A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…for sensory inputs. Rupa loka Brahmās receive a false/distorted jhānic saññā and Arupa loka Brahmās receive a false/distorted arupa samāpatti saññā. It is essential to distinguish between the two categories….
…simple terms, “rāga” means to crave things in the world; living beings in kāma, rupa, and arupa loka have kāma rāga, rupa rāga, and arupa rāga respectively. As we have…
…loka, rupa loka, and arupa loka have decreasing levels of suffering. Thus, both sensory faculties for a given existence and the environment in that existence are created by the mental…
…post : Taṇhā – Result of Saññā Giving Rise to Mind-Made Vedanā #2 However, rupa loka Brahmās automatically receive “rupa saññā” or “saññā of the respective jhāna.” For example, those…
…it. “Etadeva khvettha, āvuso, sukhaṁ yadettha natthi vedayitaṁ. This is a very good sutta where Venerable Arahant Sāriputta further explains that the pleasures of Kāma loka, Rūpa loka and Arupa…
…is: “Be released from the loka (aloka; commonly pronounced as āloka) with the disintegration of desire.” As you pointed out, “Aloka would mean transcending the loka, or Nibbana.” That is…
…Arupa Loka Satipaṭṭhāna Bhūmi – Free of Loka Saññā What Does “Paccayā” Mean in Paṭicca Samuppāda? Sotapanna Anugāmi and Anicca/Viparināmi Nature of a Defiled Mind Colors Are Mind-Made (Due to…
…one must have seen the ‘anicca nature’ of the ‘loka‘ or the ‘pañcupādānakkhandha kāya‘ or simply the ‘kāya.‘ One would try to enhance that level of ‘sati‘ and that is…
…said at two particular timestamps. 15:40 – 16:30: I think it is being chanted that the kama loka, the rupa loka, the arupa loka, and …? is of anatta nature,…
…engaging with a kāma saññā for an extended time. That temporarily moves the mind from the ‘kāma loka‘ to ‘rupa loka,‘ i.e., the mind jumps from ‘kāma saññā‘ to ‘jhānic…