Friday, September 10, 2021

Guild Unification #1: Different ways by which one can forfeit bodily viewpoint (sakkaya-ditthi)

One way is to arrive at the following viewpoints:

  1. Materiality is not self
  2. Feeling is not self
  3. Perception is not self
  4. Constitution is not self
  5. Consciousness is not self

Similarly, a second way is:
  1. The self is not materiality
  2. The self is not feeling
  3. The self is not perception
  4. The self is not constitution
  5. The self is not consciousness

A third way is:

  1. There is no self in materiality
  2. There is no self in feeling
  3. There is no self in perception
  4. There is no self in constitution
  5. There is no self in consciousness

And a fourth way is:

  1. There is no materiality in self
  2. There is no feeling in self
  3. There is no perception in self
  4. There is no constitution in self
  5. There is no consciousness in self


pariyuṭṭhati: Partial

The worldling is partial to: I'm materiality, materiality  is mine I'm feeling, feeling is mine I'm perception, perception is mi...