Why are Concepts not Impermanent?
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Why are Concepts not Impermanent? I found the below explanation in another forum. Are they Permanent? or not both?
> Conventional reality (sammuti sacca/ pannatti) is just a concept and
> not real. Non-real dhammas don’t exist and therefore cannot be anicca
> or dukkha.
>
> According to Abhdhamma:
>
> - dhamma = paramata + pannatti
> - paramata = sankhata + asankhata
> - sankhata = citta + cetasika + rupa
> - asnkhata = nibbana
> - dhamma = citta + cetasika + rupa + nibbana + pannatti
>
> All the dhammas are anatta. Anatta means devoid of
> essence/self/ownership/hegemony.
>
> Only the sankhata (compounded) is anicca-dukkha. Nibbana and Pannatti
> are anatta only.
>
> Nibbana is real but not compounded. Therefore not anicca-dukkha.
> Pannatti is non-real. Therefore not anicca-dukkha.
> **In Theravada, Concept is an object (unreal object).** It is not the
> Concept-formation of our mind. Mind and mental factors that form a
> concept do arise and cease, but not the Concept.
> The conceptualizing in mind is the impermanent one, but not the
> Conceptual-object of Conceptualizing-mind. **Pannatti is an object.** This
> fake object is perceived by the impermanent mind.
> The colors that the eye sees in a movie are real, but not the concept
> of “movie”. What is fake is the Object pointed by the Idea of “movie”.
> **What “Conceptualizing” points to, is the Concept.** It is a fake object
> that “Conceptualizing” points to.
>
> **The pointer exists, but “what is pointed” doesn’t exist.**
>
> So Concepts are not considered as anicca or dukkha.
Conventional Reality is not Impermanent!
Introduction to the Ultimacy (International Institute of Theravada)
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Oct 5, 2022, 12:57 AM
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