Reply To: Post on “Citta, Manō, Viññāna – Nine Stages of a Thought”

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Lal
Keymaster

We need to learn to think on our own rationally and also not to wander off to irrelevant subjects.

  • Per the description in that post, citta, mano, and mānasan stages do not have any defilements. Arahant‘s mind would go through those stages per the reasons I gave, for example, to identify people. 
  • I also stated that there is no description in the Tipitaka about how the mind of an Arahant gets to the viññā­ṇak­khan­dha stage. There is no need for that either.
  • Of course, the viññā­ṇak­khan­dha stage of an Arahant is not the same as that of a puthujjana. In particular, it would not have any defilements. But it should encompass past, future, and paccuppanna states of the mind (because an Arahant also can recall the past and may have some expectations for the future, like taking a bath later in the day.)