Reply To: Fundamental Questions on Pure Dhamma’s Methodology
…the mind has overcome not only the ‘nava kamma‘ stage but also kama guna, and is trying to overcome the ajjhatta and bahiddha stages early in the ‘purana kamma‘ stage….
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Nibbāna – Rāgakkhaya Dosakkhaya Mohakkhaya – Part 1
February 19, 2021; revised August 5, 2023 Nibbāna is defined as “rāgakkhayo dosakkhayo mohakkhayo—idaṃ vuccati nibbānan’ti” OR “Nibbāna is the ending of rāga, dosa, and moha.” What Is Nibbāna? 1….
Reply To: Post On Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Tanhā)
…Arahant. Please read the relevant posts and cite the bullet numbers if I had said anything different. “Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Tanhā)” “Kāma Guna, Kāma, Kāma Rāga, Kāmaccandha“…
Reply To: Post On Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Tanhā)
I went through the following two posts carefully. Both of them need to be rewritten. I have trimmed the content in the two posts until I rewrite them. Kāma Guna,…
Post on “Upaya and Upādāna – Two Stages of Attachment”
It is a minor issue. The recent post Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Tanhā) wrote: #9 At the outset of that process, a “defiled viññāna” arises as “bahidda viññāna”…
Nāmarūpa Paccayā Salāyatana
…on whether greed was involved.) But just eating a cake is not abhisaṅkhāra; see, “Kāma Guna, Kāma, Kāma Rāga, Kāmaccanda”. Most of the time, we use our sense faculties as…
10. Attaining the Sotāpanna Stage via Removing Ditthasava
…one increasingly will lose CRAVINGS for them; see, “Kāma Guna, Kāma, Kāma Rāga, Kāmaccanda.” 13. November 11, 2016: I get many questions on this topic, i.e., how to verify one…
Anussati and Anupassanā – Being Mindful and Removing Defilements
…sense pleasures”; see “The Cooling Down Process (Nibbāna) – How Root Causes are Removed” and “Kāma Guna, Kāma, Kāma Rāga, Kāmaccanda.” For anyone interested in meditation, such basics must be…
Reply To: critcial role of namagotta
…the sweetness of sugar is not the same as having craving for it. An Arahant tastes the sweetness of sugar, but does not form any attachments; see, “Kāma Guna, Kāma,…
How Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana?
…thought that involves abhisaṅkhāra will turn indriya to āyatana. Just eating a cake does not involve abhisaṅkhāra, but having greedy thoughts about it does; see, “Kāma Guna, Kāma, Kāma Rāga,…