Suan

> Please also note how the Buddha repeated the verb 'hoti' for each
> menal associate.
>

How do you know that the Pali verb was actually spoken by the Buddha?

Thomas Law

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "abhidhammika" <suanluzaw@...> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Dimitry, Nina, Jim and all
>
> Dimitry wrote:
>
> "Though all models are a matter of conventionality, I find the
> ramified model more exact. It also better agrees with the findings
> of modern neurophysiology that the input signals are simultaneously
> processed by several subsystems of neural systems. Thus the
> processing of the signals by vedanaa and sa~n~naa is better
> described as not sequential but parallel, though these processes
are
> of course interrelated."
>
> Please read the following from
>
> Dhammasanganii, Abhidhaamma
> Pi.taka.
>
> 1. Cittuppaadaka.n.dam
>
> Kaamaavacarakusalam
>
> Padabhaajanii
>
> 1. Katame dhammaa kusalaa? Yasmim samaye kaamaavacaram
> kusalam cittam uppannam hoti somanassasahagatam ñaa.nasampayuttam
> ruupaaramma.nam vaa saddaaramma.nam vaa gandhaaramma.nam vaa
> rasaaramma.nam vaa pho.t.thabbaaramma.nam vaa dhammaaramma.nam
vaa
> yam yam vaa panaarabbha, tasmim samaye phasso hoti, vedanaa
> hoti, saññaa hoti, cetanaa hoti, cittam hoti, vitakko hoti, …"
>
> The above passage shows that when a mental event happens by taking
> one or another of the six stimuli, namely, the five sense objects
> and one mental object, relevant mental associates such as contact,
> feeling, memory, activation, thinking and the like also arise
> simultaneously.
>
> Please note the clause "cittam hoti" which the Buddha intentionally
> included to indicate the mind and its mental associates (cetasikas)
> arise simultaneously.
>
> Please also note how the Buddha repeated the verb 'hoti' for each
> menal associate.
>
> With regards,
>
> Suan
>
> http://www.bodhiology.org
>