When an object (like visible form) meets its door (eye-sensitivity), doesn't consciousness arise? Eye-consciousness arises, but can it function alone? Don't feeling, perception, and volition arise together?
Is it beings who experience form, or feeling? Is it self that perceives, or perception? Is it beings who prompt experiencing and perceiving, or volition? When feeling, perception, and volition combine with consciousness, don't we have four mental aggregates? Are_these_beings_or_four_mental_aggregates?
Is eye-sensitivity a being? Is visible form a being? When analyzed, don't we get physical aggregate? Combined with four mental aggregates, (We get five aggregates, Lord).
At the moment of seeing, are there beings or five aggregates? At the moment of hearing, are there cities and countries or five aggregates? When the five aggregates are truly known, don't wrong views about beings disappear?
When truth is known, falsehood vanishes. #When_falsehood_vanishes_identity_view_breaks. These aggregates - don't they cease after seeing, after hearing? Knowing their impermanence, can we hold them as permanent (sassata view)? Knowing their continuity, can we hold them as annihilated (uccheda view)?
When the five aggregates are truly known, identity view breaks. When these three wrong views break, one becomes a Stream-enterer. #Becoming_Stream_enterer_brings_true_happiness.
Could all the wealth in Burma buy one path-knowledge? Can wealth prevent aging, sickness, death? Can_it_guarantee_freedom_from_lower_realms? But path-knowledge guarantees freedom from lower realms.
That's why the venerable Mogok Sayadaw taught: "Understanding Dhamma is priority one, livelihood is priority two." How crucial is understanding Dhamma!
One who understands Dhamma, gaining path-knowledge, closes the door to lower realms. With continued effort, like Dhammadinna, can't they achieve higher paths up to Arahantship? Understanding_Dhamma_is_crucial..."
Sadhu! Together let us keep the Dharma wheel rolling.