According to the Yamaka Sutta quoted below, a run-of-the-mill person thinks one of the following:
- the form to be the self
- the self as possessing form
- the form as in the self
- the self as in form
And the same applies to the other aggregates.
If someone says with identity view, that "I am a professor", "I am an American", "I am successful" etc., what would this case be?
Is "professor" a mental fabrication? So, "I am a professor" (with identity view) would be the case of assuming a mental fabrication to be the self?
From the Yamaka Sutta (SN 22.85) :
> "In the same way, an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person — who has no
> regard for noble ones, is not well-versed or disciplined in their
> Dhamma; who has no regard for men of integrity, is not well-versed or
> disciplined in their Dhamma — assumes form (the body) to be the self,
> or the self as possessing form, or form as in the self, or the self as
> in form.
>
> "He assumes feeling to be the self...
>
> "He assumes perception to be the self...
>
> "He assumes (mental) fabrications to be the self...
>
> "He assumes consciousness to be the self, or the self as possessing
> consciousness, or consciousness as in the self, or the self as in
> consciousness.
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Aug 13, 2018, 03:49 PM
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