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Hadaya
Vathu: Heart Base for Consciousness |
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All of us are
much conditioned by an age where scientific discoveries seem so testable
and provable. It is natural that doubts arise on this matter. The
visuddhimagga (viii, 111) says about hadaya-vatthu (heart basis): they
describe the heart and then note that inside the heart "there is hollow
the size of a punnaga seeds bed where half a pastata measure of blood is
kept, with which as their support the mind element and mind-consciousness
element occur." Note that it is not the heart itself that is the
hadaya-vatthu NOR is it the blood inside the heart but rather as the
Paramatthamanjusa (see vis.xiii note 5 ) says "the heart basis occurs
with this blood as its support". You see the actual hadaya-vatthu is
incredibly sublime - in scientific measure it wouldn't even amount to a
tiny fraction of a gram. It might even be so refined as to be
unmeasuarable by scientific instruments. |
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Source :
http://www.abhidhamma.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=40&mode=threaded&pid=124 |
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Source: Buddhist Dictionary, Manual of
Buddhist Terms and Doctrines,
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Source: http://glossary.buddhistdoor.com/en/word/3707/hadaya-vatthu |
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Video by Sayalay Dipankara on hadaya-vatthu / heart-basis |
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