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…ayatana on: ajjhatta rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara and vinnana XX vineyya rupa. ex) cakku vineyya rupa samphassa ja vedana (somanassa and domanassa) defiled and mind-made sensory input experiences bhava starts…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…ayatana on: ajjhatta rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara and vinnana XX vineyya rupa. ex) cakku vineyya rupa samphassa ja vedana (somanassa and domanassa) defiled and mind-made sensory input experiences bhava starts…
…the ‘conditional aspect’ (‘paccayā‘) in Paṭicca Samuppāda. For example, the ‘vedanā paccayā taṇhā‘ step depends on the strength of the vedanā experienced. The strength of the vedanā (which is ‘samphassa-jā-vedanā‘)…
…increase in attachment, the ‘mind-made vedanā‘ (samphassa-jā-vedanā) also grows. Thus, for certain sensory inputs, it can lead to an ‘intense feeling of joy’ in a puthujjana. That is what induces…
…Next Step – Ajjhatta Viññāṇa Arises 8. Now that cakkhu indriya makes a defiled contact (samphassa) with the ‘mind-made rūpa‘ and becomes cakkhāyatana (cakkhu āyatana). This further contaminates viññāṇa from…
…Yampidaṃ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṃ sukhaṃ vā dukkhaṃ vā adukkhamasukhaṃ vā tampi anattā; tatra te chando pahātabbo …” Translated: “The eye, sights, eye-consciousness, and eye “san-contact” (samphassa) are without essence: you…
…samphassa-ja-vedana. See, “Dukkha Samudaya Starts With Samphassa-Jā-Vedanā” – That is when we start acting with avijja, i.e., that is when we start doing (abhi) sankhara with “avijja paccaya sankhara”. 3….
…world can provide *PERMANENT HAPPINESS* that you run behind them with passion, hate, greed etc. Now, with cessation of this avijjā/ignorance abhisaṅkhāra ceases, defiled viññana cease, salayatana ceases, samphassa ceases,…
…sotapanna‘s Tanha cannot be the level of apayagami. (O) Because apayagami gati has removed. So, in the “arammana – vipaka vinnana – gati to attach – samphassa – samphassa ja…
…samphassa – samphassa ja vedana – tanha” process, “apayagami gati to attach” step can not happen. Therefore, apayagami level tanha can not happen too.” – P.S. Thus, a Sotapanna is…
…“puts together a citta” by automatically incorporating other relevant cetasika according to one’s “gati.” Ekaggata is the salient factor in Samādhi. Consciousness cannot arise without phassa. Note that samphassa differs…