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Question on salayatana
From Ñanavira's Notes on Dhamma:
His note on Mano:
Note that just as the eye, as cakkhāyatana or cakkhudhātu, is that yena lokasmim lokasaññī hoti lokamānī ('[that] by which, in the world, one is a ...
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Question on Phassa
In Ñanavira's book Notes on Dhamma:
Phassa is included in nāma since nāma, in specifying saññā, necessarily specifies the pair of āyatanāni ('bases') and kind of viññāna involved (e.g. perception of ...
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Does the aggregate of consciousness depend on the aggregates of sensation, perception and mental formations?
I'm reading the book What the Buddha Taught. In the section The Five Aggregates of Chapter II: The Four Noble Truths, when discussing the relationship between the aggregate of consciousness and other ...
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Why five aggregates instead of just three?
If feeling, perception and consciousness are conjoined or mixed, and it is not possible to separate them or delineate them or disjoin them, then why do we have five different aggregates instead of ...
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What are the five kinds of seeds?
In the Seeds Sutta (SN 22.54), we find there are five kinds of seeds, which can grow, when they are fertile, undamaged and securely planted on the ground with water to nourish them.
Water is delight ...
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If consciousness arises from mental formations is it correct to say that consciousness has a specific tone or opinions with it?
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I see something moving, there's contact.
Then there's an unpleasant feeling and perception recognize it as a spider.
Mental formations on how to deal with the "threat" of a spider arises.
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Why is there no self in the container of the 5 aggregates?
I can see that there is no self to find in the 5 aggregates. But what about their container ?
I have a recurrent thought which troubles me : I imagine the 5 aggregates happening within a frame, ...
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Five aggregates vs dependent origination
What is the relation between the five aggregates and the dependent origination?
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Perception (saṃjñā) and discrimination
How do perception and discrimination relate?
I remember thinking (when reading) that they were near synonyms
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