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Old 06-16-2010, 12:51 AM   #29
husartrof

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Please understand that ordinarily our body and mind are not in a condition to experience suffering. There must be ignorance or something to condition it to become receptive to the possibility of suffering. And so it is said that the mind/body only now arises in this case. It means that ignorance conditions consciousness and this consciousness helps the mind/body change and arise to action and become capable of experiencing suffering.

In this kind of mind/body, at this moment, the sense bases arise which are also primed to experience suffering.
So what Buddhadasa describes above is simply what is pictured below:



The cartoon above depicts a body-mind conditioned by ignorance that is ready to make contact with the world in an unskilful way & get burned by suffering.

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