Reply To: Pathama Metta Sutta (AN 4.125)
…realms in the 31 realms. We have 11 lower-lying realms in the kama loka. Then we have 16 higher-lying rupavacara realms, and even higher-lying 4 arupavacara realms. Kama loka realms…
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…realms in the 31 realms. We have 11 lower-lying realms in the kama loka. Then we have 16 higher-lying rupavacara realms, and even higher-lying 4 arupavacara realms. Kama loka realms…
…Yes. Dēva belong to kāma loka, and they engage in sex. However, children are born instantaneously (ōpapātika). It is said that equivalent of of a human 16-year-old appears in the…
…100,000 such is a Chtu-sahashri-Loka-datu). Then follow Dasa-Sahashri ( 1 trillion: 1000×10 ^9). This seems to me to accord with the most recent calculations of both the number of stars…
…come back to the kama loka once born in the deva loka. But he MAY attain the Anagami stage, and be born in the brahma realm before attaining Nibbana. In…
Hi Lal, “A Sakadagami will not come back to the kama loka once born in the deva loka. But he MAY attain the Anagami stage, and be born in the…
…creature” In my experience, what he saw was a place of para loka where it was filled with greenery and other beautiful things which is “pure sensual” and he felt…
…– Loka Samudaya (Arising of Suffering) and Loka Nirodhaya (Nibbāna).” Connection Between Saṅkhāra and Cetasika 10. I keep repeating these because it is imperative to understand these fundamental ideas. All…
…loka is supposed to be 9 million years. If he exhausted 7 deva existences in addition to 7 more human jathi after becoming a Sotapanna, all this would not be…
…to the kama loka at all. A Sotapanna with an anariya jhana will also not come back to kama loka. These are discussed in detail with sutta references at: ‘Mundane…
Hi Yeos. If I remember correctly, Lal had said there are two types of asuras. Those from the apayas and those from the deva loka. In my opinion and according…