At what point do we arrest reification?
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Further to my last question on reification , I want to know the specificity of the application.
Gathering from the answers ;
> ...reifications are overcome by questioning them.
and
> Start by watching yourself in the middle of daily situations, watching
> your behavior and your mind, your state of mind, your emotions. See
> how you react, how you get angry or irritated or scared etc. See what
> situations and most importantly what thoughts trigger these reactions
> these states in you.
This paragraph talks about much higher-level mental formulations and emotions which I have overcome.
I am much interested or dealing with reifications suggested in Honey cake sutta which this answer points to, Buddha says;
> Mendicant, a person is beset by concepts of identity that emerge from
> the proliferation of perceptions. If they don’t find anything worth
> approving, welcoming, or getting attached to in the source from which
> these arise, just this is the end of the underlying tendencies to
> desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, the desire to be reborn, and
> ignorance.
Further Venerable Mahākaccāna explains this as;
> Eye consciousness arises dependent on the eye and sights. The meeting
> of the three is contact. Contact is a condition for feeling. What you
> feel, you perceive. What you perceive, you think about. What you think
> about, you proliferate. What you proliferate about is the source from
> which a person is beset by concepts of identity that emerge from the
> proliferation of perceptions. ***This occurs with respect to sights known
> by the eye in the past, future, and present***.
Based on Mahākaccāna's explain, I want to ask, for an e.g. I see a Banana kept on a table, my eye-consciousness arises based on my eye and sight of banana, and contact is made and based on that a feeling arises. What I feel I perceive and what I perceive I think about.
**In this sequence at what point do I have a choice to arrest the reification or perception? The moment I see the banana on the table may be within a fraction of seconds I perceive and get in the idea that its a palatable fruit, how can I question this idea that its a fruit and from my past memory I know I like its taste and I would like to eat it. This progress of events happen almost instantaneously. How much time do I have to question the model of my brain, which was trained way way back when I might have eaten the banana for the first time. How can I look at the banana as if I am looking at it for the first time and not recall from the model from my brain or form a new model?**
Asked by The White Cloud
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Mar 15, 2021, 10:51 AM
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