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September 22, 2019

 

“Recovering the Suffering-Free Pure Mind” (Necessary Background Material of August 9, 2023; extracted from “Buddhism – In Charts”)

•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)

•Contamination of a Human Mind – Detailed Analysis (with chart B3)

Does “Anatta” Refer to a “Self”? (new section started October 2, 2023)

•Cognition Modes – Sañjānāti, Vijānāti, Pajānāti, Abhijānāti

•Anicca Nature – Chasing Worldly Pleasures Is Pointless

•Aniccaṁ Vipariṇāmi Aññathābhāvi – A Critical Verse

•Dukkha – Previously Unknown Truth About Suffering

•Etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’ti – Connection to Taṇhā, Māna, Diṭṭhi

•“Attā” as “Self” – Wrong Translation in Many Suttās

•“Attato Samanupassati” and Sotāpanna Stage

•Saññā Vipallāsa – Distorted Perception

•Saññā – All Our Thoughts Arise With “Distorted Saññā”

•Upaya and Upādāna – Two Stages of Attachment

 

Sensory Experience – Basis of Buddha’s Worldview (Older posts extracted from “Origin of Life”)

•Buddhist Worldview – Introduction

•Contact Between Āyatana Leads to Vipāka Viññāṇa

•How Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana?

•Indriya Make Phassa and Āyatana Make Samphassa

•Citta – Basis of Our Experience and Actions

•Vipāka Vedanā and “Samphassa jā Vedanā” in a Sensory Event

•Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Taṇhā)

•Vision Is a Series of “Snapshots” – Movie Analogy

•Do I Have “A Mind” That Is Fixed and “Mine”?

•Chachakka Sutta – Six Types of Vipāka Viññāṇa

•Sakkāya Diṭṭhi in Terms of Attā or “Self” or “Ātma”

•An Apparent “Self” Is Involved in Kamma Generation

 

Subsection: “Paṭicca Samuppāda – Not ‘Self’ or ‘No-Self’” [Actual location at Worldview of the Buddha under the section Views on Life]

Conclusion: “Origin of Life – One Creates One’s Own Future Lives“

– That only leads to more suffering. Creating new lives stops with attaining Nibbāna/Arahanthood.