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**etdgxcnc** · 06-15-2012, 10:21 PM

Good point. I may be overthinking it but I am trying to uderstand the intent of the Sutta as it applies to my practice.

Hello
You might find the note in Pabhassara Sutta: Luminous, interesting in respect to your questioning:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....049.than.html

My personal understanding is as follows:
There is no mind, there is consciousness, however consciousness is subject to impermanence and changes. That which modern psychology calls mind may be thoughts or personality. The difficulty for me has been to move from the idea that there is a thing called mind in the body which has its own existence. Rather, from reading the sutta, commentaries and Abhidamma it seems that there is no single mind, but rather a concomitant of observable phenomenon e.g. consciousness, formations and 6 sense-bases etc. This (I feel) is helpful as it implies anatta (no consistent self).

Hope it helps.

06-15-2012, 10:21 PM	#6
etdgxcnc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Good point. I may be overthinking it but I am trying to uderstand the intent of the Sutta as it applies to my practice. Hello You might find the note in Pabhassara Sutta: Luminous, interesting in respect to your questioning: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....049.than.html My personal understanding is as follows: There is no mind, there is consciousness, however consciousness is subject to impermanence and changes. That which modern psychology calls mind may be thoughts or personality. The difficulty for me has been to move from the idea that there is a thing called mind in the body which has its own existence. Rather, from reading the sutta, commentaries and Abhidamma it seems that there is no single mind, but rather a concomitant of observable phenomenon e.g. consciousness, formations and 6 sense-bases etc. This (I feel) is helpful as it implies anatta (no consistent self). Hope it helps.
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