Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Cittas and their contents

The problem with observing the changing cittas (not individual ones, of course) is that there is no proof that the "contents", which includes everything in life, can be said to truly exist. What can be experienced that also arise and fall are cittas that belong to samsara. The Buddha also taught that lokutara cittas can arise and fall. The impact of lokutara cittas on the stream of mundane cittas are of course, immense.

But can we prove that there is more to this? Do we have to believe in conventional teachings that involved "contents" of citta on faith?

(a post on e-Sangha, which hopefully won't be deleted).

No comments: