Dhamma with Ajahn Sujin

(Excerpt from the Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Sat Feb 25th 2023) 0:00 - Is anyone ready to be a new personality? [Nina] We are so afraid of losing our personality, the idea of after this life no more this person are difficult, but it takes a long time, as Ajahn says. [A. Sujin] Is there any personality at moment of being fast asleep? [Nina] Nobody. [M. Betty] At moments when you're fast asleep there are just bhavanga cittas (life continuum). [A. Sujin] And then waking up... [being] this personality, or waking up... not [being] this personality anymore? So, ready to be new personality because it can be anytime, it's just like being fast asleep, at that moment no personality, no appearing of anything at all, and then it's time to be born and at the very moment new personality, forgetting about the past completely. So it's just like being fast asleep and then new personality, only that, but is anyone ready to be a new personality? Because ...

(Excerpt from the EN-CN Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Sun Feb 26th 2023 am - 3rd part -) 0:00 - No chanda with ahetuka-cittas [Vincent] Da Zhuang was reading the text talking about chanda (the cetasika, mental factor, of interest) of the different kinds of citta including the supramundane, the magga cittas, they have also chanda, so what's the interest of these chanda then? [A. Sujin] We understand citta as much as we can, for example seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, does chanda arise with any of these cittas? [No.] Why not? [Vincent] Because they're ahetuka vipaka cittas (resultant consciousness without roots). [A. Sujin] [Just] the words... Because no choice, no matter one is interested to have it arising or not, it is there by conditions, as the result of kamma. And what about citta arising before seeing, does it arise with chanda? [No.] That's why we learn to understand the conditions for whatever arises, what arises and what d...