Dasa Māra Senā (Mārasenā) – Ten Defilements
…“pañca kāma” and pursue “jhānic pleasures.” They are reborn in “rupa loka,” where the three “close contacts” are absent. Some of those yogis go beyond jhānās and cultivate arupāvacara samāpatti….
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Clarification of “Mental Body” and “Physical Body” – Different Types of “Kāya”
…realms have different types of “mental bodies.” While a human gandhabba consists of a hadaya vatthu and five pasada rupa (for sensing five types of sensory inputs), an arupa loka…
What is in a Thought? Why Gati are so Important?
Revised March 1, 2020; March 20, 2023 Many confusing terms in Abhidhamma, like citta and mano, have been interpreted differently in different books. To clarify these concepts, I am writing…
Viññāṇaṃ anidassanaṃ can also refers to Nibbana?
…sabbatopabhaṃ. (The place where vinnana is unseen, where it is boundless and full of light at every corner -> refers to Nibbana) or (Vinnana is unseen, where it is boundless…
Reply To: Post on “Namagotta, Bhava, Kamma Bīja, and Mano Loka (Mind Plane)”
…release “an unseen energy” to the nama loka (vinnana dhatu). That energy can bring vipaka during a lifetime or grasp the next birth in a different realm. – It is…
Shuddastaka and frame by frame experience today
…sanna, sankhara and vinnana also behave the same pattern as that of the suddkastaka. Thus, I gained knowledge to see how 8 elements come together and pass away and that…
Heart or organ transplantation in the Buddhadhamma
…the rupa of the mental body related to the total rupa in pancakkhandha? C) What happens to a Brahma being in the arupa loka that has no manomaya kaya and…
Reply To: Post on “Saññā Gives Rise to Most of the Vedanā We Experience”
…“ajjhatta vinnana” because it will not attach to the “distorted sanna” or specifically “distorted kama sanna” in this case. For a puthujjana, the “ajjhatta vinnana” is only the starting point…
Power of the Human Mind – Anariya or Mundane Jhānas
…the kāma loka” are the rupāvacara jhāna, sensory experiences of rupāvacara Brahmās. When a mind transcends the kāma loka, it gets to the mindset of rupāvacara Brahmās. Those are the…
Lōbha, Dōsa, Mōha versus Rāga, Paṭigha, Avijjā
Revised January 2, 2019; February 23, 2021; August 11, 2022; March 22, 2023 Lōbha, Dosa, and Mōha 1. Lōbha is extreme greed; see, “Lōbha, Rāga, and Kāmaccanda, Kāmarāga.” One is…