except for Bodhisattva Maitreya inner court of contentment heaven and pure
abodes of the non-returners are good, in the sense they do walk the
dharma path.
The Thirty-one Planes of
Existence
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
Peerless devas (akanittha
deva)
Clear-sighted devas (sudassi
deva)
Beautiful devas (sudassa
deva)
Untroubled devas (atappa
deva)
Devas
not Falling Away (aviha deva)
These
are the five Pure Abodes(suddhavasa), which are
accessible
onlyto non-returners(anagami)
and arahants. Beings who become non-returners in other planes
are reborn here, where they attain arahantship.
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below is from Pali
canon:-
http://www.palikanon.com/english/pali_names/s/suddhaavaasaa.htm
Suddhāvāsā
The "Pure Abodes"; a name given to a group of
Brahma-worlds - the five highest Rūpa worlds - consisting
of
Avihā,
Atappā,
Sudassā,
Sudassī and
Akanitthā (E.g., D.iii.237).
There anāgāmī are born, and there
they attain arahantship; such anāgāmī are divided
into twenty four classes (See, e.g., KhA.182f.; of. PSA. 319;
Vsm.710).
Bodhisattas are never born there (SNA.i.50;
BuA.224).
The Suddhāvāsā are described as buddhānam
khandhāvāratthānasadisā. Sometimes, for asankheyyas of kappas, when
no Buddhas are born, these worlds remain empty (AA.ii.808; cf.
MA.i.30).
The Buddha is mentioned as having visited the
Suddhāvāsā (E.g., D.ii.50). When a Buddha is about to be born, the
inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā insert a knowledge of the signs of a
Great Being in the Vedas and teach this among men in the guise of
brahmins, calling such knowledge buddhamanta. Men learn it and are
thus able to recognize a Great Being (MA.ii.761; SNA.ii.448). The
inhabitants of the Suddhāvāsā know how many Buddhas will be born in
any particular kappa by observing the number of lotuses which
spring up on the site of the Bodhi-pallanka when the earth
gradually emerges after the destruction of the world (DA.ii.411).
It is the Suddhāvāsā Brahmās who provide the four omens which lead
to a Bodhisatta's renunciation in his last lay life. See, e.g.,
DA.ii.455f.
i ever heard at
the Thirty-three Gods (tavatimsa) heavens
also have a special place where dharma are taught by bodhisattvas
to those with affinity.
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