Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:28 am
Pondera wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 9:23 am
Aha. And yet you must still convince us that the Abhidamma isn’t a pile of useless lists
Please tell us in detail what happens in a moment of cognition?
Oh. You want to get into “cognition”? That’s a laugh. Let’s look at the suttas. He tastes “bitter” he tastes “sweet” he tastes “pungent” he tastes “bland”. That is why they call it “cognition”.
Funny right? Well that is exactly what the Buddha said about “cognition”. What did he say about “perception”?
He perceives red. He perceives blue. Yellow. White. Thus it is called perception.
Probably not what you were looking for? Okay. I’ll take the bait.
Cognition of what? Let’s take something useful.
Cognition of the three marks upon the skhanda of perception.
A perception independently arises from an external object creating friction upon another external object. We call this “sound”. The mind cognizes “sound”. Within the “sound” the mind further cognizes further realities. It cognizes the mark of ill. It cognizes the mark of impermanence. It cognizes the mark of not-self. The sound disintergarates and the mind in samadhi turns it’s attention to other skhandas as they arise, persist, and fade.
So long as the mind has a sense object to perceive - cognition attaches to that object.
If it attaches with wisdom - it views that perceptual object as ill, impermanent, and not self.
If it attaches with lust - it views it as pleasant, permanent and self.
If it attaches with hate - it views it as painful, a lasting affliction, an approbation of ones self
If it attaches with delusion - it disregards it’s features entirely.