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Yes. It is a good summary. Thank you, Saket. The following is an essential point that Saket emphasized: “When one reaches Arahant stage, all kinds of gathi are removed, hence…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
Yes. It is a good summary. Thank you, Saket. The following is an essential point that Saket emphasized: “When one reaches Arahant stage, all kinds of gathi are removed, hence…
The new post Purāna and Nava Kamma – Sequence of Kamma Generation states that an Arahant has saññā vipallāsa or “distorted saññā”. #9: The mind of anyone born a human…
Viññāṇa Dhātu has no spatial boundaries 13. So, these dhammā (or kamma bīja) are rūpa that are below the suddhāṭṭhaka stage and are in our “mano loka” or “mental world,”…
May 29, 2026 The Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118) provides a succinct roadmap to Nibbāna. The first stage of Ānāpānasati only involves embracing the ‘Buddha’s worldview’ (‘āna‘) and rejecting the ‘mundane…
…no future suffering of any kind (neither mental nor physical). That is Parinibbana. The Arahant is said to have merged with the Nibbana dhatu forever, never to arise again! …
…release energies preserved in the “vinnana dhatu” as “dhammā” for very long times. Those are the kammic energies that bring kamma vipaka, including rebirth. See, for example, “What are Rūpa?…
…to hit someone with anger, that generates kammic energy. But that kammic energy is deposited in the vinnana dhatu to bring future vipaka for that immoral action. The energy to…
…But the rest of the kammic energy is “deposited” in the vinnana dhatu to bring vipaka for that immoral action in the future. In all cases, a signal must be…
…a lifeform (human, animal, Deva, Brahma, etc) is created using another “packet of kammic energy that had been accumulating in vinnana dhatu.” Any given lifestream has generated many such “packets…
Purāna and Nava Kamma – Sequence of Kamma Generation #9 The mind of anyone born a human (including an Arahant) starts at the kāma dhātu stage. That physical body (and…