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**pIp83Uns** · 05-27-2011, 02:38 AM

Yes, I think that's it.

The question is about how that sense of self kicks in again after somebody has regained consciousness. But again, I am not making any assertions here--I just want to eyeknow if this question, or something similar ever came up as recorded in the Pali scriptures. There are people here who are much more familiar with those texts than I am.

It's just the same as at any other time: The eye sees a form and a sensation arises that is pleasant,unpleasant, or neutral,etc. "consciousness" is not seen as a "something" that can be "lost" and "regained". You are working with an entirely different pardigm here, that has an entirely different aim.

Instead of trying to speculate as to what the mind is, the Buddha's teachings aim to explain how greed, anger, delusion and resultant misery arise in what we think of as "the mind", and how to extinguish them.

05-27-2011, 02:38 AM	#19
pIp83Uns Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 530 Senior Member	Yes, I think that's it. The question is about how that sense of self kicks in again after somebody has regained consciousness. But again, I am not making any assertions here--I just want to eyeknow if this question, or something similar ever came up as recorded in the Pali scriptures. There are people here who are much more familiar with those texts than I am. It's just the same as at any other time: The eye sees a form and a sensation arises that is pleasant,unpleasant, or neutral,etc. "consciousness" is not seen as a "something" that can be "lost" and "regained". You are working with an entirely different pardigm here, that has an entirely different aim. Instead of trying to speculate as to what the mind is, the Buddha's teachings aim to explain how greed, anger, delusion and resultant misery arise in what we think of as "the mind", and how to extinguish them.
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