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Thank you for another wonderful post. #7 “…50 people have such vivid and detailed “re-living” of past experiences means that those detailed records have been kept somewhere.” Does the “re-living”…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
Thank you for another wonderful post. #7 “…50 people have such vivid and detailed “re-living” of past experiences means that those detailed records have been kept somewhere.” Does the “re-living”…
Revised April 29, 2021; January 23, 2023 I have to use too many Pāli words in posts with advanced concepts. There are no short phrases in English to give the…
…Anāgāmi stage (who have not fully grasped how “bahidda saññā” (in the kāma loka) arises, would automatically be attached to that “bahidda saññā,” thinking it would benefit oneself. Also see…
Dasa samyōjana are the ten “chains” or “bonds” that bind one to the rebirth process (with saṃsāric bonds.) August 6, 2017; revised February 14, 2018; August 7, 2022; rewritten July…
In the post Six Root Causes – Loka Samudaya (Arising of Suffering) and Loka Nirodhaya (Nibbana), it is written in #4: However, amōha is not a cētasika (mental factor), and…
…Arupāvacara Brahmās with only the mind live in four realms in the “arupa loka.” Also, see “How Character (Gati) Leads to Bhava and Jāti.” Living beings in “kāma loka” receive…
…Or it just does not start in any dhatu? My guess: it probably does not attach to any dhatu. step 2: ajjhatta vinnana “sanna ->sankappa” sensory input: arammana using ayatana…
Revised May 20, 2016; December 22, 2018; July 6, 2019; August 21, 2019 1. According to Buddha Dhamma, EVERYTHING in existence can be put into four ultimate realities (paramattha): Thoughts…
…not sankhara but are Dhamma, do not lead to any suffering. However, one can get to suffering by generating sankhara about nama gotta. Sankhara are all mental. Nama gotta are…
Rupa and Rupakkhandha, Nāma and Nāmagotta I recently learned about aphantasia, which is the inability to visualize mental images. In the above post, under section 4: “Only when you recall…