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This document discusses the Buddhist concept of rupa or material form. It begins by explaining that rupa is called such because it is subject to deformation from external conditions like heat, cold, etc. Rupa is divided into two categories - the four primary elements (earth, water, fire, wind) and 24 derivative types of matter. Rupa arises, exists for a brief period, and then dissolves within 17 mind moments. It explains the rupa kalapa or material groupings and how the four elements combine. The document outlines the 28 types of materiality, including the 18 types of real matter and 10 non-real types. It provides detailed descriptions of the four primary elements, five sense faculties, four objective
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- 2. Why is Råpa so called? • Råpa is so called because it is deformed, oppressed, broken by adverse physical conditions such as heat, cold, wind, sunburn, hunger, thirst, poison, by flies, mosquitoes, snake and so on.
- 3. Matter is 2 folds • Great elements (Mah -bhåta) – 4 • Derived materiality (Updya-råpa) – 24
- 4. Råpa (matter) arising static dissolution Life-span of Råpa= 17 Mind-moments
- 6. Råpa Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence Arise together Cease together Same common base
- 7. Why Necessary to Know Matter? • The Buddha: “A bhikkhu understands as it really is: ‘All materiality of whatever kind consists of the four great elements and materiality derived from the four great elements.’” And The Buddha says that without this knowledge, the bhikkhu is incapable of growth, increase, and fulfillment in this Dhamma and Vinaya.
- 8. 4 Great Elements4 Great Elements 1. Earth ElementsElements(pathavã-dhàtu) 2. Water ElementsElements(àpo-dhàtu) 3. Fire ElementsElements(tejo-dhàtu) 4. Wind ElementsElements(vàyo-dhàtu)
- 9. Earth Element • Characteristic = hardness • Function = to act as a support or foundation for the coexisting material phenomena • Manifestation = as receiving coexisting material phenomena • Proximate cause = the other 3 great elements
- 10. Water Element • Characteristic = flowing. • Function = to intensify the coexisting matter • Manifestation = as the holding together or cohesion of coexisting matter • Proximate cause = the other 3 great elements
- 11. Fire Element • Characteristic = heat or cold. • Function = to matures or ripens coxeisting material phenomena. • Manifestation = as a continuous supply of softness. • Proximate cause = the other 3 great elements • Four components of body in which fire element is predominant. 1. Heat that warms the body 2. Heat that causes maturing and ageing 3. Heat of fever 4. Digestive heat
- 12. Wind Element • Characteristic = supporting. • Function = to cause motion and movement in the other materiality. • Manifestation = as conveying to other places. • Proximate cause = the other 3 great elements
- 13. six types of wind In our body 1. Wind that moves upwards, causing belching, coughs, sneezing and related illness. 2. Wind that moves downwards, causing bowel movement and frequent motion. 3. Wind that moves about in the visceral cavity, apart from the large and small intestines. 4. Wind that moves about inside the large and small intestines. The wind which is in the intestines, push down the food that is eaten 5. Wind that moves within the limbs. 6. Wind inhaled and exhaled by us.
- 14. How 4 elements co-exist? • The 4 great elements are founded upon the earth element, held together by the water element, maintained by the fire element, and distended by the wind element.
- 15. 28 kinds of MaterialityMateriality 18 Real Materiality (Concretely Produced Materiality) 10 Non-real materiality (Non-concretely Produced Materiality)
- 16. 18 Real (Concretely Produced) Materiality 4 Great Elements 5 Sensitive Materiality Eye– Ear– Nose- Tongue– Body 4 Objective Materiality Colour– Sound- Smell– Taste 2 Sex Materiality Masculinity– Femininity 1 Heart Base 1 Life Faculty 1 Nutritive Essence
- 17. Pure Octad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence
- 18. 5 Sensitive Materiality Eye Sensitivity (Cakkhu-pasāda) • The sensitivity of primary elements that is ready for the impact of visible object. • The sensitivity substance in the retina that registers color or light. • It serves as a physical base for eye- consciousness.
- 19. Eye Decad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Eye sensitivity
- 20. Ear Sensitivity (Sota-pasāda) • The sensitivity of primary elements that is ready for the impact of sound. • It is the sensitivity substance found inside the ear hole that registers sound. • It serves as physical base for ear consciousness.
- 21. EarDecad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Earsensitivity
- 22. Nose Sensitivity (Ghāna-pasāda) • The sensitivity of primary elements that is ready for the impact of smell. • It is the sensitivity substance found inside the nose that registers smell. • It serves as physical base for nose consciousness.
- 23. Nose Decad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Nose sensitivity
- 24. Tongue Sensitivity (Jivhā-pasāda) • The sensitivity of primary elements that is ready for impact of taste. • It is the sensitive substance found diffused over the tongue that registers taste. • It is the physical base for tongue consciousness.
- 25. Tongue Decad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Tongue sensitivity
- 26. Body Sensitivity (kāya-pasāda) • The sensitivity of primary elements that is ready for impact of tangible objects. • It extends all over the body that is sensitive to touch or tangible object. • It serves as a physical base for body consciousness.
- 27. Body Decad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Body sensitivity
- 28. 4 Objective Materiality (Colour– Sound- Smell– Taste) 1. Colour : (a) Characteristic = impinge eye sensitivity. (b) Function = to be the object of eye consciousness and mental factor associated with it. 2. Sound: (a) Characteristic = impinge ear sensitivity. (b) Function = to be the object of ear consciousness and mental factor associated with it. 3. Smell: (a) Characteristic = impinge nose sensitivity. (b) Function = to be the object of nose consciousness and mental factor associated with it. 4. Taste: (a) Characteristic = impinge tongue sensitivity. (b) Function = to be the object of tongue consciousness and mental factor associated with it.
- 29. 2 Sexual Phenomena (bhàva-råpa) Female faculty • to show that “this is female”. • It manifests through the mark, sign, work, deportment and ways of the female. • It is found all over the body.
- 30. Male Faculty • To show that “this is a male”. • It manifests through marks, sign, work and the ways of the male. • It is found all over the body.
- 31. Male Sexual Decad Kalàpa 1. Earth element 2. Water 3. Fire 4. Wind 5. Colour 6. Smell 7. Taste 8. Nutritive Essence 9. Life Faculty 10. Male Faculty Female Sexual Decad Kalàpa 1. Earth element 2. Water 3. Fire 4. Wind 5. Colour 6. Smell 7. Taste 8. Nutritive Essence 9. Life Faculty 10. Female Faculty 2 Sexual Phenomena
- 32. Heart-Base (Hadaya-vatthu) • Being the material support for all consciousness except five sense consciousness. • It is found in the blood of the heart. • Each consciousness arises depending on only one heart-base.
- 33. Heart Base Decad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty 10.Heart Base
- 34. Life Faculty (Jīvitindriya) • It is a vital force in materiality that sustains the life of co-existing ten materiality. • It maintains only kamma-produced materiality, such as eye, ear, nose and so on.
- 35. Life Nonad Kalàpa 1.Earth element 2.Water 3.Fire 4.Wind 5.Colour 6.Smell 7.Taste 8.Nutritive Essence 9.Life Faculty
- 36. Nutritive Essence • Sustains the physical body and helps the growth of new Rupas in the body.
- 37. 18 Real Matter • Matter possessing intrinsic nature (sabhàva- råpa) • Matter possessing common characteristics (salakkhaa- råpa) • As concretely produced matter (nipphanna- råpa)
Editor's Notes
- When weather is cold
- Maha bhuta is like earth , derived materiality is like tree, derived materiality arises depand on great elements
- Rupa is powerful at static stage
- Rupa cannot arise singly but as a group, at least 8.
- It represents the principle of extension. It is due to this element of extension that objects occupy space
- Without water element to cohere the mountain, the mountain will disappear instantly. Another It binds the other 3 elements of earth, wind and fire so that they can stand together and depend on oneIt makes different particles of matter cohere, thereby preventing them from being scattered about.
- The liveliness of all beings and plants is preserved by this fire element
- One can sit erect due to wind element, move forward and backward
- All rupa ranging from immense mountain to sub-atomic particle aare formed by these 4 ele
- Why called concretely produced materially?
- Not eye itself ,but the sensitivity in the retina that register colour. Color, sound, smell, taste are internal. Each kalapa has different color, kalapa in blood has red colour, teeth has white color Each kalapa different taste , sour taste in stomach
- All rupa arises in a group, with at least 8 elements.
- Result of past kamma. Somebody in the past prayed for beautiful eyes.
- Eye sen is assisted by the four great ele whose functions are uphollding, cohering, maturing, and moving,. It is supported by temperature, con,and nutriment, it is maintained by life, it is furnish by colour, smell, taste,and nutriment. as
- Inside ear hole ,not other place.
- Arises in a group called
- Result of kamma. A lady who is ugly but her touch is extremly pleasant.
- Our sense faculty do not have enough resolution to detect the minute details of matters and mind. Therefore, we cannot breakdown the compactness of rupa and nama. For example a computer monitor or a TV monitor may consist of 1024x1024 dots. When these dots are excited by electron signals they display colors. Because the compactness of the dots (1024x1024 = 1,048,576 dots), which beyond the resolution of human eyes, the image appears on a monitor appear to us as a complete image. Each dot on a monitor is formed by photo sensitive material, which will display different colors under different exciting frequency and intensity. The movie is the manifestation of our incapability of breaking down the compactness of rupa kalapa. It is known that a movie consists of discrete frames of images. When these discrete frames of images are played in high speed our eyes are incapable to discern the gap between two frames. As a consequence, the movement of the discrete images in the film appears to us as continuous movement.
- Mark; mostauch, beard. , deportment: the way women walk, doing things ,when see the way somebody walk , know she is man or women .;work they engage; more subtle like nursse….Nowaday.. They arise at the moment of conception according to one”s wish or Kamma.
- Sorreya.while on his way for a bath in a carriage saw th e golden-hued body of the ”How I wish the monk were my wife, or else that my wife’s complexion were like his”.Remarried, 2 sons were born……Maha Kaccayana was invited for house dana. After the meal, told Him all the story and asked for forgiveness. Lady Sorreya cahanged back to male sorreya. Told his husband:”first I am a man, then became a woman, now have begun a man again. Father of 2 sons, mother of 2 sons , having gone through 2 transformation in one existewnce, no desire for household life. Maha kaccana ordained him. He was often asked: ”Whom do you loved more, the two sons you had as a father or the other two you had as a mother? Reply;My love for those born of my womb was greater. Felt much annoyed and ashamed. Stayed in solitude tried diligently .. “no personal attachment to anybody.” Buddha: what good neither mother nor father nor any other kinsmen can do to a man, a well –directed mind does to him and thereby ennobles him.
- Only 1 sexual faculty found .For she hemorprodiate.when she develops attacment to woman, her female faculty becomes hidden . Her male faculty becomes prominent. Result of kamma=sexual misconduct.
- Buddha did not mention directly heart-base, it is commentary explained it Last book,Buddha said: depanding on certain matter, mind element and mind con element arise.
- Cannot be found in other matter produced by temperature, citta and nutriment
- , like the water in the pond that prevents the lotus from withering. Thus, the life-faculty maintains the life of conascent kinds of matter
- they are directly produced by conditions such as kamma, consciousness, temperature, and nutriment