Dhamma with Ajahn Sujin

Transcript from 2014-5-26-pm.mp3 (57m) by Chanti, edited by Alberto. [Q.] Ajahn, can you please explain about the process of cittas experiencing an object? [A. Sujin] What doorway? Mind door or sense door? Mind door comes first because the first door, after birth, is mind door, always mind door. [....] So, what is meant by sense door, mind door and process? The first moment of life, the rebirth consciousness, does it experience any object? Yes, right, through what doorway? In order to understand what is meant by doorway or process, there must be the understanding of: citta arises, no matter what is its object, it experiences just an object. There is no citta without an object, because citta arises and experiences. So there must be the object which citta experiences. No matter when.  Everyone knows the moment of being fast asleep: is there citta arising and falling away all the time from moment to moment? At the moment of being fast asleep, who knows? No one at all. Because citt...

(Transcript by Chanti, edited by Alberto) [Ann] The question was, when one's killed one dies, I guess it's the cuti citta... somehow we were talking about jivitindriya, the life faculty... A. Sujin: And we will never know  or understand the reality of killing or [any other] reality right now, if we still keep on thinking about situations. We read a lot from Sutta, Vinaya, Abhidhamma, but what do we get from all these words? To understand that there is no self. And the absolute truth is different realities, the flux of the arising and falling away of all dhátus, elements. Uncontrollable. So, the point is to understand them as not me, not ours at all. No one there, like now, what appears? There is no understanding precisely about the reality which is seen as it is, but we keep on thinking in terms of people and things and situations. So if we do not have conditions enough to understand what appears now… (then) no understanding of the absolute realities, that are not ...