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**EnubreBense** · 06-10-2012, 09:31 AM

Do they typically translate 'further becoming' with rebirth? Like, life to life, body to body?

yes, typically

bhava (becoming) is a mental state or mental phenomena. it is an asava (effluent). it is not related to the physical body

He discerns that 'Whatever disturbances that would exist based on the effluent of sensuality... the effluent of becoming... the effluent of ignorance, are not present. And there is only this modicum of disturbance: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' He discerns that 'This mode of perception is empty of the effluent of sensuality... becoming... ignorance. And there is just this non-emptiness: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' Thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there. Whatever remains, he discerns as present: 'There is this.' And so this, his entry into emptiness, accords with actuality, is undistorted in meaning, pure — superior & unsurpassed.

MN 121

06-10-2012, 09:31 AM	#18
EnubreBense Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 552 Senior Member	Do they typically translate 'further becoming' with rebirth? Like, life to life, body to body? yes, typically bhava (becoming) is a mental state or mental phenomena. it is an asava (effluent). it is not related to the physical body He discerns that 'Whatever disturbances that would exist based on the effluent of sensuality... the effluent of becoming... the effluent of ignorance, are not present. And there is only this modicum of disturbance: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' He discerns that 'This mode of perception is empty of the effluent of sensuality... becoming... ignorance. And there is just this non-emptiness: that connected with the six sensory spheres, dependent on this very body with life as its condition.' Thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there. Whatever remains, he discerns as present: 'There is this.' And so this, his entry into emptiness, accords with actuality, is undistorted in meaning, pure — superior & unsurpassed. MN 121
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