U certainly brought up something interesting for me to read.Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:29 amI’d recommend studying all of the texts. In terms of namarupa DN15 is quite pertinent to the discussion. It always comes up, so an opinion is needed on it either way:
Contact
"'From name-&-form as a requisite condition comes contact. Thus it has been said. And this is the way to understand how, from name-&-form as a requisite condition comes contact. If the qualities, traits, themes, & indicators by which there is a description of name-group were all absent, would designation-contact with regard to the rupa-group be discerned?"
"No, lord."
"If the permutations, signs, themes, and indicators by which there is a description of rupa-group were all absent, would resistance-contact with regard to the name-group be discerned?"
"No, lord."
"If the permutations, signs, themes, and indicators by which there is a description of name-group and rupa-group were all absent, would designation-contact or resistance-contact be discerned?"
"No, lord."
"Thus this is a cause, this is a reason, this is an origination, this is a requisite condition for contact, i.e., name-and-form.
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It looks like DO have both 3 life model and a momentary model.