Here is another video that explains ‘colors do not exist in the world.’
- At 13 minutes: “No colors in the world, it is a shared illusion.”
- Then he says, “Colors are made up in the neurons in the brain.” That part is wrong according to the Buddha’s teachings. Colors are generated in the mind based on the information received from the brain. That is how the Paticca Samuppada process generates a “pleasurable world.”
- That initial ‘pleasure sensation’ (in the first step of the ‘purana kamma‘ stage) is only a saññā and is not there in the world. That initial ‘pleasure sensation’ is real (built into a human body) and is experienced even by an Arahant.
- However, the ‘samphassa-jā-vedanā’ that arises in the second step of the ‘purana kamma‘ stage is not generated in an Arahant. That can be stopped from arising with the elimination of samyojana.
P.S. I have revised the new post (“Taṇhā – Saññā Leading to Mind-Made Vedanā“) to emphasize that point.