on PAGE TWELVE, Sayadaw discusses the aforementioned 52 mental factors (all the factors of mentality from perception to feeling to energy, greed, rapture, etc.) and adds 89 types of consciousness. Here is a chart: Citta and bases Some of them are from the sense bases, and some are wholesome (such as those rooted in greed, hatred and delusion) and some are wholesome. He says that when one consciousness arises, so arise a 'number' of mental factors. He stresses the importance of knowing all these mental factors but also knowing the materiality upon which they are dependent.
To do that we must see the 'sub-atomic particles' that make up mentality called Rupa-kalapas. And yet are they particles? No, they are made of individual elements, precursors to the 'illusion of compactness.'
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