In the above, I wrote “Nature operates on Paṭicca Samuppāda and is inherently incapable of generating/leading to anything of a ‘permanent nature.’”
- ‘Rūpa Samudaya’ can be thought of in two ways: (i) Generation of ‘colorful rūpa‘ in the mind based on ‘colorless external rūpa‘ and (ii) Arising of ‘colorless rūpa‘ in the external world and the arising of the physical and mental bodies to generate ‘kāma saññā‘ that makes those ‘colorless rūpa‘ appear as ‘colorful.’
- Both of those occur via Paṭicca Samuppāda.
- I discussed the key ideas in “Paṭicca Samuppāda Creates the External World, Too!“
- Also see “Rūpa Samudaya – A ‘Colorful World’ Is Created by the Mind.”
- Buddha Dhamma is not a religion. It is the ultimate science that describes the true nature of the world. Modern science is only beginning to confirm that regarding the concepts of ‘kāma saññā.‘ See “The Illusion of Perception (Saññā) – It Is Scientific Consensus.”