I think not so easy.Pulsar wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 8:49 pm ..
So from the perspective of this sutta, if you practice it accordingly, in the times of your meditation, you are not obsessing over that person. There is no need to sit cross legged to meditate so. You can do it anytime of the day, discipline your mind, so that her/his rupa does not appear in your mind. If you succeed like this, you don't have to worry about further feelings arising due to the person. Once contact is blocked no related feeling arises.
The suffering ceases at least during that meditation. ..
The rupa what arises(as you put it) prolly is the actual physcal body, which nearness is responsible for the contact to happen. When you are thinking of the person, there is no contact to be spoken of, but namarupa.
Two excluding matters, if you have the object as its real physical form nearby affecting, there happens the contact, not the namarupa.
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Also the blocking of rupa(form) or contact(phassa) sounds wrong. Concentration would be called suppression and that is fabrication. Nirodha is about not making an intent to continue bhava(existence) or end bhava.
Can you bring a term for blocking? you mean it is the meaning of nirodha?