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Brilliant! Bhante’s exposition on the mystery, wisdom and escape of “three” deeply and lastingly inspires. (Reminds of Heinrich Wolfflin’s deconstructing Renaissance art 🙂 ) And, of course, his use of it to implore us to humility before the “other” and “unknown” is righteous and beautiful.
Also just want to say that Bhante’s gesture, around minute 18:00, where he swivels his extended thumb to the palm of his hand, at the base of the other figures, to illustrate how vinnana underlies rupa, vedanna, sanna and sankhara, floored me. He has mentioned before how, in EBT, there is only one type of vinnana, always dependent on a ayatana; and, this perplexed me because, for instance, the khandha model seems to suggest that a form of vinnana arises from sankhara (just as rupa gives rise to vedana, etc.). This gesture brought about a clarity like a wordless Buddha upholding a single flower. Sadhu, yet again.
Brilliant! Bhante’s exposition on the mystery, wisdom and escape of “three” deeply and lastingly inspires. (Reminds of Heinrich Wolfflin’s deconstructing Renaissance art 🙂 ) And, of course, his use of it to implore us to humility before the “other” and “unknown” is righteous and beautiful.
Also just want to say that Bhante’s gesture, around minute 18:00, where he swivels his extended thumb to the palm of his hand, at the base of the other figures, to illustrate how vinnana underlies rupa, vedanna, sanna and sankhara, floored me. He has mentioned before how, in EBT, there is only one type of vinnana, always dependent on a ayatana; and, this perplexed me because, for instance, the khandha model seems to suggest that a form of vinnana arises from sankhara (just as rupa gives rise to vedana, etc.). This gesture brought about a clarity like a wordless Buddha upholding a single flower. Sadhu, yet again.