A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…to divide everything in this into six categories: four great elements (pathavi, apo, tejo, vayo), space element (akasa), and viññāna dhatu. All material objects are made of the four great…
…+ 6 vinnana. 2. 12 ayatana(internal + external) is rupakkhanda. 3. 6 vinnana include vedanakkhanda, sannakkhanda, sankarakkhanda, vinnanakkhanda. 4. 18 dhatu = pancakkhanda. According to this statement, internal ayatana(hadaya vatthu…
February 2, 2020; revised August 24, 2021; February 26, 2023 Essential Facts for this post 1. The mental body is far more critical than the physical body. Let me first…
Lal said: “It is in the asankata dhatu (full Nibbaba) AFTER the death of the physical body.” So another way we can say anything about Nibbana is asankata dhatu. Short…
…animals are in “kāma bhava,” the mind of a human or an animal (or any living being in kāma loka) will start at the “kāma dhātu” stage with an “initial…
You are right. I have revised #5 as below: 5. Generating “kāma saññā” at this initial “kāma dhātu stage” does not mean one is already in the “kāma bhava.” Generating…
Tobias: “What means “landing” in relation to kama dhatu, kama sanna, kama sankappa…? I guess it is the purana kamma stage.” That is correct. Tobias: “But how can the Bodhisatta…
…and Sotapanna Stage,” and “Aniccaṁ Vipariṇāmi Aññathābhāvi – A Critical Verse.” Where the Nibbāna is, the world of 31 realms is totally absent; see “Loka and Nibbāna (Aloka) – Complete…
…lives. For explanations on (7)-(10), see “Micchā Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and Sōtapanna Stage.” In particular, para loka is where a gandhabba lives in-between consecutive births with physical human bodies; see “Hidden…
…para loka (with gandhabbas), (vii) mother is not a special person, (viii) father is not a special person, (ix) there are no instantaneous (opapātika) births, (x) there are no samana…