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**Vemnagelignc** · 06-21-2012, 09:54 PM

Hi Deshy, The Thinker
I think the problem with my question/view is that I am taking the "world" to be a single stable phenomena (such as the earth on which we stand) and that (I have literally just read) seems to not be 100% correct. Rather the world for us changes along with our karma and our mind of course. This implies that the world might cease to be suffering for one who has ended suffering for her or his self (or her or his world):

"The "world" of which the Buddha speaks is comprised in this aggregate of body-and-mind. For it is only by the activity of our physical and mental sense faculties that a world can be experienced and known at all. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes and bodily impressions which we perceive, and our various mental functions, conscious and unconscious — this is the world in which we live. And this world of ours has its origin in that very aggregate of physical and mental processes that produces the kammic act of craving for the six physical and mental sense objects." - Nyanaponika Thera

Perhaps either of you have an opinion on this?

06-21-2012, 09:54 PM	#8
Vemnagelignc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	Hi Deshy, The Thinker I think the problem with my question/view is that I am taking the "world" to be a single stable phenomena (such as the earth on which we stand) and that (I have literally just read) seems to not be 100% correct. Rather the world for us changes along with our karma and our mind of course. This implies that the world might cease to be suffering for one who has ended suffering for her or his self (or her or his world): "The "world" of which the Buddha speaks is comprised in this aggregate of body-and-mind. For it is only by the activity of our physical and mental sense faculties that a world can be experienced and known at all. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes and bodily impressions which we perceive, and our various mental functions, conscious and unconscious — this is the world in which we live. And this world of ours has its origin in that very aggregate of physical and mental processes that produces the kammic act of craving for the six physical and mental sense objects." - Nyanaponika Thera Perhaps either of you have an opinion on this?
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