Name and Form...
Bhikkhu Samahita
Friends:
The Basic Duality is Name and Form...
The
Blessed Buddha once explained mentality-materiality like this:
So, bhikkhus, for the fool, who is blinded by
ignorance and obsessed
by craving, there re-arises this body. Now this body
with its 6 senses
sources makes a duality:
name-&-form or mentality-&-materiality...
Due to this duality there is
contact. Touched & stirred by
contact the
fool feels pleasure & pain. Bhikkhus, craving increases in any one who
dwells seeing enjoyment in things
productive of pleasure! With craving
as condition, there is clinging. Clinging is the condition causing becoming.
By becoming is there birth. Thus
re-arises a new body also with 6
senses.
With birth as condition the cycle of
ageing, sickness and death, sorrow,
lamentation and despair is thus renewed once again. Such is therefore
the origin of this entire mass of suffering.... (SN II 23-4, 84)
Comments:
Name-and-Form is a duality of two joined phenomena travelling trough
time together, just like 2 persons, who is travelling in the same boat:
Name or mind can be likened to a man with good eyes,
but without legs...
Mind can see & understand everything,
but not itself move even a sand corn!
Form or body materiality can be likened to a blind man with strong legs.
Matter and Body cannot see or
understand anything, but can lift a
stone...
Name-and-form, mind-and-matter, mentality-materiality joined together
becomes very effective, just like if
the seeing yet crippled man rides on
the shoulders of the blind man directing him about: Go this way & stop...
Mind is like the ghost in the bottle: Imprisoned, unconnected &
powerless...
Matter is like a robot with the power turned off: Blind, dumb and frozen...
Mind joined with matter however comes to life! Now both seeing and moving!
On Duality of Mind-&-Matter, Mentality-Materiality,
Naming & Forming:
Nāma-Rūpa,
The Core
Duality
Have a nice dual day!
Friendship is
the Greatest! 
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ Sri
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