A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…dhatu (or nama loka). Except for nama gotta, the other entities have energies (below the suddhatthaka stage). (iii) all rupa above the suddhatthaka stage are in the rupa loka that…
…of rāga. When one would not prioritize any realm in kāma loka, rupa loka, and arupa loka, the mind will become free, and one will attain Arahanthood. Upon the death…
An important revision to the new post published yesterday, October 9, 2020: “Autobiographical Memory – Preserved in Nāma Loka” I had forgotten to add the video in #7. I just…
October 17, 2017; revised September 15, 2020; December 22, 2023 1. First, a word about the nomenclature: The Pāli word is avyākata (or abyākata) and the Sinhala word is avyākruta….
…of arupa loka Brahmas. 3. One can attain magga phala from kama loka, rupa loka, or arupa loka. However, since seeing and hearing are not possible in arupa loka, only…
…of root causes; see “Six Root Causes – Loka Samudaya (Arising of Suffering) and Loka Nirodhaya (Nibbāna).” 2. One way to look at this is to start with how the…
…loka, rupa loka, or arupa loka. The Buddha explained that to Ven. Ananda in the “Paṭhamabhava Sutta (AN 3.76).” Venerable Ananda asked the Buddha, “Bhante, they speak of this thing…
“The reason why I asked is that there are rūpa(hadaya vatthu) in arūpa realm. So arūpa dhātu is not same the arūpa loka.” Yes. There are rūpa (hadaya vatthu of…
Which suttas refer to the nāma-lōka? (Or even commentaries or sub-commentaries?) This concept of a nāma-lōka makes sense yet searching for it in the suttas, for additional, canonical reference, has…
…belong to vinnana dhatu. – Q. sankata is 12 rupa? or 18 dhatu? In other words, the vinnana dhatu (in the six dhatu context) is included in the sankata category?…