How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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Hello my friends.
Let's share how we imagine other beings of Saṃsāra!

Use this as a reference: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dha ... /loka.html

Here are how I imagine some of them:

Petas

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Four Great Kings and Sakka

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Yama Devas

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Devas Delighting in Creation

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Unconscious beings (asaññasatta)

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Peerless devas (akanittha deva)
Fourth Jhāna. Anagamis' realm.

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Infinite Space devas

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Infinite Consciousness devas

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Nothingness devas

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Neither-perception-nor-non-perception devas

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Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
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See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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i wpuld imagine them acc to hindu art
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confusedlayman wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:27 pm i wpuld imagine them acc to hindu art
Hindu art is beautiful.
Saw earlier this illustration of Gotama cutting his hair. Very beautiful.

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Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
Dīgha Nikāya 17
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rhinoceroshorn wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:36 pm
confusedlayman wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 12:27 pm i wpuld imagine them acc to hindu art
Hindu art is beautiful.
Saw earlier this illustration of Gotama cutting his hair. Very beautiful.

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because some of the hindu gods are artisitic painting based on real observance.


i think some gods seen by astetics in meditation and they reveal to people and based on that people draw or make statues... but modern world calls it mythology...
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:)
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rhinoceroshorn
Hindu art is beautiful
Personally I don't like it. Its too idealistic. I prefer art that has more realism to it. Art that shows how the Buddha likely would have looked. For example, it would be nice to see some art where he was an old man.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:04 pm:)
wow so accurate and validated as real creatures by me.
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:05 pm rhinoceroshorn
Hindu art is beautiful
Personally I don't like it. Its too idealistic. I prefer art that has more realism to it. Art that shows how the Buddha likely would have looked. For example, it would be nice to see some art where he was an old man.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aF ... KCV-GiRMPc
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:04 pm:)
:jumping:
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
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See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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One of the frozen realms.
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understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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:twisted:
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understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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confusedlayman wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:09 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:05 pm rhinoceroshorn
Hindu art is beautiful
Personally I don't like it. Its too idealistic. I prefer art that has more realism to it. Art that shows how the Buddha likely would have looked. For example, it would be nice to see some art where he was an old man.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aF ... KCV-GiRMPc
Fake.
THIS is realism
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Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
Image
See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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confusedlayman wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:09 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:05 pm rhinoceroshorn
Hindu art is beautiful
Personally I don't like it. Its too idealistic. I prefer art that has more realism to it. Art that shows how the Buddha likely would have looked. For example, it would be nice to see some art where he was an old man.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aF ... KCV-GiRMPc
That isn't realistic. The Buddha wouldn't have that hair. He would be bald.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:42 pm
confusedlayman wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:09 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2020 3:05 pm rhinoceroshorn



Personally I don't like it. Its too idealistic. I prefer art that has more realism to it. Art that shows how the Buddha likely would have looked. For example, it would be nice to see some art where he was an old man.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14aF ... KCV-GiRMPc
That isn't realistic. The Buddha wouldn't have that hair. He would be bald.
I think he is depicted like that due to the eighty minor marks.
His hair has the colour of a dark shadow.
His hair is strongly scented.
His hair has the scent of a white lotus.
He has curled hair.
His hair does not turn grey.
He has fine hair.
His hair is untangled.
His hair has long curls.
Eyes downcast, not footloose,
senses guarded, with protected mind,
not oozing — not burning — with lust,
wander alone
like a rhinoceros.
Sutta Nipāta 1.3 - Khaggavisana Sutta
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See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.
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Pretty accurate to me.
Thunder bolts = Vajirahattha
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