Thank you so much, Lal!
I’m still reading (and rereading) the post, but it is already making more sense, or at least I hope so.
In one of my previous responses, I said I had trouble with the phrase “attaching to kāma saññā”. I had thought of “attaching” as tanha as in “… (samphassa-ja) vedana paccaya tanha.
But this “attachment” is BEFORE that, weaker and in the form of raga as in rūparāgappaṭisaṁvedī.
Is this a correct description of the flow of sequence in a seeing event:
viparita saññā
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manāpāmanāpaṁ
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rūparāgappaṭisaṁvedī
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cakkhu viññāṇa
If the experience stops here then we are still within the purāna kamma stage, where kamma is not strong enough to lead to future rebirths?