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Origin of Life – There is No Traceable Origin
Human Life – A Mental Base (Gandhabba) and a Material Base (Cell)
Clarification of “Mental Body” and “Physical Body” – Different Types of “Kāya”
Four Types of Births in Buddhism
Buddhist Explanations of Conception, Abortion, and Contraception replaces (11Nov2018) “What does Buddha Dhamma (Buddhism) say about Contraception?”
Living Cell – How Did the First Cell Come to Existence?
•Views on Life – Wrong View of Materialism
•Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 1
•Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 2
oBuddhist Worldview – Introduction
oContact Between Āyatana Leads to Vipāka Viññāṇa
oHow Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana?
oIndriya Make Phassa and Āyatana Make Samphassa
oThe Framework of Buddha Dhamma
oThe Suffering (Dukkha) in the First Noble Truth
oDangers of Ten Types of Wrong Views and Four Possible Paths
oSammā Diṭṭhī – Only One Leads to the Noble Path
oFear of Nibbāna (Enlightenment)
oGhost 1990 Movie – Good Depiction of Gandhabba Concept
oMental Body Versus the Physical Body
oSensory Experience - Basis of Buddha’s Worldview [Actual location at Is There A “Self”? section]
▪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
oPaṭicca Samuppāda – Not “Self” or “No-Self”
▪Taṇhā – The Origin of Suffering
▪Paṭicca Samuppāda – A “Self” Exists Due to Avijjā
▪Kamma, Saṅkhāra, and Abhisaṅkhāra
▪Vacī Saṅkhāra – Saṅkappa (Conscious Thoughts) and Vācā (Speech)
▪Taṇhā Paccayā Upādāna – Critical Step in Paṭicca Samuppāda
▪Moha/Avijjā and Vipāka Viññāṇa/Kamma Viññāṇa
▪Icchā (Cravings) Lead to Upādāna and to Eventual Suffering
▪Dhammā, Kamma, Saṅkhāra, Mind – Critical Connections
▪Paṭicca Samuppāda – From Mind to Matter