How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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Dhammavamsa wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm
Aloka wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:30 am
How do you imagine beings of other realms?
I don't imagine beings of other realms. I regard them as mental states.
The rich iconography of the Wheel of Life can be interpreted on several levels. The six major sections represent the Six Realms. These realms can be understood as forms of existence, or states of mind, into which beings are born according to their karma. The realms also can be viewed as situations in life or even personality types—hungry ghosts are addicts; devas are privileged; hell beings have anger issues.

https://www.learnreligions.com/the-whee ... fe-4123213
Wow, so all these years Buddha's talks on heaven, hell, this world, another world, Asuras wars with Devas, Peta, how Devas visited Him for teachings, Mara army, Nagas and Supannas, Supernormal powers through Jhanic powers, all non-existent?
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𝓑𝓾𝓭𝓭𝓱𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓭 𝓤𝓷𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓿𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽
  • Iᴅᴇᴀ ᴏꜰ Sᴏᴜʟ ɪs Oᴜᴛᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴀɴ Uᴛᴛᴇʀʟʏ Fᴏᴏʟɪsʜ Vɪᴇᴡ
    V. Nanananda

𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓽ā 𝓜𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓘𝓼
  • Nᴏ sᴜᴄʜ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀs ᴀ Sᴇʟғ, Sᴏᴜʟ, Eɢᴏ, Sᴘɪʀɪᴛ, ᴏʀ Āᴛᴍᴀɴ
    V. Buddhādasa
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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DooDoot wrote: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:11 pm The Pali "paraloka" means "other world" rather than "next world". For example, due to kamma, such as addiction to drugs, one can proceed to a hell world of pain, trauma & degeneration.

The Pali word for "nihilism" means "not believe in goodness & its benefits". "Nihilism" does not mean believing there is no life after death.

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Take other synonym then. Skepticism, atheism, cynicism. All these present the idea of non-belief in the supernatural and afterlife, what you are accused of.
Sense pleasures are what over time becoming suffering. What is visible 'here and now' is the cessation, absence. Visibility doesn't deny afterlife or giving a notion of afterlife being mundane understanding. Your rhetoric is nihilist, you are not believing in a being and not know what are pointing out instructions. The being is spoken of when there is strong attachment, that doesn't mean there isn't supramundane atta, which is visible here and now.
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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comment on sn 35.135
with mn 100,
https://suttacentral.net/mn100/en/sujato wrote:“In the same way, there are ascetics and brahmins who live withdrawn in body and mind from sensual pleasures. And they have internally given up and stilled desire, affection, infatuation, thirst, and passion for sensual pleasures. Regardless of whether or not they suffer painful, sharp, severe, acute feelings due to overexertion, they are capable of knowledge and vision, of supreme awakening.
It is possible to have vision of supreme awakening, allegedly in bad sixsensebase contact(hell). And it(vision of supreme awakening) is necessary for living holy life, which is training for attaining jhana.
The term hell in sn35.135 is a forewarning(for those not yet gained holy life) and a truth for someone who lives holy life(who has vision of supreme awakening).
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Re: How do you imagine beings of other realms?

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