Reply To: sakkaya ditthi and asmi mana
…Dhamma” section starts off with simple concepts. But there are only a few who can really understand the last subsection on nama rupa. Of course there could be Arahants who…
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Tilakkhana – English Discourses
February 3, 2018; revised February 11, 2020; July 28, 2022 (note on Discourse 4) Tilakkhana or Three Marks of Existence or Three Characteristics of Nature (anicca, dukkha, anatta) are discussed…
Reply To: Discourse 4 – Sakkaya Ditthi – What is “a Person”?
…in the nama loka for a very long time, until their energies slowly run out. If suitable conditions appear they then bring vipaka via kammaja rupa. For example, at the…
Quantum Mechanics and Dhamma – Introduction
March 13, 2018; last revised February 8, 2026 Introduction 1. This section will discuss two issues: A new interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM) based on non-locality is presented, in which…
Reply To: Thai Forest Tradition
@drs8 1. Those statements sound like those intriguing Zen verses. Basically no one really understands them, but they sound deep and important! For example, “The mind sent outside is the…
Reply To: What happens to an arahant after death
…for those rupa which have anicca nature. Thus one’s mind will become FREE. In the language of Abhidhamma, nama (or mind) will stop craving for rupa, and thus namarupa formation…
Reply To: Wrong English translations of Aniccha, Anatta, Sakkaya ditthi… etc
…here. So, I’m continously wiping away the “gold” dust. Also, “gold” is associated with high value (fruitfulness), but the truth is the more valuable rupa and nama are in this…
Kukkuravatika Sutta (Majjhima Nikāya 57) – Kammakkhaya
…vacīsaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharoti, sabyābajjhaṃ manosaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharoti. So sabyābajjhaṃ kāyasaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ vacīsaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ manosaṅkhāraṃ abhisaṅkharitvā, sabyābajjhaṃ lokaṃ upapajjāti. Tamenaṃ sabyābajjhaṃ lokaṃ upapannaṃ samānaṃ sabyābajjhā phassā phusanti. So sabyābajjhehi phassehi phuṭṭho…
Reply To: Micca Ditthi, Gandhabba, and Sotapanna Stage
…in truth all is made up of mind, first nama (intangible)and then rupa (material, gross or fine). And Lal knows that, no need to say. So what he meant was…
Reply To: First sight of Gandhabba or Subtle body
…by key words like sankhara and vinnana; see, “Nāma & Rūpa to Nāmarūpa“. Donna (inflib) probably knows this, but I just wanted to point it out for the general audience….