[didrexx]

just contemplate on following:

kabalinkahara leads to passa-ahara
passa-ahara leads to manosa-sancetanahara through feeling and perception
when one clings to feeling and perception with my and mine, it leads to sankhara
sankhara leads to vinnana-ahara

this goes round and round without ending

just contemplate and try to see

Hi upekka,

I can see what you are saying but Buddha and the arhats still ate after their liberation in order to sustain their bodies. They ate without greed and ignorance. The act of eating, the food itself, did not drag them back into bondage.

The key thing here is desire born of ignorance. All Buddhist schools, as far as I know, posit ignorance (not food) as the prime cause of our bondage.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that point.