BUD502 CLEAR THINKING Ch 5

Question 1

Form-Source

āyatana आयतन

Answer 1

That which can be apprehended by an eye-consciousness.

Equivalents: form, form-constituent (dhātu धातु)

Colour and Shape

4 Primary Colours
- white, red, yellow, blue

8 Secondary Colours (bases for mistakenness)

• clouds, smoke, dust, mist, light, darkness, shadow, sunlight
• additionally, includes tradition secondary colours, like green

8 Shapes
-long-short, high-low, square-round, regular-irregular

Modern Western

• depth, colour, motion, contrast
• proximity, continuity, closure ascertained by mental consciousness.

Question 2

Sound

Answer 2

That which is audible to an ear-consciousness

Question 3

Smell-Source

Answer 3

That which is experienced by a nose consciousness

Question 4

Taste

Answer 4

That which is experienced by a tongue-consciousness

SIX TYPES
- Sweet, sour, bitter, astringent, hot, salty

Question 5

Tangible Object

Answer 5

That which is experienced by a body-consciousness

Twofold Classification:

1. That are Elements
2. Composed of Elements (sensibilia - smoothness, roughness, heaviness, lightness, cold, hunger and thirst)

Question 6

Earth

Answer 6

That which is hard and obstructive

Question 7

Water

Answer 7

That which is wet and moistening

Question 8

Fire

Answer 8

That which is hot and burning

Question 9

Wind

Answer 9

That which is light and moving

Question 10

Eye Sense Faculty

Answer 10

That which serves as the dominant condition for the simultaneous arising and expanding of an eye consciousness

Fill in ear, nose, tongue, body where eye is for other sense faculties.

Subtle Forms

1. Eye - Flax Flower
2. Ear - twisted gnarl of wood
3. Nose - copper needles
4. Tongue - two half moons
5. Body - smooth

Question 11

Primary Mind

Answer 11

That which only apprehends the essence or entity of an object (free from imputation)

Question 12

Mental Events

Answer 12

That which is aware of specific characteristics or features of objects but not their entities or essence.

Question 13

Nonassociated Formations

Answer 13

That which is neither matter nor consciousness and is observable as a conditioned phenomenon.

Example: Impermanence of form. Any imputed idea of duration (time, aging, growth, dying, etc.)

Question 14

Nonassociated Formation that is a person

Answer 14

The imputed existent that is imputed to the continuum of the collection of the four or five aggregates.

Question 15

Nonassociated Formations that are not the person

Answer 15

The four qualities of conditioned phenomena (birth, aging, abiding and impermanence) of time (year and month) and of activity.