The next question, on page Eighty Seven is
Why don't we, after attaining the fourth jhana, go straight to the aggregates and instead have to meditate on the body, skeleton, kasinas, elements, materiality, mentality, dependent origination, and Vipassana?
Oh c'mon! If you don't know you shouldn't ask.
I did not know, so it was news to me.
Sayadaw says, to begin with, we must see the three marks of the three other (of the four ultimate realities excepting Nirvana, which are consciousness, mental states and matter <<I did not know that>>).....
Well now just hold on, I'm reading all about these realities:
WHEW
Anyway, although matter and consciousness and mental states are subject to arising and passing away and Nirvana is not, they are thought of as 'ultimate' because there really isn't anything else around except concepts (and there are a lot of those).
Feeling, formations and perception hang out in the mental states area.
Here from the above link is
the citta with mindfulness, occurring through the mind-door, taking the
perished vipaaka citta as its object, will prevent the arising of
causative unwholesome cittas that lead to future suffering.
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