So unless there's some further questions on chapter 2, we're ready to go to chapter 3. The author has just explained the various sorts of thoughts, various kinds of consciousness which appear in the kamadhatu, the rupadhatu, spelled wrong, and the arupadhatu, the spheres of concupiscence,

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of fine material form, or fine material matter, and of non-matter. And actually, what the author just explained was the sequences of these various kinds of thoughts. What can follow what? And what can be followed by what? Yes? It means sex. But it means sex, you know, in the sense of the human body, arms and legs and ordinary genitals and skin and hair, that kind of sex. There can be sex in the rupadatu, but it's not... It's not sex in the sense of gross bodies, but sex more in a level of sweet, smooth, loud, blue.

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That kind of sex... So what are these three spheres? What are these three spheres? Pratas, animals, I made it better to say actually, hell, hungry ghosts, animals, men, and women, and gods. Six gods. These, this is the kama doctor. This is the realm of concupiscence. The Kamadatu is four fates and part of the fifth, part of the divine destiny.

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That is, six groups of gods Six out of... 24. Or is it 27? 17... 27. Six out of 27... of the realms of gods are in the Kamadatu. These six are... Maharajikas which means four great kings the Traya Srimsas Traya Srimsas which is gods of the 33 they're sometimes called in the in the

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Kajit Pramiris, which is talking about the gods of the 33. That's them. The Yamas. The Tushitas. Tushitas, you know, is where bodhisattvas hang out. And that's the sort of, what do you call it, the cue for being Buddha. in the Saha world. This is the Saha world, which is basically, you might say, our solar system. So in this particular world system, Bodhisattvas wade into a sheet of heaven and they come down from there to be the Buddha.

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And the nirmanarathis, nirmanarathis being basically magical, magically created, and the paranimanarathis avasaravartins, which is even beyond that. one magically created heaven, plus the receptacle world, the famous pajama loka, which contains these beings. This is the kamadhatu. So the kamadhatu is five destinies, and as you may know, it's also called in Mahayana Buddhism, it's six destinies are more common.

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They don't have the six destinies at all, or is it just not? The six destinies here, but they don't choose to call it a separate destiny. But in the Lotus Sutra, for example, and a number of other Mahayana Sutras, they favor the sixth destiny system, which adds in what are called the fighting demons or the fighting gods, the Asuras. So, hell is Naraka, hungry ghost is Preta, animals is Tirika, and men are Manishaya, and God, the deva, and fighting spirits are asura. The fighting demons are kind of a borderline case.

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They're literally fighting at the borders of heaven. So it's hard to say whether they're really in heaven or not. In a way, they're better off than most humans in a worldly sense. They're quite powerful beings. They're more powerful than ordinary human beings in the worldly sense. And they're trying to use their power to get into heaven. People of immense wealth or immense political and social power could be considered to be these kinds of people. Not all of them, but those who wish to use that power in order to gain divine experience.

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Or rather, Yeah, that's just the way it works out for them. Something like that. So you can't really say whether they're human. They're not really human. They're beyond the usual range of human. But they're not quite heavenly. They're not as peaceful as the deities. They're not quite as satisfied. How many places stana in the Kamadatu? Someone would like to read the next paragraph? Twenty-four. Okay, that should be twenty. ... [...]

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Thank you. Do you say 24? Do you say 24?

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Along the perceptual world, lower part of the circle would be .

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