A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…paccaya namarupa”). Those three processes (“avijja paccaya sankhara,” sankhara paccaya vinnana,” and “vinnana paccaya namarupa”) may go back and forth uncountable times, generating “namarupa” or “kamma bija” that get deposited…
…a kamma vinnana with that expectation. But once meeting the Buddha, that kamma vinnana was nullified. The kammic energy created by his previous actions is still there in vinnana dhatu….
…the idea. Kamma vinnana waits in the vinnana dhatu until it returns to the mind as dhammā. I was aware of this point, but I didn’t realize that the part…
…due to upādāna (“taṇhā paccaya upādāna“): vaṇṇa, gandha, rasa, and ojā. In the 11 realms of kāma loka, the root cause of taṇhā (reason for upādāna) is kāma saññā. Similarly,…
Hi There, my question actually refers to two posts. They both describe 20 types of sakkāya ditthi but in different ways. In the post Sakkāya Diṭṭhi – Wrong View of…
Chachakka Sutta – Six Types of Vipāka Viññāna #2 second bullet If that rūpa has a kāma guna, one may get interested in it (if one has the corresponding “san…
September 26, 2021; revised August 25, 2022 Summary of the Previous Post 1. In the previous post, “Anatta in Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta – Part 1,” we reached the following conclusions: Anattalakkhaṇa…
…the mind does is compare the “picture taken” to what it has stored and create vinnana. Lal has mentioned how the mind is “covered” which keeps us from seeing past…
…all five aggregates (rupa, vedanā, saññā, saṅkhāra, vinnana) are of an anicca nature. Therefore, per #3 above, all five aggregates are of the anatta nature too! That is specifically stated…
Christian wrote: “The problem with checking is that person who checks it needs to have considerate high panna too.” Yes. That could be correct regarding deeper aspects of Buddha Dhamma,…