Revised May 17, 2018; revised December 18, 2018; February 16, 2020; July 19, 2021; September 21, 2022; rewritten February 5, 2023; revised February 2, 2024 Sửa ngày 17/05/2018; sửa ngày 18/12/2018; ngày 16/02/2020; ngày 19/07/2021; ngày 21/09/2022; viết lại ngày 05/02/2023; sửa ngày 02/02/2024 [This article is not found in the Pure Dhamma post. It […]

Revised January 2, 2019; revised November 8, 2019; February 23, 2021; August 11, 2022; March 22, 2023 Sửa ngày 02/01/2019; 08/11/2019; 23/02/2021; 11/08/2022; 22/03/2023 Lobha, Dosa, and Moha Lobha, Dosa và Moha Lobha is extreme greed; see, “Lobha, Rāga, and Kāmacchanda, Kāmarāga.” One is willing to do any immoral act to get what one wants. […]

May 13, 2019; revised May 14, 2019; August 27, 2022; rewritten December 6, 2024; revised April 19, 2025 Ngày 13/05/2019; sửa ngày 14/05/2019; 27/08/2022; viết lại ngày 06/12/2024; sửa ngày 19/04/2025 August 27, 2022: This replaces an old post in this section entitled, “Saṅkhāra and Kammā, Viññāṇa and Kamma Bīja.” I have re-written it with […]

Revised November 26, 2017 Sửa ngày 26/11/2017 In the previous introductory post, “What is “Saŋ”? Meaning os sansāra (or saṁsāra),” we introduced the term “saṅkhāra”, and in the next post saṅkhāra was discussed in somewhat technical terms. Since it is such an important term, in this post I will discuss it in a bit more […]

Revised May 12, 2016; February 23, 2019; May 27, 2022; August 27, 2022; March 16, 2023; May 23, 2023 (#3) Sửa ngày 12/05/2016; 23/02/2019; 27/05/2022; 27/08/2022; 16/03/2023; 23/05/2023 (#3) There is much confusion about these words. These are key Dhamma concepts, and one needs to sort them out to understand other key concepts like rebirth […]