Let’s take an example of a any object like a mobile phone.
Take your phone and touch it .
If you touch the screen ,then it’s not the “phone” ,it’s the screen.
If you touch the back, you didn’t touch the “phone”.
Same with a Car. You can touch it’s individual parts but can never touch a “car”.
Now two questions arise
Is there a car? (As we can’t touch the “car”)
Is there no car? ( A car is there , we can see that!)
So what’s exactly the reality?
Both these questions are wrong, and the right question is to ask , Why do we feel that there is a car.
All the individual parts came together, and we create a perception of what a car looks like, and if both these match, we feel that the object is a car.
If it is cut in half, we feel that the car is cut in half, but in reality only the arrangement has been changed
This was the question asked to the Buddha (I don’t know the sutta).
Both these sayings that “Is there a self?” Or “Is there no self” or “IS there neither self nor no self?” Or “Is there either self or no self?” Are wrong questions.
The correct question should be,why do we feel that there is a Self?
Thats the Perception part. As I mentioned earlier,the mind arises only when the conditions are met.
For example, clap your hands ,that sound is not in the clapping but is generated in the mind. What that clapping generated was just vibrations of certain frequency.
The longer you clap ,the longer you hear that sound, that is sound consciousness arises, which means a citta arises to experience that only if the conditions are met.
Since the mind is also based on Causality, this is why we can attain Nibbana! We can remove all the causes that give rise to a future mind.
That is the Vinnana , we need to tackle the Kamma Vinnana. If the mind doesn’t generate Kamma Vinnana, it won’t fabricate a future mind, as the cause is no longer present.
