Please open in utube " mano citta vingnana" by Bhante rev. Punnaji thera. It may suit your way of understanding Buddhism just as me. I follow him and his many other sermons on utube as is explained with science. He was a western medicine practitioner before ordaining and had doctorates in psychology along with his knowledge of Tripitaka.form wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:59 pmI dunno about so many pali terms. I usually use modern psychology to understand Buddhism.justindesilva wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:45 amIn dependant origination the second conditioning is avidya paccaya sankara and the next is sankara paccaya vingnana.
Sankara is mainly threefold kaya sankara, vaci sankara and citta sankara while kaya sankara is connected to breathing.
While sleeping one breaths and the condition sankara is partially active. Hence Paticca samuppada while sleeping is not redundant and is active. Secondly rev.Punnaji thero explains that ayu sankara ( not often discussed) is metabolism which is also an active " sankara" during sleep. Hence when sankara is active Dependant co origination becomes active with next as nama Rupa and follows.
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