Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:57 pm
An annihilationist believes in a self which can be destroyed. An enternalist believes in a self that is never destroyed. I'm neither of those things.
This is wrong view. As per the Vaccagotta sutta an annihilationist holds the view that there is no self.
An eternalist holds the view that there is a permanent self, yes.
Someone who holds the view of a self which fully ceases at death would be simply a materialist.
Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:57 pm
Citta is dependently originated. It is dependent upon nāmarūpa thus being without substance, without permanence, without self, empty.
Citta is liberated
All phenomena have liberation as their core
Liberation is Nibbana
Nibbana is consciousness without surface, separate from the aggregates
All the above statements have a canonical basis.
Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:30 pm
Citta isn't some thing floating around.
Indeed it isn't. But an abhidhamma studier may conceive of it in various ways.
What I found from psychedelic experience is that protoconsciousness or witnessing faculty, is part of the structure of reality and can't appear or dissapear, in the same way as time or space.
I don't find the suttas contradicting this position and I find several passages in support in the Canon.
What you refer to as dependently arisen is simply nama-rupa and sensory consciousness, niether of which refers to the background protoconsciousnes without surface.
I am also not claiming this background awareness is 'God' or a creator, but it is deathless in some attribute.