Dear Piya,
I am glad you bring this up.
Moha is different from wrong view, di.t.thi.
As you say, the root moha is present with every akusala citta. It is
the same as avijjaa. It is the opposite of vijjaa, understanding.
Moha conceals the danger of akusala. It is darkness, concealing what
is akusala and what is kusala.
Lobha, dosa and moha are the three unwholesome roots for the
different types of akusala cittas.

Wrong view, di.t.thi is a wrong interpretation of realities. It takes
them for permanent and self. Di.t.thi is different from moha and it
is not a root, muula. Moha conditions wrong view and accompanies it,
but moha and di.t.thi are different realities. Moha is ignorant of
the true nature of realities but it has no view about them, whereas
di.t.thi has wrong view about them, it is a twisted view. Di.t.thi
arises only with lobha-muulacitta, with four types of the eight
types. There is also clinging when there is wrong view.
Conceit, maana, is clinging to the importance of 'oneself'. This may
arise when one compares oneself with others, but also when there is
no comparing.
There is moha, ignorance, with maana, but there is no di.t.thi at the
same time. Maana, when it arises, does so with the types of lobha-
muulacittas that are without wrong view.

When the word 'self' is used in self-advertisement this is expressed
in common language (vohaara). That is why it was said: <saa pana
cittassa na attano>.This was added so that people would not be misled
by the word self. Conceit pertains to the citta, one clings to the
importance of 'one's' citta. There is no wrong view of self. The
Sotaapanna has eradicated wrong view, but he still has conceit. Only
the arahat has eradicated conceit.
Thanks for asking about the summer here: rainy, but behind the clouds
is always the sun.
Nina.
Op 1-jul-2007, om 11:45 heeft Piya Tan het volgende geschreven:

> Or, is moha only an aspect of avijjaa, then? I don't think the Suttas
> distinguish them.
>
> SECONDLY, concerning "Wrong vew and conceit have different objects,
> they
> never go toigether."
>
> Please give a few examples. Isn't conceit rooted in wrong view, one
> of the
> three
> primary unwholesome roots.
>
> Thanks again for your time. I hope you are having a good summer in the
> Nederland.

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