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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:26 pm
The sphere of absence of forms (immaterial sphere), arupyadhatu, in which elements of the material world are absent.
Vertically, six worlds (sometimes five worlds) are also distinguished. The higher spheres of forms and absence of forms correspond to the higher realms of the world of gods, the remaining worlds, including a large number of heavens of the world of gods, belong to the sphere of the sensual.
Each level or realm of existence corresponds to a particular state of consciousness. One’s place of residence depends on previous actions (karma) and on the current state of consciousness of the being. Worlds exist as long as there are beings to inhabit them. Worlds disappear if there is no one left who belongs to that world. And they reappear if even a single being arises with the consciousness of that world. At the same time, beings can physically occupy the same space but belong to different worlds (for example, humans and animals).” This is just wow — if you read this again and decipher it, it’s truly wow how much it confirms everything. The first thing I would add as my own commentary to the article I’m reading now is that I’ve noticed something: there are people with whom, if I talk, or if that person reads my book, or if I’m having a conversation with them, they don’t understand anything. They simply cannot, either through conversation or through a period of reflection — whether they keep a journal or just sit at home trying to figure out cause and effect, why something bad happened, how to avoid it in the future, or why, for example, they were punished or lost something — they can’t identify any lesson just in theory, sitting at home. That is, such a person seems only able to develop and perceive reality, to experience growth and learn lessons, physically and materially, only when they are in the external social-material world. There are just such people. Figuratively speaking, it’s as if this person will never understand that you shouldn’t stick your fingers in an outlet until they actually do it — there is a whole group of people like this, a separate world. And it is not a sensitive world but precisely a material one. These people can only learn physically and understand, for example, that if you walk inattentively, you might trip, scrape your knees, see blood, feel pain, and only then realize that when you’re walking down the street, you shouldn’t be on your phone at the same time. And then there are people to whom you can simply say something, and they immediately understand it — they don’t need to experience it physically in order to grasp it.
Vertically, six worlds (sometimes five worlds) are also distinguished. The higher spheres of forms and absence of forms correspond to the higher realms of the world of gods, the remaining worlds, including a large number of heavens of the world of gods, belong to the sphere of the sensual.
Each level or realm of existence corresponds to a particular state of consciousness. One’s place of residence depends on previous actions (karma) and on the current state of consciousness of the being. Worlds exist as long as there are beings to inhabit them. Worlds disappear if there is no one left who belongs to that world. And they reappear if even a single being arises with the consciousness of that world. At the same time, beings can physically occupy the same space but belong to different worlds (for example, humans and animals).” This is just wow — if you read this again and decipher it, it’s truly wow how much it confirms everything. The first thing I would add as my own commentary to the article I’m reading now is that I’ve noticed something: there are people with whom, if I talk, or if that person reads my book, or if I’m having a conversation with them, they don’t understand anything. They simply cannot, either through conversation or through a period of reflection — whether they keep a journal or just sit at home trying to figure out cause and effect, why something bad happened, how to avoid it in the future, or why, for example, they were punished or lost something — they can’t identify any lesson just in theory, sitting at home. That is, such a person seems only able to develop and perceive reality, to experience growth and learn lessons, physically and materially, only when they are in the external social-material world. There are just such people. Figuratively speaking, it’s as if this person will never understand that you shouldn’t stick your fingers in an outlet until they actually do it — there is a whole group of people like this, a separate world. And it is not a sensitive world but precisely a material one. These people can only learn physically and understand, for example, that if you walk inattentively, you might trip, scrape your knees, see blood, feel pain, and only then realize that when you’re walking down the street, you shouldn’t be on your phone at the same time. And then there are people to whom you can simply say something, and they immediately understand it — they don’t need to experience it physically in order to grasp it.