August 14, 2024 at 8:50 am
#51386
Keymaster
Paccupaṭṭhita sati is where a mind starts upon receiving a sensory input (arammana) anywhere in this world (kama, rupa, or arupa loka.)
- It comes with the “distorted sanna.”
- The mind of an Arahant stops there automatically since the mind has eliminated all ten samyojana.
- For all others, the mind may reach the ajjhatta (defiled) state, and its strength depends on how many samyojanas are left.
“Q. I’m curious about why there’s an arrow drawn from bahidda vinnana to arahant phala citta in the chart ‘Purana and Nava Kamma -4’.”
- That is the basis of Satipatthana.
- For a human, the goal is to go from the right to the left (in the “kama loka” portion of the chart) and reach the bahidda vinnana or the paccupaṭṭhita sati. That is where the mind is free of most defilements. One needs to contemplate the anicca, dukkha, anatta nature to reach that point, and one would automatically released from the kama loka, i.e., one will become an Anagami.
- Some (like Bahiya or Santati) can quickly go through all the stages of Nibbana and even attain the Arahant stage.
- It is when transitioning from the ajjhatta stage to the bahidda stage that one clearly “sees and comprehends” (janato passato) how our suffering originates when we attach to the “distorted sanna.” This is the real meaning of “sandiṭṭhiko.” In the “Upavāṇasandiṭṭhika Sutta (SN 35.70)” Venerable Upavāna asks the Buddha, “What is the meaning of sandiṭṭhiko dhammo or why Buddha Dhamma is called “sandiṭṭhiko“? He is referring to the verse, “svākkhāto bhagavatā dhammo sandiṭṭhiko akāliko ehipassiko opaneyyiko paccattaṁ veditabbo viññūhī”ti.”
- The Buddha explains @ marker 2.1: “Idha pana, upavāṇa, bhikkhu cakkhunā rūpaṁ disvā rūpappaṭisaṁvedī ca hoti rūparāgappaṭisaṁvedī ca.” Here, rūpappaṭisaṁvedī happens at the bahiddha stage and rūparāgappaṭisaṁvedī happens (and the mind gets attached) only if gets to the ajjhatta stage.
- If someone can understand that, he/she would have “seen the origin of ‘san‘ (defilements)” and become sandiṭṭhiko, i.e., at least a Sotapanna. In other words, one can also see that attachment to mind-made “distorted sanna” is the root cause of all suffering! See “Mūlapariyāya Sutta – The Root of All Things” and “Fooled by Distorted Saññā (Sañjānāti) – Origin of Attachment (Taṇhā).”