First process of life, through mind door
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...