Citta and cetasikas, the factory producing ideas
(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 ...