What is the duality of body and external name-and-form?
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What is the duality of body and external name-and-form?
What is the difference between the two? What is the relationship between the two?
From the Balapandita Sutta (SN 12.19) (translated by Bhikkhu Sujato):
> “Mendicants, for a fool hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving,
> this body has been produced.
>
> *“Avijjānīvaraṇassa, bhikkhave, bālassa taṇhāya sampayuttassa evamayaṃ
> kāyo samudāgato.*
>
> So there is the duality of this body and external name and form.
> Contact depends on this duality. When contacted through one or other
> of the six sense fields, the fool experiences pleasure and pain.
>
> *Iti ayañceva kāyo bahiddhā ca nāmarūpaṃ, itthetaṃ dvayaṃ, dvayaṃ
> paṭicca phasso saḷevāyatanāni, yehi phuṭṭho bālo sukhadukkhaṃ
> paṭisaṃvedayati etesaṃ vā aññatarena.*
The same excerpt translated here by Bhikkhu Bodhi:
> “Bhikkhus, for the fool, hindered by ignorance and fettered by
> craving, this body has thereby originated. So there is this body and
> external name-and-form: thus this dyad. Dependent on the dyad there is
> contact. There are just six sense bases, contacted through which—or
> through a certain one among them—the fool experiences pleasure and
> pain.
Also, as reference, from SN 12.2 (trans. Bodhi):
> “And what, bhikkhus, is name-and-form? Feeling, perception, volition,
> contact, attention: this is called name. The four great elements and
> the form derived from the four great elements: this is called form.
> Thus this name and this form are together called name-and-form.
Also, please note that the term "kāya" has been used in the sense of physical body for example in SN 22.56 (although I know that it can be used to mean group or collection, when combined with other things):
> eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind consciousness.
> *cakkhuviññāṇaṃ, sotaviññāṇaṃ,ghānaviññāṇaṃ, jivhāviññāṇaṃ,
> **kāyaviññāṇaṃ**, manoviññāṇaṃ.*
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