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**zatronanec** · 05-12-2011, 09:40 AM

Im just trying to understand the fifth aggregate better thats all, how about when you talk to someone you look at them and hear them at the same time. The buddha says that consciousness does not flow as one but is rather made up of mental states which arise and fall moment by moment. So I'm asking if eye consciousness arises then falls then ear consciousness arises then falls, then eye consciousness arises then falls, but this alll happens in a way that makes it appear as if one consciousness is hearing and seeing at the same time. Thoughts?

05-12-2011, 09:40 AM	#5
zatronanec Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	Im just trying to understand the fifth aggregate better thats all, how about when you talk to someone you look at them and hear them at the same time. The buddha says that consciousness does not flow as one but is rather made up of mental states which arise and fall moment by moment. So I'm asking if eye consciousness arises then falls then ear consciousness arises then falls, then eye consciousness arises then falls, but this alll happens in a way that makes it appear as if one consciousness is hearing and seeing at the same time. Thoughts?
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