No Being exists
apart from Mentality-Materiality...
There
is no "person" neither inside, nor outside the duality of Name-and-Form:
Feeling, perception, mental construction and consciousness defines all Mentality.
The 4 primary elements: Solidity, fluidity, heat & motion defines all
Materiality.
After defining mentality-materiality one can leave the common concept "a
being"
and "a person" more thoroughly, since these now are seen more realistically
as
compounded accumulated collections of mentality-&-materiality, name-&-form...
Strictly speaking: This is mere mentality-materiality, there is no being, no
person!
As the Blessed Buddha expressed it at various
levels of generalization:
As with the assembly of parts, the designation "car" emerges as
conceptualized,
So, when the 5 clusters of clinging are present, "a being" is named by
convention... SN I 135
Just as when a part of space is enclosed with timber & bricks,
there comes to be
the term "house", so too, when a space is enclosed with bones,
sinews,
flesh, fat
and skin, there comes into being the designation "body". MN I
190
It is ill (Dukkha) alone that
arises, ill that remains, ill that vanishes!
Nothing else than ill arises, and nothing else than ill ceases...SN I 135
This is mere mentality-materiality, there is no being, no person, no
substance!
