Reply To: Sabbe Sankhara

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sybe07
Spectator

I have understood, but correct me if i am wrong, that the javana citta’s of an arahant are not akusala anymore but also not kusala.

The citta’s that succeed the votthapana citta are kirya citta’s. There is no impuls or habitual force to do bad but also not to do good.
In my own words, there is not that kind of moral and immoral re-activity anymore in the mind.

I think a nice way to talk about this is that an arahant has become completely authentic. All habitual behaviour is not really authentic, but re-active. It is a kind of alienation. I can sense this. An arahant has ended this process of alienation. If, for example, somebody becomes really angry, he is in an alienated state, he is not really himself. Reactivity is a kind of alienation.

Yes, also habitually doing good is alienation. It is not really authentic or nobel. I do not say it is bad, but i can sense that doing habitually good, as a kind of re-ativity, is something completely different then doing good in a nobel sense.

That an arahant automatically does good, i belief, does not mean he/she does automatically good because of kusala citta’s or gati/habit. It is another kind of automatically doing good. It is not based on gati or habitual forces. Behaviour based on gati is Always reactivity and cannot be called nobel.

Hope, this is of use

kind regards,
Siebe