What lasts longer: the Cheesburger or a perception of it?
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Cheeseburger is nama pannatti. Ideas about a particular cheeseburger is santhana pannatti. The physical cheeseburger is dathu which lasts only momentarily. Pannatti lasts longer than the object itself as it is not subjected to 3 characteristics as they are not real. So the pannatti lasts longer. The sanna about the cheeseburger lasts only momenterity and lasts much shorter. Same for the physical cheeseburger. Perception in your question can fit with both sanna and pannatti.
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asking what is real or not is a worthless question clung to by philosophers addicted to rupa who fail to see that the other aggregates are more important.
What matters is what you do with vedana, sanna, vinnana, rupa and sankharas, ie to view them with sati, right view, panna and so on.
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Asking what is real or not is a worthless question clung to by philosophers. The suttas say:
I will not engage in talk that is base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unbeneficial, that does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, calm, direct knowledge, self-awakening, or Unbinding β i.e., talk about kings, robbers & ministers of state; armies, alarms, & battles; food & drink; clothing, furniture, garlands, & scents; relatives; vehicles; villages, towns, cities, the countryside; women & heroes; the gossip of the street & the well; tales of the dead; tales of diversity, the creation of the world & of the sea; talk of whether things exist or not.' In this way he is alert there.
MN 122
The questions the Lord Buddha asked about cheeseburgers were:
Are cheeseburgers permanent or impermanent?
Do cheeseburgers bring lasting happiness or are they unsatisfactory?
Should cheeseburgers be regarded as 'This is mine. This is my self. This is what I am'?.
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