Dhamma on Air #11: The 5 Destinations
Channel: Bhikkhu Samahita
Date: 15/02/2016

Questions answered:

Q1: How to come to understand suffering?

Q2: Adultery induces rebirth as homosexual. Source text? Other causal karmic relations? 

Q3: When we are reborn as humans, are one into the future, or can we be reborn into the past? 

Q4: Isn't attachment to a jhana meditation absorption also a form of clinging? 

Q5: How can lay people gain deeper peace, when still craving for primitive things like sex?

Q6: Did Buddha said anything about euthanasia of humans and animals?

Q7: Should one participate in politics if there are political wrong doings that makes people suffer.

Q8: To quit alcohol and tobacco is there any Dhamma-medicine or meditation-method?

Q8: If Mara is performing evil actions, shouldn't he had destroyed himself karmically by now? 

Q9: What makes the effect of kamma manifest as good or bad future? 

The 5 Destinations:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm

The Manual on the 5 Destinations (Pañcagatidipani):
https://store.pariyatti.org/Journal-Pali-Text-Society-Vol-11_p_2026.html

The realm of the Hungry Ghosts (Petavatthu) and
The seats of the Divine Devas (Vimannavatthu):
https://store.pariyatti.org/Minor-Anthologies-Vol-4-Stories-of-the-Mansions-Stories-of-the-Departed_p_2090.html

Audio Dhamma Talks on Kamma:
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-i
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-ii
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/qarma-mechanics-iii

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