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User’s Guide to Pure Dhamma Website What is Buddha Dhamma? Foundation of Dhamma The Importance of Purifying the Mind The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma

The Grand Unified Theory of Dhamma – Introduction Our Two Worlds : Material and Mental 31 Realms Associated with the Earth Gandhabba – Only in Human and Animal Realms Body Types in 31 Realms – Importance of Manomaya Kaya Gandhabba Sensing the World – With and Without a Physical Body Nibbāna in the Big Picture

Buddha Dhamma: Non-Perceivability and Self-Consistency Sansaric Time Scale Evidence for Rebirth Power of the Human Mind

Power of the Human Mind – Introduction Difference Between Jhana and Stages of Nibbana Power of the Human Mind – Anariya or Mundane Jhanas Power of the Human Mind – Ariya Jhanas Are There Procedures for Attaining Magga Phala, Jhana and Abhinna?

Transfer of Merits (Pattidana) – How Does it Happen? First Noble Truth is Suffering? Myths about Suffering Vinaya – The Nature Likes to be in Equillibrium

Key Dhamma Concepts

San

What is “San”? Meaning of Sansara (or Samsara) Sankhāra, Kamma, Kamma Beeja, Kamma Vipaka Sankhara – Life is a Bundle of Sankhāra Difference Between Dhamma and Sankhāra Sankhāra and Kammā, Viññāna and Kamma Beeja

Nibbāna

How to Taste Nibbāna Niramisa Sukha Nibbāna – Is it Difficult to Understand? The Four Stages in Attaining Nibbāna What Are Rupa? (Relation to Nibbāna) Does the First Noble Truth Describe only Suffering? Nirödha and Vaya – Two Different Concepts Nibbāna “Exists”, but Not in This World

Anicca, Dukkha, Anattā

Anicca, Dukkha, Anattā – Wrong Interpretations Anicca – True Meaning

Anicca – Inability to Maintain Anything Anicca – Repeated Arising/Destruction Anicca – Worthlessness of Worldly Things

Anattā and Dukkha – True Meanings Anattā – the Opposite of Which Atta? Dasa Akusala and Anattā – The Critical Link How to Cultivate the Anicca Saññā How to Cultivate the Anicca Saññā – II Anicca, Dukkha, Anattā – According to Some Key Suttas If Everything is Anicca Should We Just give up Everything? Why are Tilakkhana not Included in 37 Factors of Enlightenment? Two Versions of 37 Factors of Enlightenment The Incessant Distress (“Peleema”) – Key to Dukkha Sacca

Gathi, Bhava, and Jati

Nama Gotta, Bhava, Kamma Beeja, and Mano Thalaya (Mind Plane) Gathi and Bhava – Many Varieties Gathi to Bhava to Jathi – Ours to Control Memory, Brain, Mind, Nama Loka, Kamma Bhava, Kamma Vipaka Bhava and Jati – States of Existence and Births Therein

Sorting out Some Key Pali Terms (Tanha, Lobha, Dosa, Moha, etc)

Kama Tanha, Bhava Tanha, Vibhava Tanha Tanha – How We Attach Via Greed, Hate, and Ignorance Lobha, Raga and Kamachanda, Kamaraga Lobha, Dosa, Moha Versus Raga, Patigha, Avijjā What is Avijjā (Ignorance)? Indriya and Ayatana – Big Difference Hetu-Phala, Paccuppanna, and Paticca Samuppāda Ditthi (Wrong Views), Sammā Ditthi (Good/Correct Views) Correct Meaning of Vacī Sankhāra

The Five Aggregates (Pancakkhandha)

Five Aggregates – Introduction Sanna (Perception) Vedana (Feelings) Vedana (Feelings) Arise in Two Ways Viññāṇa (Consciousness) Rupa (Material Form) Pancakkhandha or Five Aggregates – A Misinterpreted Concept Pancaupadanakkhandha – It is All Mental

Living Dhamma

Living Dhamma – Overview

Living Dhamma – Introduction Peace of Mind to Nibbāna – The Key Step Starting on the Path Even without Belief in Rebirth

Living Dhamma – Fundamentals

What Are Kilesa (Mental Impurities)? – Connection to Cetasika Suffering in This Life – Role of Mental Impurities Satipattana Sutta – Relevance to Suffering in This Life How Are Gathi and Kilesa Incorporated into Thoughts? Noble Eightfold Path – Role of Sobhana Cetasika Getting to Samadhi Sexual Orientation – Effects of Kamma and Gathi (Sankhāra)

Mundane Sammā Samadhi

Micca Ditthi – Connection to Hethu Phala (Cause and Effect) Suffering in This Life and Paticca Samuppāda Suffering in This Life and Paticca Samuppāda II

Transition to Noble Eightfold Path

Sīla, Samādhi, Paññā to Paññā, Sīla, Samādhi Samādhi, Jhāna (Dhyāna), Magga Phala

Samādhi, Jhāna, Magga Phala – Introduction Ascendance to Nibbana via Jhāna (Dhyāna) Mundane versus Supramundane Jhāna

Mental Body – Gandhabba

Our Mental Body – Gandhabba Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipitaka Antarabhava and Gandhabba Mental Body (Gandhabba) – Personal Accounts Abnormal Births Due to Gandhabba Transformations Satara Āhāra for Mental Body or Gandhabba Micca Ditthi, Gandhabba, and Sotapanna Stage Working of kammā – Critical Role of Conditions

Nāma & Rūpa to Nāmarūpa

Mental Aggregates

What is Sañña (Perception)?

Sañña – What It Really Means Future Suffering – Why It Arises Ditthi, Sañña, and Sankhara – How They Relate

What Is Vedana (Feelings)?

Vedana – What It Really Means

Sankhara – What It Really Means

Rupa Aggregate

What are rūpa? – Dhammā are rūpa too!

Viññāna – What It Really Means

Dhamma and Science

Dhamma and Science – Introduction Good Explanations – Key to Weeding Out Bad Versions of Dhamma

Consciousness and the Brain Matter Creates Mind or Mind Creates Matter?

Consciousness – A Dhamma Perspective

Consciousness Dependence on Number of Dimensions Six Kinds of Consciousness in Our 3-D World Expanding “Consciousness” by Using Technology Expanding “Consciousness” by Purifying the Mind What is Mind? How do we Experience the Outside World?

Consistencies with Science

Second Law of Thermodynamics is Part of Anicca! Quantum Entanglement – We Are All Connected Infinity – How Big Is It? Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Truine Brain: How the Mind Rewires the Brain via Meditation/Habits How Habits are Formed and Broken – A Scientific View

Historical Background

Historical Background – Introduction Methods of Delivery of Dhamma by the Buddha Misconceptions on the Topics the Buddha “Refused to Answer” Misinterpretations of Buddha Dhamma Preservation of the Dhamma Historical Timeline of Edward Conze Why is it Critical to Find the Pure Buddha Dhamma? Key Problems with Mahayana Teachings Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (Lotus Sutra) – A Focused Analysis What is Sunyata or Sunnata (Emptiness)? Incorrect Theravada Interpretations – Historical Timeline Buddhaghosa and Visuddhimagga – Historical Background Buddhaghosa’s Visuddhimagga – A Focused Analysis Background on the Current Revival of Buddha Dhamma Misintepretation of Anicca and Anatta by Early European Scholars

Three Levels of Practice

Moral Living and Fundamentals

The Basics

The Pale Blue Dot…….. The Law of Attraction, Habits, Character (Gathi), and Cravings (Asavas) Habits, Goals, and Character (Gathi) Wrong Views (Micca Ditthi) – A Simpler Analysis Four Noble Truths: Recipe for Problem Solving First Noble Truth – A Simple Explanation of One Aspect Difference between a Wish and a Determination (Paramita)

Calming the Mind

Key to Calming the Mind – The Five Hindrances Solution to a Wandering Mind – Abandon Everything? Right Speech – How to Avoid Accumulating Kamma Three Kinds of Happiness – What is Niramisa Sukha? Learning Buddha Dhamma Leads to Niramisa Sukha Need to Experience Suffering in Order to Understand it? Does Impermanence Lead to Suffering?

Buddha Dhamma and Buddhism

What is Unique in Buddha Dhamma? A Buddhist or a Bhauddhaya? Where to Start on the Path? What Reincarnates? – Concept of a Lifestream Recent Evidence for Unbroken Memory Records (HSAM) Buddhism without Rebirth and Nibbana?

Dhamma Concepts

Ten Immoral Actions (Dasa Akusala) Ten Moral Actions (Dasa Kusala) and Ten Meritorious Actions (Punna Kriya) The Five Precepts – What the Buddha Meant by Them What is Kamma? – Is Everything Determined by Kamma? How to Evaluate Weights of Different Kamma The Four Bases of Mental Power (Satara Iddhipada) Why is it Necessary to Learn Key Pāli Words?

Buddha Dhamma and Morality

Origin of Morality (and Immorality) in Buddhism What does Buddha Dhamma (Buddhism) say about Birth Control? Is Eating Meat an Akusala Kamma (Immoral Deed)? Do Things Just Happen? – The Hidden Causes

Working Towards Good Rebirths

Sansaric Habits, Character (Gathi), and Cravings (Asava) Vagaries of Life and the Way to Seek “Good Rebirths” How to Avoid Birth in the Apayas How the Buddha Described the Chance of Rebirth in the Human Realm

Nakhasikha Sutta Kanakacchapa-sutta Tiṇsamatta Sutta - About Thirty Monks

Kamma, Debt, and Meditation How do we Decide which View is Wrong View (Ditthi)? Three Kinds of Ditthi, Eightfold Paths, and Samadhi Implications of the Rebirth Process in Daily Life and in Society What Does Buddha Dhamma Say about Creator, Satan, Angels, and Demons? Patisandhi Citta – How the Next Life is Determined According to Gathi Kilesa (Mental Impurities), Ditthi (Wrong Views), Samma Ditthi (Good/Correct Views)

Seeking Nibbāna

Gathi (Gati), Anusaya, and Āsava The Way to Nibbāna – Removal of Asavas The Cooling Down Process (Nibbāna) – How the Root Causes are Removed Why is Correct Interpretation of Anicca, Dukkha, Anattā so Important? How to Cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path starting with Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta Difference Between Giving Up Valuables and Losing Interest in Worthless Root Cause of Anicca – Five Stages of a Sankata

Sotāpanna Stage of Nibbāna

The Sotāpanna Stage Why a Sotāpanna is Better off than any King, Emperor, or a Billionaire Myths about the Sotāpanna Stage Sotāpanna Magga Anugami and a Sotāpanna Four Conditions for Attaining Sotāpanna Magga/Phala Sakkaya Ditthi is Personality (Me) View? How Does One Know whether the Sotāpanna Stage is Reached? Assāda, Ādīnava, Nissarana

Assāda, Ādīnava, Nissarana – Introduction How Perceived Pleasures (Assāda) lead to Dukkha Vedana (Feelings) Arise in Two Ways Feelings: Sukha, Dukha, Somanassa, and Domanassa What is “Kāma”? It is not Just Sex Kāma Āsvada Start with Phassa Paccaya Vedana or Samphassa Ja Vedana

Akusala Citta – How a Sotāpanna Avoids Apayagami Citta What is the only Akusala Removed by a Sotāpanna? Udayavaya Ñāna

Udayavaya Ñāna – Introduction Nibbatti Lakkhana in Udayavaya Ñāna Āhāra (Food) in Udayavaya Ñāna Udayavaya Ñāna – Importance of the Cittaja Kaya

Tables and Summaries

Pāli Glossary Pāli Glossary – (A-K) Pāli Glossary – (L-Z) List of “San” Words and Other Pāli Roots The 89 (121) Types of Citta Cetasika (Mental Factors) Rupa (Material Form) – Table Rupa – Generation Mechanisms Rupa Kalapas (Grouping of Matter) Akusala Citta and Akusala Vipaka Citta 37 Factors of Enlightenment Conditions for the Four Stages of Nibbāna Ultimate Realities – Table Citta Vithi – Processing of Sense Inputs 31 Realms of Existence

Paticca Samuppāda

Paticca Samuppāda – “Pati+ichcha”+”Sama+uppäda” Paticca Samuppāda – Overview How Are Paticca Samuppāda Cycles Initiated? Paticca Samuppāda in Plain English

Introduction – What is Suffering? Introduction 2 – The Three Characteristics of Nature Avijja paccaya Sankhara Sankhara paccaya Vinnana – 1 Sankhara paccaya Vinnana – 2 Vinnana paccaya Namarupa Namarupa paccaya Salayatana Difference between Phassa and Samphassa Phassa paccaya Vedana….to Bhava Bhava paccaya Jati….Jara, Marana,…

Paticca Samuppāda Cycles

Avyākata Paticca Samuppāda for Vipāka Viññāna Akusala-Mūla Paticca Samuppāda Kusala-Mūla Paticca Samuppāda Akusala-Mūla Pavutti (or Pravurthi) Paticca Samuppāda

Pattana Dhamma

Pattana Dhamma – Connection to Cause and Effect (Hethu Phala) What Does “Paccaya” Mean in Paticca Samuppāda? Annantara and Samanantara Paccaya Asevana and Annamanna Paccaya

Comments/Reviews

Discussion of Comments

What is Intention in Kamma? Would Nibbana be Possible if Impermanence is the Cause of Suffering? Logical Proof that Impermanence is Incorrect Translation of Anicca “Self” and “no-self”: A Simple Analysis Craving for Pornography – How to Reduce the Tendency

Book Reviews

“Why Does the World Exist?” by Jim Holt “Waking Up” by Sam Harris “The Language of God” by Francis Collins “Spark” by John Ratey

Dhamma and Philosophy

Dhamma and Philosophy – Introduction Philosophy of the Mind Is Buddha Dhamma (Buddhism) a Religion? The Infinity Problem in Buddhism

Bhāvanā (Meditation)

Possible Outcomes of Meditation – Samadhi, Jhana, Magga Phala Getting to Samadhi via Formal Mediation Sessions Are you not getting expected results from meditation? 1. Introduction to Buddhist Meditation 2. The Basics in Meditation 3. The Second Level – Key to Purify the Mind 4. What do all these Different Meditation Techniques Mean? 5. Ariya Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness Meditation) 6. Ānāpānasati Bhāvanā (Introduction)

Arittha Sutta - To Arittha (On Mindfulness of Breathing)

7. What is Ānāpāna?

Ānāpānassatisutta (Majjhima Nikāya 118)

Is Ānāpānasati Breath Meditation? 8. The Basic Formal Ānāpānasati Meditation Possible Effects in Meditation – Kundalini Awakening 9. Key to Ānāpānasati – How to Change Habits and Character (Gathi)

Introduction to Character or Personality (Gathi) A Broad View of the “Person” Trying to be a “Better Person” How Character (Gathi) Leads to Bhava and Jathi

10. Attaining the Sotapanna Stage via Removing Ditthasava 11. Magga Phala via Cultivation of Saptha Bojjanga 12. Key Factors to be Considered when “Meditating” for the Sotapanna Stage 13. Kammattana (Recitations) for the Sotapanna Stage Dasa Samyōjana – Bonds in Rebirth Process New Approach to Meditation Myths about Meditation A Simple Way to Enhance Merits (Kusala) and Avoid Demerits (Akusala) Is Suffering the Same as the First Noble Truth on Suffering? What is Samadhi? – Three Kinds of Mindfulness Panca Indriya and Panca Bala – Five Faculties and Five Powers How to Attain Samadhi via “Vipassana Pubbanga Samatha” Bhavana

Abhidhamma

Abhidhamma – Introduction Mind and Consciousness

What is Consciousness? 1. Thoughts (Citta), Consciousness (Viññāṇa), and Mind (Hadaya Vatthu) – Introduction 2. Viññāṇa (Consciousness) can be of Many Different Types and Forms 3. Viññāṇa is not a Thought and What is the Subconscious?

Citta and Cetasika

Citta and Cetasika – How Vinnana (Consciousness) Arises What is a Thought? What is in a Thought? Why Gathi are so Important? Cetasika – Connection to Gathi Javana of a Citta – The Root of Mental Power

Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya)

Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya) – Introduction Does any Object (Rupa) Last only 17 Thought Moments? Hidden World of the Gandhabba: Netherworld (Paralowa) Ghost in the Machine – Synonym for the Manomaya Kaya? Manomaya Kaya (Gandhabba) and the Physical Body Brain – Interface between Mind and Body Manomaya Kaya and Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) Cuti-Patisandhi – An Abhidhamma Description

Why Do People Enjoy Immoral Deeds? – Ditthi Is Key Key to Sotāpanna Stage – Ditthi and Vicikicca The Origin of Matter – Suddhashtaka What are Dhamma? – A Deeper Analysis

24 conditional relations Paccaya

Pabhassara Citta, Radiant Mind, and Bhavanga

Buddhist Chanting

Buddhist Chanting – Introduction Namaskaraya – Homage to the Buddha Supreme Qualities of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha The Five Precepts – Panca Sila Sutta Chanting (with Pali Text) Sadhu – Symbolizes Purified Hadaya Vatthu (Mind)

Dhammapada

Sabba Papassa Akaranan…. Appamadö Amata Padam…. Najajja Vasalo Hoti…… Arogya Parama Labha.. Anicca vata Sankhara… Attā Hi Attano Nātho

Sutta Interpretations

Sutta – Introduction Pāli Dictionaries – Are They Reliable? Nikaya in the Sutta Pitaka Sutta Learning Sequence for the Present Day Maha Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta

Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta – Structure Satipaṭṭhāna – Introduction Kayanupassana – Section on Postures (Iriyapathapabba) Kayanupassana – The Section on Habits (Sampajanapabba) Prerequisites for the Satipaṭṭhāna Bhāvanā What is “Kaya” in Kayanupassana?

Mahā Chattarisaka Sutta (Discourse on the Great Forty)

Mahācattārīsaka Sutta

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta – Introduction

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta Text

Majjima Patipada – Way to Relinquish Attachments to this World Tiparivattaya and Twelve Types of Nana (Knowledge) Relinquishing Defilements via Three Rounds and Four Stages

Myths or Realities?

Animisa Locana Bodhi Poojawa – A Prelude to Acts of Gratitude Paramita and Niyata Vivarana – Myths or Realities? Tisarana Vandana and Its Effects on One’s Gathi Does the Hell (Niraya) Exist? Can Buddhist Meditation be Dangerous?

Abhidhamma via Science

Neuroscience says there is no Free Will? – That is a Misinterpretation! The Double Slit Experiment – Correlation between Mind and Matter? Vision (Cakkhu Vinnana) is Not Just Seeing

References

List of Pāli words with diacritical mark Popup Pali Glossary with Pronunciation Reflections on 2015 Reflections on 2016 Buddha Dhamma – In a Chart Niramisa Sukha – In a Chart New / Revised Posts

Parinibbāna of Waharaka Thero Google Translations to Other Languages Pure Dhamma Discussion Forum Guidelines April – July 2017 January – March 2017 Essays – 2016

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Revised Posts – 2014

Pure Dhamma Essays in Book Format Pure Dhamma – Sinhala Translation Pure Dhamma – German Website Reflections on 2014 Ancient teeth found in China challenge modern human migration theory Mars Curiosity Photos Suggest Life May Have Existed on Red Planet Recent Publications on Benefits of Meditation Laniakea: Our home supercluster Think Outside the Box! There are as many creatures on your body as there are people on Earth! News Article on Robin Williams and Buddhist Meditation World Historical Timeline Second Largest Religion by State in the US Introduction to “Rebirth by Francis Story” – Ian Stevenson Thirty One Planes of Existence Curiosity Rover finds Crater probably was once a Giant Martian Lake Did Not Get a Response to Your Comment?

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