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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Levels
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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Levels
…entually take the aeroplane that will take us to our destination. All the various inner spheres and bodies all the way from the Physical Human Body inwards to the Dhamma Body are all nested within one …
This text delves into the concept of the Dhamma Body, highlighting its intricate structure composed of multiple layers, each representing a different…
Understanding the Dhammakāya in Insight Meditation
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Understanding the Dhammakāya in Insight Meditation
called the ‘Coarse Dhammakāya Arahant’ or the ‘Subtle Dhammakāya Arahant’ — the latter two being the bodies of enlightenment of the arahant. The Dhamm…
This text delves into the concept of Dhammakāya Arahant, distinguishing between the Coarse and Subtle Dhammakāya. It explains that these bodies are transcendental and consis…
Understanding the Dhamma Body and Overcoming Mental Defilements
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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Overcoming Mental Defilements
…e them. This is a major difference from the naked (physical) eye to which the defilements are invisible. The limits of our human senses are to know the manifest symptoms of defilements — for example we…
… mental defilements such as greed, hatred, and delusion. It highlights the importance of the Dhamma Body in providing insight into the true nature of these defilements, enabling one to transcend suffer…
Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Significance
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Understanding the Dhamma Body and Its Significance
Dhamma Body, thereby make themselves invulnerable to the action of defilements. In the past we might have be…
The Dhamma Body, or Dhammakāya, represents the essence of Buddhism, highlighting the journey towards enlightenme…
The Journey to Nirvana: Understanding Pathama Magga Sphere
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The Journey to Nirvana: Understanding Pathama Magga Sphere
the temptation of looking for rewards in corruption or power. Your memory and wits will be sharpened and your thinking will be fluent and creative allowing you to find constructive solution…
… Nirvana experienced within the aggregates. The concept of Sa-upādisesa Nirvana is clarified, describing it as a mental state recognizing Nirvana in our present experience, free from defilements but st…
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
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The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering: A Conclusion The Lord Buddha taught that the cessation of su…
The conclusion on the cessation of suffering according to the Buddha highlights the need to extinguish craving through the Noble Eightfold Path. Once craving is el…
Understanding the Mind and Success in Buddhist Practice
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Understanding the Mind and Success in Buddhist Practice
…ifferent functions of the mind are scattered in their separate directions like a group of people unable to work as a team — they cannot pool their abilities efficiently. By 'all success' Luang Phaw W…
This text discusses the four functions of the mind and their impact on achieving success in Buddhist practice, as emphasized by Luang Phaw Wat Paknam. He speaks on the importance of reaching a …
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering
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The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Path to the Cessation of Suffering The final of the four Truths of the Noble Ones t…
The Noble Eightfold Path, the final of the Four Noble Truths, is the way to eliminate suffering and attain …
The Path of Right Actions in Buddhism
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The Path of Right Actions in Buddhism
1. Right View The Buddha taught that Right View is a fiercely accurate understanding of life and the world based on the…
This text elaborates on essential aspects of Buddhism focusing on Right View, which is the accurate understanding …
The Noble Eightfold Path: Ethical Conduct and Mindfulness
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The Noble Eightfold Path: Ethical Conduct and Mindfulness
Stealing [adinnādāna]: Taking that which is not given; Committing adultery [kāmesumicchācarā]: abstaining from sexual relations outside marriage. 5. Right Livelihood The Lord Buddha taught his mon…
This text discusses key principles of the Noble Eightfold Path, focusing on ethical conduct such as Right Speech, Right Action which includes abs…
The Journey to Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
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The Journey to Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
(also called the 'astral body' or 'dream body') all the way up to the various bodies of enlightenment. The meditator can see a…
This text describes the meditative journey towards discovering inner bodies, known as the astral or dream body, and v…
Understanding Suffering and the Subtle Human Body
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Understanding Suffering and the Subtle Human Body
wealth. As the majority of sorts of suffering concerns material things, having attained the subtle human body, the mind, being unified with the subtle human body, is safely withdrawn beyond the r…
This text discusses why most people suffer due to attachment to their physical bodies and possessions, despite intellectually understanding Buddha's teachings on impermanence. The …
Understanding the Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
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Understanding the Inner Bodies and Enlightenment
the centre of the body, in the same way as described earlier, in entering the centre of the Pathama Magga Sphere, succe…
This text discusses the progression through successive inner bodies leading to the Dhammakāya, emphasizing the distinction between mundane and transcendental bodi…
Cultivating Transcendental Knowledge in Buddhism
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Cultivating Transcendental Knowledge in Buddhism
It is for this reason that the Lord Buddha advocated his monks to cultivate transcendental knowledge in order to put themselves beyond th…
The Lord Buddha encourages monks to attain transcendental knowledge to rise above sensuality and eradicate Fal…
Understanding the Mind and Its Layers
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Understanding the Mind and Its Layers
… If the mind is con- centrated, you are mindful that ‘the mind is concentrated’. If the mind is liberated, you are mindful that ‘the mind is liberated’. If the mind is not liberated, you are mindful…
The text delves into the nature of the mind, describing its four concentric layers: perception, sensory registration, central processing, and cognition.…
The Relationship Between Processing, Cognition, and Mindfulness
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The Relationship Between Processing, Cognition, and Mindfulness
processing and cognition are nested together inseparably and as a unit take the form of the subtle physical body. If the four faculties are separated, the…
Processing and cognition are intimately linked, forming the subtle physical body. If four faculties are disconnected, the subtle body ceases to exist, impacting ph…
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… perception filtering processing knowing perception filtering processing knowing The Relationship between the Psychophysical Constituents in the Mental Process
Understanding Mindfulness in the Mind
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Understanding Mindfulness in the Mind
…gistration or cognition. It is no use having mindfulness of any other parts of the mental process — because the layers of the mind cannot exchange roles any more than the moon can exchange its role wit…
…ng on the central processing of the mind, distinguishing it from perception and cognition. It describes the clear nature of the pure mind that becomes tainted by desires and ill will, altering its tran…
Mindfulness and Right Concentration in Buddhism
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Mindfulness and Right Concentration in Buddhism
…hammas* Mindfulness of the *dhammas* in the *dhammas* is to see and consider the mental phenomena both inside and outside, the whole of the time. Seeing the inner mental phenomena is to see the spher…
Dieser Abschnitt behandelt die Achtsamkeit gegenüber Dhammas und die richtige Konzentration im Buddhismus. Di…
The Four Absorptions in Meditation
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The Four Absorptions in Meditation
guish them as follows: The First Absorption which is accompanied by five factors: initial application of mind [vitakka], continued appl…
This text outlines the four absorptions in meditation, detailing the factors involved in each state. The First Absorption is chara…