Re: corrections AN I.51-52

From: Ong Teng Kee
Message: 227
Date: 2001-07-14

Dear Jim,
It seems to me bhavanga is passive .Feeling are in
javana but not bhavangacitta. I read this in
Visuddhimagga.How can bhavanga experience something?
The feeling accompany in bhavanga will be the same in
8 kusala javana,9 rupa arupa and the other two but it
is passive as mentioned in VM.




   --- "m. nease" <mlnease@...> wrote:
> Dear Jim and Nina,
>
> This question highlights a question I've had since
> beginning to read Nina's work--what is it that makes
> 'an unpleasant object' unpleasant?  By that I don't
> mean 'vipaka'--I mean intrinsically in the object.
> Probably this is a semantic misunderstanding on myof
all kinds are in javana
> part.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> mike
>
> --- Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that bhavangacitta would not be able
> to
> experience an
> unpleasant object because that would entail an
> accompanying unpleasant
> feeling.  From my understanding, only somanassa or
> upekkha feelings can
> accompany a bhavangacitta. Is this right or wrong?
>
>
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