retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
dhamma follower wrote:Don't you think it is arbitrary and unfair to assume THE right understanding of the sutta is not found in the Abhidhamma?
In that case you should have no problem translating your Abhidhamma-speak back into sutta concepts in order to make them relevant and on-topic.
Enough.
Metta,
Retro.
Dear Retro,
The main ideas of my posts use suttas concepts. Sati, panna, the five khandas, sanna all are suttas concepts, right? The term processes might not appear as such in the suttas, but i don't think anyone here has problems with seeing that the working of the five khandas are processes and reading several suttas that way.
Now can I put the question again: do concepts (such as schools, person, women, men...) belong to the five khandas? Or they are just the mirages created by different processes as the five khandas are working?
Hardly Abhidhammic, isn't it?
As for your question to Mike about the practical implication of such distinction, I have actually mentioned it earlier but will say it again here:
Because the panna that arises and understands tilakkhana must have the five khandas as objects, it is through seeing anicca, dukkha, anatta of the five khandas that one gains liberation. Do I have to quote the numerous suttas in which the Buddha asked the disciples about the five khandas or the six ayatanas etc...upon which the disciples were freed from the taints?
Please show otherwise !
Regards,