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**Fhgzmftq** · 07-02-2011, 09:10 AM

This do not mean a psychological continuity. Each happens in a single moment. Psychological continuity is just an illusion that happens because of fabrications. Psychological continuity makes us to think in DO and Khandha doctrines wrongly thinking in them as mind stream stuff. Psychological continuity is not a teaching of the historical Buddha.

In which case, why did the Buddha repeatedly tell us (in the Dvedhavitakka Sutta):

Whatever a bhikkhu frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind. If there is no psychological continuity, how can a mind be said to "incline" towards anything at all?

07-02-2011, 09:10 AM	#36
Fhgzmftq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 352 Senior Member	This do not mean a psychological continuity. Each happens in a single moment. Psychological continuity is just an illusion that happens because of fabrications. Psychological continuity makes us to think in DO and Khandha doctrines wrongly thinking in them as mind stream stuff. Psychological continuity is not a teaching of the historical Buddha. In which case, why did the Buddha repeatedly tell us (in the Dvedhavitakka Sutta): Whatever a bhikkhu frequently thinks and ponders upon, that will become the inclination of his mind. If there is no psychological continuity, how can a mind be said to "incline" towards anything at all?
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