Mental Body Versus the Physical Body
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…
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Reply To: Post on “Memory Records-critical part of five aggregates”
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…
Contamination of the Human Mind Based on a Sensory Input
…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…
Reply To: Post on “Upaya and Upādāna – Two Stages of Attachment”
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…
Reply To: Uppatti Kamma Bhava
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…
Paṭisotagāmi – Moving Toward Satipaṭṭhāna Bhumi and Nibbāna
…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…
Ten Immoral Actions (Dasa Akusala)
…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 World of the…
Three Kinds of Diṭṭhi, Eightfold Paths, and Samadhi
…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…
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…