“Self” and “no-self”: A Simple Analysis – Do We Always Act with Avijjā?
October 23, 2015; revised August 14, 2019; July 30, 2022 I like to address two comments that I recently received. Questions such as these bring out significant issues that help…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
October 23, 2015; revised August 14, 2019; July 30, 2022 I like to address two comments that I recently received. Questions such as these bring out significant issues that help…
Hallo Lal. Lal wrote. Dhamma and Dhammā – Different but Related Dhammā means to “bear or give rise to things in this world,” and Dhamma explains how. Buddha Dhamma explains…
…Those sankhara are generated due to avijja via “avijja paccaya sankhara.” Then it creates or feeds the “lustful vinnana” via “sankhara paccaya vinnana.” That then goes through the rest of…
Dhamma rightfully views consciousness as a manifestation of causes and conditions (therefore, various kinds of viññāṇa), but other religions portray it as something continuous like a “soul”. For example, the…
No. Pancakkhandha (absent of distorted or defiled rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara, vinnana) arise only in an Arahant while in “Arahant phala samaptti.” Only then do all those five entities arise…
Even though it may first appear to be make it more complicated, vinnana is related to kamma beeja. It is the defiled consciousness or vinnana that creates kamma beeja: “Viññāna…
…end of vinnanakkhandha in order to experience vipaka vinnana or is there another way where someone can experience vipaka vinnana without that persons’ citta evolving all the way to vinnanakkhandha?…
All citta (except for an Arahant) go through nine stages. That happens within a billionth of a second. That applies to kamma vinnana or vipaka vinnana. – Note that what…
…by a cakkhu vinnana, sota vinnana, ..mano vinnana citta. – It is initiated by a pañcadvāravajjana citta or a manōdvāra citta 3. I am still not clear about the whole…
…the cakkhu vinnana that arises first. By the time we have the experience, they are contaminated due to our gati. What we experience is vinnanakkhandha, not citta or even vinnana….