Is luminous mind unconditioned and not impermanent?
score:4
Actually, no. Because pabhassara-citta must arise. Because if pabhassara-citta will never arise, it can't be defiled by incoming defilements which will arise to defile it, too.
Citta, viññāṇa, mano are the synonym of each other in SN Nidānavagga, assutavasutta:
“But, bhikkhus, as to that which is called ‘mind(citta)’ and ‘mentality(mano)’ and ‘consciousness(viññāṇa)’ —the uninstructed worldling is unable to experience revulsion towards it, unable to become dispassionate towards it and be liberated from it.
So, pabhassara-citta is conditioned (sankhara) and impermanent (anicca) by SN Khandhavagga, Aniccasutta:
consciousness is impermanent.
Therefore, paphassara-citta is included in one synonym of citta In abhidhamma, dhammasaṅgiṇī, kusalacittuppādakaṇṭa:
The citta which is arising while the occation (that 1st wholsome citta is arising) means citta, mano, mānasa, hadaya, paṇḍara (paphassara), mano, manāyatana, manindriya, viññāṇa, viññāṇa-khandha, and tajjā manoviññāṇadhātu — this is the citta which is arising while the occation.
(Translated version is not correct, so I did not quote from that. I have to translate myself.)
Upvote:2
There is nothing in the teaching that sounds like the luminous mind is permanent; just as saying 'teeth are white' does not sound like permanence. The suttas say in many places (SN 22.59; Assutavā Sutta) whatever mind it is, be it gross or subtle; be it vinnana, manas or citta, it is impermanent.
More post
- 📝 How do you know if you have bad/good karma?
- 📝 Is Mindfulness a poor translation for Sati?
- 📝 Does accepting duality lead only to nondual skillfull qualities?
- 📝 The meaning v of this phrase in Satipattana Sutta
- 📝 What is the buddhist way of responding to compliments?
- 📝 Eclecticism in the Dhamma (as per AN 3.72; AN 3.65; MN 20)
- 📝 How was it possible for some people to refute the Buddha face to face?
- 📝 Does sutta recitation actually entail understanding of the text?
- 📝 How do you know which mantra suits you the most?
- 📝 What does Buddhism say about intentionally killing dangerous insects and beings?
- 📝 Sampajañña: what is the correct action?
- 📝 Is non-emptiness empty?
- 📝 Shiva's 112 ways to attain enlightenment and Buddha's way
- 📝 What could a lay follower do to increase his zeal to become a monk?
- 📝 What does "becoming" mean in the phrase "the 10 fetters of becoming"?
- 📝 What is the root condition for (each of the) unwholesome roots of greed, ill-will and delusion (raga, dosa, moha)?
- 📝 How was the Buddha Jayanti edition of the Tripitaka derived?
- 📝 Is there a list of (all the) Suttas that mention supranormal powers?
- 📝 How do mahayana Buddhist sutras describe a realized bodhisattvas?
- 📝 What is the reference for taming a ferocious bathhouse Naga into a tiny snake in a bowl?
- 📝 Buddha's view on sexuality
- 📝 I had peace initially while meditating and then lost it?
- 📝 Various types of death
- 📝 Why does Mara, the Evil One one comes looking for consciousness at death?
- 📝 Implementing the Satipatthana Sutta IRL [HELP]
- 📝 Buddha Statue Identification
- 📝 What is effluent?
- 📝 Can Buddhism be viewed as a threat to the capitalist way of life?
- 📝 What is the "Unconditioned" that the Buddha is talking about? And vinjana in Buddhsm
- 📝 gradual versus sudden enlightenment
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Is luminous mind unconditioned and not impermanent?
- 📝 How are 'conceit' and 'identity-view' not the same?
- 📝 Attachment is a poison. Why is attachment to the Buddha and to Buddhist philosophy not a problem?
- 📝 Ignorant mind and Buddha nature
- 📝 Do monks not have responsibility towards parents and family?
- 📝 In the Anapanasati Sutta, what is the difference between mind and mental processes?
- 📝 Meditation and good deeds vs clarity of mind during death
- 📝 Keeping in mind impermanence, suffering and non-self
- 📝 Dualism of mind and matter in Buddhism
- 📝 To debate or not to debate? and When to debate? and How to debate?
- 📝 Is there any explanation on why only humans and animals do not remember previous life?
- 📝 Why does 'thoughts' and 'memories' not part of aggregates?
- 📝 How can I accept losing control of my mind and will?
- 📝 Monks precepts - Not to teach dhamma to women and not to recite dhamma in pali with laymen?
- 📝 When to help and when not to?
- 📝 Sati-Sampajañña and a quiet mind
- 📝 Why does the mind always want to 'do something' and how to cultivate 'non-doing'?
- 📝 Taming the mind and Homelessness
- 📝 Why island and not light?
- 📝 Why our mind always live in habits? Why we are always making new habits? What will happen if habits are not formed?
- 📝 Sunyata is the truth and compassion is not an illusion?
- 📝 How can the Buddha (after he was enlightened) reflect that he was not at ease and then became at ease in seclusion?
- 📝 If I download illegal material for my education and if the material is not in my reach in my country, is it still bad karma?
- 📝 Why will-power could not be used to regulate kaya , vedana and citta?
- 📝 How and when does one not invest in others in Buddhism?
- 📝 Why is 'do not be unfair' not a precept? And some related questions on precepts
- 📝 Sutta references which Discuss Self and Not Self under Different Contexts
- 📝 Observing fever and Not taking medicine?
- 📝 When the Pali suttas say that it is not the "same" thing that is born and dies what do they mean?
- 📝 First cause, appearances and mind