has the above views, one cannot comprehend the dukkha nature. The fact that…

Reply To: micca ditthi

…This paralowa or the “nether world” is the world of gandhabbas. Even many Theravadins today do not believe that gandhabba concept is correct: “Hidden World of the Gandhabba: Netherworld (Paralowa)“….

Reply To: With or Without Origin

…how the gandhabba(s) come into all of this. Yes, we are one, but I do not see the rest of it with the gandhabba as the connection. Metta y not…

Reply To: Effect of thoughts when in Gandhabba state

Thank you Lal for the excellent explanation. So, essentially, once in the Gandhabba state, the thoughts (good or bad) of any human beings towards the life that he/she led do…

Reply To: Anantariya Kamma, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicides

…the death of an Anāgāmi, the gandhabba comes out, undergoes cuti, but CAN grasp a bhava in the rūpāvacara brahma realms reserved for the Anāgāmis.’ The question is why ‘can’…

Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

…(gandhabba) from the physical body’? “ No matter how many times you ask, that does not change the answer: It is the “one” who perceives “me” that comes out of…

From human to animal realm and back to human

Hi All, If a human develops skills (such as languages, music, sport etc…) in this life and is reborn in the animal realm, does the gandhabba carry any of these…