5. Ariya Metta Bhāvana (Loving Kindness Meditation)
Revised February 11, 2020 The top 10 posts in this section describe the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation. The rest of the posts in this section discuss meditation subjects. They clarify…
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What is “Kāma”? It is not Just Sex
…Another related meaning is “giving priority to mind-made pleasures.” Kāma Is Assigning High Value for Sensory Pleasures in Kāma Loka 1. “Kāma” comes from “kā” meaning “eat or destroy” and…
Vipallāsa (Diṭṭhi, Saññā, Citta) Affect Saṅkhāra
…The subha (pleasurable) vipallāsa is mainly associated with the “olārika sensory pleasures” (taste, smell, and bodily contact) in the realm of kāma loka. No matter how appealing those sensory pleasures…
User’s Guide to Pure Dhamma Website
…Great Forty)“. One of the ten micchā diṭṭhi is “para lōka” (“para loka” in Sinhala), or the world of gandhabba does not exist. Many people think that gandhabba is a…
Reply To: Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma (Bhikkhu Bodhi) – Grave Error on p. 164
“But kamma beeja are stored in the mano loka of each being. The mind is connected with the mano loka. Why is dhamma (e.g. kamma beeja) not directly sensed by…
Reply To: Quick Kamma Vipāka & Dangers of Sense Pleasures
…coming back to kama loka to ‘enjoy’ sense pleasures. For nature to impart kamma vipaka onto us, we need to exist in kama loka. Which implies if we are going…
Reply To: Quick Kamma Vipāka & Dangers of Sense Pleasures
…‘intelligence’. This may not penetrate to the conscious level in most cases. This would be even more the case if one gets to consider the conditions in higher kama loka…
Reply To: How To Improve Our Mindfulness?
Kama raga will keep one bound to kama loka, that is to say with a heavy body, sickness, aging, physical ailments, the need to work … A gathi suitable for…
Reply To: Upādāna, Vanilla Cookies and the Sakadagami Stage
…means one has upadana for them. Then a birth in the kama loka becomes possible. As long as one enjoys and craves jhanic pleasures, that means one has upadana for…
Reply To: gandhabbas or pretas
…to “para loka“. Actually, the term “parolowa” is the Sinhala word for the Pali term “para loka“. I need to revise those posts with the word “paralowa” with “para loka“….