A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…sphere of sensual desire (kama loka). It is only in the brahma realms that you have the sphere of fine materiality (rupa loka) and the sphere of non-materiality (arupa loka)….
…does that one action of APK not guarantee a destination to a brahma loka after death, why does that one APK not count regardless of what happens throughout the rest…
A living cell is the basis of a physical body. The mental aspects come from the manōmaya kāya or gandhabba. July 15, 2019; rewritten November 30, 2024 Current Scientific Understanding…
…comprehension of Tilakkhana. Then rebirths in the kama loka, rupa loka, and arupa loka will be stopped in that order. Rebirth process (and ANY suffering) will be over at the…
…bhava dies and then wanders through para loka. Suppose that in total he has spent 300 years living as human, and 400 years as a gandhabba in para loka. After…
…loka (six Deva realms, the human realm, and the four apāyā) have all six units listed in #3 above. Examples of Various Existences 5. Without getting deeper into Paṭicca Samuppāda,…
…Abhidhamma Piṭaka. For example, in the above post, I pointed out the number of possible cittās in kāma loka as 54. In contrast, those in the rupa and arupa loka…
…among the realms in the kāma loka, rupa loka, and arupa loka will continue. As we have discussed many times, the problem is that MOST of those rebirths will not…
…rupa/arupa loka when they transcend “kama gati“. – Then in the 11 realms in “kama loka” they are born according to sub-categories of “kama gati“. Those who go to extremes…
…to dukkha). 8. In the 31 realms, one is born with a dense body (kāma loka), fine-material body (rūpa loka), or only a trace of “matter” in the form of…