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…
Search Results for: samphassa vedana
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…
Reply To: Lokuttara kusala citta done with avijja?
…able to interpret the meanings of certain Pali words depending on the context. For example, in many cases, phassa, vedana, sankhara, cetana refer to samphassa, “samphassa-ja-vedana”, abhisankhara, sancetana. 2. The…
Reply To: Lokuttara kusala citta done with avijja?
…sankhara, cetana refer to samphassa, “samphassa-ja-vedana”, abhisankhara, sancetana.” That is explained a bit more in the rewritten post I just posted: “Kamma are Done with Abhisaṅkhāra – Types of Abhisaṅkhāra“…
Reply To: Tilakhanna III
Can heat in the mind, tapa, be a kamma vipaka or is it Always a samphassa ja vedana, a domanassa vedana? For me, it feels more like it can be…