Post on “Icchā (Cravings) Lead to Upādāna and to Eventual Suffering”
…about that, I realized that the “upadana” step could be clarified better in the figure AND the initiation of the PS process starting at the “phassa paccaya vedana” (or “samphassa…
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Reply To: Post On Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Tanhā)
…vaci sankhara, while kāmaguna is like mano sankhara. Kāma is like upadana, while kāmaguna is like tanha. Kāmaguna is samphassa ja vedana and kāma is what perpetuates samphassa ja vedana….
Sensory Experience – Basis of Buddhā’s Worldview
…– Introduction Contact Between Āyatana Leads to Vipāka Viññāna How Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana? Indriya Make Phassa and Ayatana Make Samphassa Citta – Basis of Our Experience and…
An analogy of the palm tree
…around it. That is why Rupa is at the beginning of the five aggregates… Rupa, Vedana, saññā, Sankhara, viññāna. Because the mind depends on structures namely, on the formed thought…
Reply To: Post on “Saññā Gives Rise to Most of the Vedanā We Experience”
Lang asked: “So, we don’t attach to “distorted sanna“, but to samphassa-ja-vedana right?” Yes. I had not expressed this correctly in my initial response. I just revised it to make…
Reply To: About Jati and Ayatana
…sensory input (arammana) coming to the mind and the mind getting attached to it, for example, “cakkhunca paticca rupeca uppjjati cakkhu vinnanam.” The attachment starts with the mind generating “samphassa-ja-vedana”…
Reply To: About Jati and Ayatana
…to it, for example, “cakkhunca paticca rupeca uppjjati cakkhu vinnanam.” The attachment starts with the mind generating “samphassa-ja-vedana” via “distorted sanna.” That always happens within a lifetime via Idappaccayata PS….
Reply To: Post on “Phassa (Contact) – Contact With Pasāda Rupa”
…in the “uddesa version,” and the “niddesa versions” must be used to get the correct interpretation. Specifically, saṅkhāra (abhisaṅkhāra), viññāna (kamma viññāna), phassa (samphassa), vedanā (samphassa-jā-vedanā). See “Sutta Interpretation –…
Reply To: ChatGPT seems to know more than western scholars – Paṭicca Samuppāda
It seems that in the days of the Buddha, everyone knew that words like phassa, sankhara, cetana, vedana, and sanna meant samphassa, abhisankhara, sancetana, samphassa-ja-vedana, and “distorted sanna” in most…
Reply To: Perceiving the sensual world
“Can I clarify that the Arahant will not taste it to be pleasant but netural, because Samphassa-jā-Vedanā do not arise in an Arahant..?” The sweet taste of ice cream comes…