The Buddha has declared that the mind is more picturesque than that carana picture. As an adaptation of that carana picture for the modern day, we referred to the movie film and the drama in connection with our discussion of san-kharas in particular and paticca samuppada in general. Today, let us try to move a little forward in the same direction.
In the latter part of the same Second Gaddulasutta of the Samyutta Nikaya, Khandhasasamyutta, the Buddha gives a simile of a painter. Translated it would read as follows: “Just as a dyer or a painter would fashion the likeness of a woman or of a man, complete in all its major and minor parts, on a well planed board, or a wall, or on a strip of cloth, with dye or lac or turmeric or indigo or madder, even so the untaught worldling creates, as it were, his own form, feelings, perceptions, preparations, and consciousness.
” What the Buddha wants to convey to us by this comparison of the five grasping groups to an artefact done by a painter, is the insubstantiality and the vanity of those five groups. It brings out………… eBook
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