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| rupa |
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form or matter, materiality | that which offers resistance to the senses
includes 4 elements of earth, air, fire, water |
| vedana |
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sensation | includes three modes of cognition (pleasure,
pain, neutral) which condition our responses
takes place through six sense organs (including mind) which are themselves rüpa |
| samjna |
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perception, cognition | the subjecting of pain/pleasure/neutral
perceptions to further conceptualizations - the web of associations
cognition of patterns takes place, such as color, shape, motion, etc., which leads to the cognition of objects Also refers to thinking or rationalizing |
| samskara |
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karmic conditioning, mental formations, habits, pre-dispositions | the karmic (product of previous vedanic
experience) latencies which predispose us to perceive or react in certain
ways
Only volitional acts have karmic effects if samjña refers to cognition, then samskära refers to re-cognition |
| vijnana |
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bifurcative consciousness | arises when organ comes into contact with
its object
"bifurcative" because it splits the world into a duality of experiencer (self) and experience (other) when in fact both self and other are aspects of experience, not the other way around |