Tobias wrote: “The Arahant does not operate on PS anymore. Thus, color perception can not be generated by PS.”
- The generation of ‘color perception’ for an Arahant happens because the Arahant was born with a mental and physical body generated via PS.
- Anyone born a human is born with the ‘kāma saññā‘ built into them.
- The stopping of ‘attachment to color perception’ for an Arahant happens because PS no longer operates for the Arahant.
- I have bolded the incorrect part of your comment. Think about that critical point.
P.S. Paṭicca Samuppāda (PS) process works in two ways: (i) It explains how we generate kamma (kammic energy). (ii) It also explains how future existences arise based on kammic energies we have accumulated; “paṭi+ichcha” leads to “sama+uppāda,” i.e., “willingly attaching to the root causes” leads to “corresponding (re)births.”
- Because we have craved ‘sensual pleasures’ (‘kāma assāda’) and generated kammic energy to sustain such an existence, we are born with mental and physical bodies to generate the ‘kāma saññā.‘ That is how the Arahant was born with the built-in ‘kāma saññā.‘ That ‘kāma saññā‘ will be there as long as the Arahant lives in this world, i.e., until their death.
