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DVI NAMA KIM? What is Two?
What Two Concepts, when seen to the Root with Penetrating Knowledge, and understood to the broadest limits, such that their repellant nature is seen as it really is and one has released them in their entirety, can bring one to the Uttermost Freedom of Detachment?
NAMA / RUPA
(NAMA = Name; RUPA = Matter)
Mind and Matter; the mental and the material; identity/entity
There is NAMA and there is RUPA.
NAMA encompasses everything, including RUPA; RUPA encompasses everything, including NAMA.
Without the co-existence (inter co- operation) of NAMA/RUPA there would not appear that which is known as an individual.
One, of many yarns accompanying "The 10 Questions", this one from The Minor Readings, translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Pali Text Society, London: 1960, is excerpted here [a good example of one style of Sutta transmission]:
"Now the turn has come for the commentary on the Boy’s Questions that begins with ‘One is what?’ We shall give a commentary after telling the Need Arisen [for their utterance] . . .
"The Need Arisen was this. The Blessed One had a great disciple called Sopaka. That venerable one developed final knowledge [A~N~NAA] at the age of only seven years from his birth. The Blessed One wanted to allow his Full Admission [to the Community] by the method of getting him to answer questions, and, seeing his ability to answer questions in the sense that he, the questioner himself, intended, he put the questions beginning with ‘One is what?’ The Boy answered and satisfied the Blessed One with his answers. And that was the venerable one’s Full Admission. This was the need arisen.
And here is the way the question in full is to be understood as translated by this Beggar: " . . . this is said by the Blessed One: ‘Bhikkhus, when a bhikkhu becomes completely dispassionate towards one [two, etc.] idea, when his lust for it completely fades away, when he is completely liberated from it, when he sees completely the ending of it, then he is one who, after attaining rightness [SAMMATTAM = a High Degree of Madness, meaning seeing things as they really are, considered mad by the world -- mo], makes an end of suffering here and now.
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