I repeat what I already said in:ancientbuddhism wrote:…were not assertions of the Tathāgata or of any credible authority on the Dhamma or Buddhism.ToVincent wrote:Having a cognition beyond the "world" - beyond the physical body - beyond contact with saḷāyatana...
http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ed#p401856
But viññāṇa anidassana per se, is outside the range of the physical body.
That is what you can't understand.
Viññāṇa anidassana (that Bodhi also call rightly "infinite consciousness" (in his translation referenced below,) because it is quite of the same nature,) is experienced out of the "all", and cannot be claimed to be with respect to the "all", says MN 49.
The MN 49 pericope is given here with three different translations:
http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ro#p401701
You know what the "all" means in Buddhism, do you?
The eye and forms, the ear and sounds, the nose and odours, the tongue and tastes, the body and tactile objects, the mind and mental phenomena. SN 35.23
So if I read well, the body is in the "all" - right?
And viññāṇa anidassana is experienced out of the "all" - Right?
In other words, viññāṇa anidassana is experienced out of the physical body.
So when I say that there is a cognition beyond the "world" (aka saḷāyatana, of which the "all" is a part,) - beyond the physical body - beyond contact with saḷāyatana...
Why do you answer:
…were not assertions of the Tathāgata or of any credible authority on the Dhamma or Buddhism?
Who speaks in MN 49 ?!?! - Me ?
This is ludicrous.
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On the other hand, you have not yet answered my question here:
http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... na#p401701
What kind of scholarly references might make you think that SN 12.11 or 12.15 for instance; or most of SN 12 for that matter, are "late Nikayas"? What kind of references might make you think that the content of these suttas were "padded out" from the Parayana or Aṭṭhaka vaggas?
In other words, what reasons do you have to occult MN 49; and wipe out paṭiccasamuppāda, out of Early Buddhism?
What are your profound scholarly reasons?
Tell me.
I think that you are making up what EBT (early Buddhist Texts) are all about; and purge the Suttas, to fit your delusional materialistic bias. Period.