Is Abhidhamma the Buddha's teaching?

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Re: Is Abhidhamma the Buddha's teaching?

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Dhammanando wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:04 am
plabit wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:10 pm But some impose their interpretation of what "mental formations" are by saying "volitional formations."
The translators who translate sankhārakkhandha as "aggregate of volitional formations" do so because, (1) the suttas define this aggregate as cha cetanakāyā, "the six classes of volition" (i.e., the volitions that arise in connection with visible forms, sounds, odours, etc.) and never define it in any other way, and (2) because they dissent from the Abhidhamma's expansion of just cetanā to the fifty cetasikas.
"the volitions that arise in connection with visible forms, sounds, odours"

they do a disservice by not explaining that. because the non-apiritual materialist reader always assumes the will to get to nibbana is included. but what am i saying? fools would twist it that way even if it were explained; the dhamma can only be understood by the wise (i.e. the spiritual)
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