A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…saññī; Evaṁ sametassa vibhoti rūpaṁ, Saññā nidānā hi papañca saṅkhā”. As we discussed, accumulation to pañcupādānakkhandha/pañca upādānakkhandha (or “loka samudaya” according to the Buddha; see “Loka Sutta – Origin and…
…three realms of Kama Loka, Rupa Loka, Arupa Loka because rebirth has stopped. Nibbāna, for me, therefore, means being freed from existential captivity or having erased the three (“san”>>”sam”) existential…
…trajectory of the bullet is namagotta. (Of course, the bullet is inert. But I hope this example can convey my thought.) The fired bullet will continue to move until it…
Yes. Those are good summaries. #6 can be improved. Vinnanakkhandha synthesizes the above four (nama and rupa). Bahidda vinnana (vipaka vinnana) = only nama; ajjhatta vinnana (kamma vinnana) is the…
The point is the following: 1. Namagotta (memories) are preserved in vinnana dhatu as the mental aggregates. They don’t have energies but records. We need to make an effort to…
“#1 They are not located anywhere but are everywhere all time.” Yes. They are in vinnana dhatu. The Buddha revealed that. Even today, scientists are aware of only five dhatu:…
June 10, 2016; revised January 24, 2020; July 21, 2024 Gandhabba Is The “Mental Body” of a Human 1. Physical bodies are just temporary shelters for the gandhabba. In a…
…Therefore, cittaja kalāpās do not arise. Thus in kāma loka and rupa loka, the process of the arising of material phenomena should be understood in two ways, that is (1)…
…environment only via the audio and video equipment mounted on the tank. The video cameras, for example, can feed videos to an onboard computer, which analyzes and displays it on…
…the kamma bhava (in viññāṇa dhatu) and can “come back to your mind” and remind you that you need to act on it. So, even a few days later, you…