Different Types of Patisandhi-citta - Rebirth consciousness with beautiful roots III
The eight types of sahetuka patisandhi-citta which are the results of
kāmāvacara kusala kammas do not arise only in the human plane, but they
also arise in those heavenly planes of existence which are kāma-bhūmi or
'sensuous' planes of existence.
There are thirty-one classes of planes of existence in all. Eleven planes
are kāma-bhūmis (or kāma-lokas), of which one is the plane of human
beings, six are heavenly planes and four are woeful planes. Beings born in
one of the kāma-bhūmis have kāmāvacara cittas; they receive sense
impressions. There are also other heavenly planes which are not kama-
bhumi.
If one is born in one of the kāma-bhūmis and cultivates jhāna (absorption)
one can, besides kāmāvacara cittas, also have rūpa-jhānacittas and arūpa
-jhānacittas. If one cultivates the Eightfold Path one can have lokuttara
cittas (cittas which directly experience nibbāna).
- Two classes of rebirth consciousness
- Santīrana-citta as rebirth consciousness
- Rebirth consciousness produced by kamma
- Four persons found existing in the world
- Rebirth consciousness with beautiful roots I
- Rebirth consciousness with beautiful roots II
- Rebirth consciousness with beautiful roots III
- Fine-material world and immaterial world
- Nineteen types of rebirth consciousness
- Mindfulness of death