[mealiusarses]

Based on the six elements there is...body-and-mind. With body-and-mind as condition there are the six sense bases; with the six sense bases as condition there is contact; with contact as condition there is feeling. Now it is for one who feels that I make known: “This is suffering,” “This is the origin of suffering,” “This is the cessation of suffering,” “This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering.” for me, i have always found the beauty of this teaching, the phrase: "It is for one who feels that I make known the four noble truths".

this teachings also demonstrate the neutrality of nama-&-rupa (body-&-mind) rather than making nama-&-rupa something intrinsically unwholesome (such as by regarding nama-&-rupa as 'subject-object', dividing experience into self-other, etc)

nama-&-rupa simply points out there is a body-&-mind that both facilitates & is affected by external sense experience and internal ignorance

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