Essays – 2019

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Essays – 2019

Dhammā, Kamma, Saṅkhāra, Mind – Critical Connections – 12/28/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Icchā (Cravings) Lead to Upādāna and to Eventual Suffering – 12/21/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Moha/Avijjā and Vipāka Viññāṇa/Kamma Viññāṇa – 12/14/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Taṇhā Paccayā Upādāna – Critical Step in Paṭicca Samuppāda – 12/07/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Vacī Saṅkhāra – Saṅkappa (Conscious Thoughts) and Vācā (Speech) – 11/30/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Kamma, Saṅkhāra, and Abhisaṅkhāra – 11/23/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Paṭicca Samuppāda – A “Self” Exists Due to Avijjā – 11/16/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Taṇhā – The Origin of Suffering – 11/10/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Paṭicca Samuppāda – Not “Self” or “No-Self” – 11/10/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

An Apparent “Self” Is Involved in Kamma Generation – 11/2/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Sakkāya Diṭṭhi in Terms of Attā or “Self” or “Ātma” – 10/26/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Chachakka Sutta – Six Types of Vipāka Viññāṇa 10/19/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Taṇhā) – 10/6/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”)

Vipāka Vedanā and “Samphassa jā Vedanā” in a Sensory Event – 9/29/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Is There a “Self”? – 9/22/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Citta – Basis of Our Experience and Actions – 9/22/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Indriya Make Phassa and Āyatana Make Samphassa – 9/15/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

How Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana? – 9/08/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Contact Between Āyatana Leads to Vipāka Viññāṇa – 9/02/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Buddhist Worldview – Introduction – 8/26/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 2 – 8/19/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 1 – 8/12/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Views on Life – Wrong View of Materialism – 8/04/19 (in the subsection “Views on Life”).

Views on Life – 7/28/19 (in the subsection “Origin of Life”).

Mystical Phenomena in Buddhism? – 8/04/19 (in the subsection “Origin of Life”).

Living Cell – How Did the First Cell Come to Existence? – 7/24/19 (in the subsection “Origin of Life”).

Clarification of “Mental Body” and “Physical Body” – Different Types of “Kāya” – 7/19/19 (in the subsection “Origin of Life”).

Human Life – A Mental Base (Gandhabba) and a Material Base (Cell) – 7/15/19 (in the subsection “Origin of Life”).

Origin of Life – There is No Traceable Origin – 7/10/19 (in a new subsection “Origin of Life”).

Upapatti Paṭicca Samuppāda (How We Create Our Own Rebirths) – 7/6/19 (in the “Paṭicca Samuppāda” section).

Associations (Sevana)- A Root Cause of Wrong Views – 6/29/19 (in the “Sotāpanna Stage and Tilakkhaṇa” section).

Sakkāya Diṭṭhi – Getting Rid of Deeper Wrong Views – 6/22/19 (in the “Sotāpanna Stage and Tilakkhaṇa” subsection).

Sotāpanna Stage and Tilakkhaṇa – 6/22/19 (in the “Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta” section).

Sakkāya Diṭṭhi and Tilakkhaṇa – 6/14/19 (in the “Sotāpanna Stage and Tilakkhaṇa” subsection).

Anatta – No Refuge in This World – 6/7/19 (in the “Anattā – A Systematic Analysis” section).

Anattā in Anattalakkahana Sutta – No Soul or an Ātma – 5/31/19 (in the “Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta” subsection).

Anicca – Inability to Keep What We Like – 5/26/19 (in the “Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta” subsection).

Yamaka Sutta (SN 22.85) – Arahanthood Is Not Annihilation but End of Suffering – 5/23/19 (in the “Sutta Interpretations” subsection).

Idappaccayatā Paṭicca Samuppāda –5/18/19 (in the “Paṭicca Samuppāda“section).

Kamma are Done with Saṅkhāra – Types of Saṅkhāra –5/13/19 (in the “Saŋ” subsection).

Do Buddhists Pray and Engage in Idol Worshipping? –5/5/19 (in the “Myths or Realities?” subsection).

Complexity of the Mind – Viññāṇa and Saṅkhāra – 4/28/19 (in the “Dhamma with Less Pāli” subsection).

Anuloma Paṭiloma Paṭicca Samuppāda – Key to Sotāpanna Stage – 3/15/19 (in the “Sotāpanna Stage of Nibbāna” subsection).

Vitakka, Vicāra, Savitakka, Savicāra, and Avitakka, Avicāra – 3/7/19 (in the “Samādhi, Jhāna (Dhyāna), Magga Phala” subsection).

Attha Purisa Puggalā – Eight Noble Persons – 3/4/19 (in the “Seeking Nibbana” subsection).

Jhānic Experience in Detail – Sāmañ­ña­phala Sutta (DN 2) – 3/2/19 (in the “Samādhi, Jhāna (Dhyāna), Magga Phala” subsection).

Tapussa Sutta (AN 9.41) – Akuppā Cetovimutti – 2/28/19 (in the “Sutta Interpretations” subsection).

Viññāṇa and Saṅkhāra – Connection to Paṭicca Samuppāda – 2/25/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Account of Aṅgulimāla – Many Insights to Buddha Dhamma – 2/17/19 (in the “Dhamma Concepts” subsection).

Sotāpanna Anugāmi – No More Births in the Apāyā – 2/11/19 (in the “Sotāpanna Stage of Nibbāna” subsection).

Sati in Ānāpānasati/Satipaṭṭhāna – Two Meanings of Sati – 2/4/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Ānāpāna and Satipaṭṭhāna – Fundamentals – 1/30/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Buddhism and Evolution – Aggañña Sutta (DN 27) – 1/24/19 (in the “Sutta Interpretations” subsection).

Ānāpānasati Eliminates Mental Stress Permanently – 1/21/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Breath Meditation Is Addictive and Harmful in the Long Run – 1/15/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Connection Between Saṅkhāra and Viññāṇa – 1/11/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Four Noble Truths – Suffering and Its Elimination – 1/6/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Viññāṇa – Consciousness Together With Future – 1/1/19 (in the “Essential Buddhism” subsection).

Pure Dhamma – Reflections on 2018 – 1/1/19