Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who obtains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who obtains.
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- noun One who
obtains .
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Examples
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Craving serves as the support for an obtainer, which is another simultaneously acting condition that needs to be present for obtaining a rebirth.
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These three, then – a distorted outlook, an extreme outlook, and holding a deluded outlook as supreme – constitute the second kind of obtainer, an obtainer deluded outlook.
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We also have an obtainer disturbing attitude: we identify with a solid "me" who cannot tolerate the situation, and this brings on a further existence impulse to continue solidly existing free of it.
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Only if we understand the system of karma and the weakness in the system – craving not to be separated from happiness and to be parted from suffering, and an obtainer disturbing attitude such as identifying with a solid "me" – can we understand the process of purification.
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Thus, we see that craving and an obtainer attitude, mainly identifying with a solid "me," play the crucial roles in activating and ripening karmic aftermath and in bringing about the arising of further karmic impulses.
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If we get rid of the craving and this obtainer, which come from the first of the twelve links – unawareness or confusion about how we exist – so that they never recur, then there is no longer any activating and ripening of karmic aftermath and no more production of any more karma.
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Based on how we regard what we are experiencing in the moment, our continuing craving and an obtainer attitude arouse a further existence impulse and that further existence impulse activates another set of karmic aftermath.
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We must rid ourselves of our identifying with a solid "me" that underlies our craving and our obtainer disturbing attitude.
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That impulse to do it, when still accompanied by this craving, obtainer, and regard, brings on our actually banging on the door.
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