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oUser’s Guide to Pure Dhamma Website

oBuddhism – In Charts

▪What is Unique in Buddha Dhamma? (with chart A)

▪Recovering the Suffering-Free Pure Mind

•True Happiness Is the Absence of Suffering (with chart B)

•Uncovering the Suffering-Free (Pabhassara) Mind (with chart B1)

•Each Citta Starts with Distorted Saññā (with chart B2)

•Contamination of the Human Mind Based on a Sensory Input (with chart B3)

▪Pāli Words – Writing and Pronunciation (with chart C)

▪Buddha Dhamma – Foundation (with chart #1)

▪Buddhism without Rebirth and Nibbāna? (with chart #2)

▪Evidence for Rebirth (with chart #3)

▪Essence of Buddhism – In the First Sutta (with chart #4)

▪Five Aggregates – Introduction (with chart #5)

▪Loka Sutta – Origin and Cessation of the World (with chart #6)

▪Saṅkhāra – An Introduction (with chart #7)

▪Kamma And Saṅkhāra, Cetanā And Sañcetanā (with chart #8)

▪Nāmarūpa in Vipāka Viññāṇa (with chart #9)

▪Nāmarūpa in Idappaccayatā Paṭicca Samuppāda (with chart #10)

▪Saḷāyatana Are Not Sense Faculties (with chart #11)

▪Difference between Phassa and Samphassa (with chart #12)

▪Anuseti – How Anusaya Grows with Saṅkhāra (with chart #13)

▪Rūpa, Dhammā (Appaṭigha Rūpa) and Nāmagotta (Memories) (with chart #14)

oBuddha Dhamma – A Scientific Approach

▪Introduction – A Scientific Approach to Buddha Dhamma

▪Theories of Our World – Scientific Overview

▪Mind and Matter – Buddhist Analysis

▪Sensual Pleasures – The Hidden Suffering

▪Kammic Energy Leads to Consciousness

▪Brain and the Gandhabba

•Mind Is Not in the Brain

•Gandhabba in a Human Body – an Analogy

•Persistent Vegetative State – Buddhist View

•Patient H.M. – Different Roles of Brain in Memory

•Memory Recall for Gandhabba in a Human Body

•How Do We See? – Role of the Gandhabba

▪Our Two Worlds – Rūpa Loka and Nāma Loka

•Autobiographical Memory – Preserved in Nāma Loka

•Rūpa and Rūpakkhandha, Nāma and Nāmagotta

•Response to a Sensory Stimulus – Role of Gati/Anusaya

•Ārammaṇa Plays a Critical Role in a Sensory Event

•Nāma Loka and Rūpa Loka – Two Parts of Our World

▪Tipiṭaka – A Systematic Approach

•Tipiṭaka – The Uniqueness of Buddha Dhamma

•Pāli Canon Is Self-Contained but Requires Detailed Explanation

•Vinaya Piṭaka – More Than Disciplinary Rules

•Abhidhamma Piṭaka – Deeper Analyses of Concepts

▪Antarābhava and Gandhabba

•Antarābhava – No Connection to Gandhabba

•Antarābhava Discussion in Kathāvatthu – Not Relevant to Gandhabba

•Interpretation of the Tipiṭaka – Gandhabba Example

▪Buddhahood Controversies – Introduction

▪Pāṭihāriya (Supernormal Abilities) of a Buddha – Part I

▪Pāṭihāriya (Supernormal Abilities) of a Buddha – Part II

oBuddhahood Associated Controversies

oWhat is Buddha Dhamma?

oFoundation of Dhamma

oThe Importance of Purifying the Mind

oSubsection: The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma

▪The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma – Introduction

▪Our Two Worlds: Material and Immaterial

▪31 Realms Associated with the Earth

▪Gandhabba – Only in Human and Animal Realms

▪Body Types in Different Realms – Importance of Manomaya Kāya

▪Gandhabba Sensing the World – With and Without a Physical Body

▪Nibbāna in the Big Picture

oBuddha Dhamma: Non-Perceivability and Self-Consistency

oSaṁsāric Time Scale, Buddhist Cosmology, and the Big Bang Theory

oEvidence for Rebirth

oSubsection: Power of the Human Mind

▪Power of the Human Mind – Introduction

▪Difference Between Jhāna and Stages of Nibbāna

▪Power of the Human Mind – Anariya or Mundane Jhānā

▪Power of the Human Mind – Ariya Jhānā

▪Are There Procedures for Attaining Magga Phala, Jhāna and Abhiññā?

oTransfer of Merits (Pattidana) – How Does it Happen?

oFirst Noble Truth is Suffering? Myths about Suffering

oVinaya – The Nature Likes to be in Equillibrium