MENTALITY - MATERIALITY -- Nama - rupa
| "With, consciousness as a
condition mentality - materiality arises." Mentality-materiality is a term for the psycho-physical organism. When the rebirth consciousness springs up at the time of conception it does not arise in isolation. It arises in association with the totality of the psycho-physical organism, which also comes into being at the time of conception. A living being is a compound of five aggregates, the material factor being form and four mental factors being feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness. In the case of a human rebirth the materiality or form is the body of the new-born organism, the single fertilized egg. On the mental side, associated with the consciousness, are the other three factors - feeling, perception and mental formations. These five aggregates continue all the way to death dependent on each other. |