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One of the absolute foundational teachings in the Darma. In fact arguably it's the core insight that

of Buddhist psychology is called in the Buddhist time is called the Paticea Samapada.

There's absolutely no good translation of it.

So, and I don't like the ones that are in contemporary usage.

So I'll just explain that the Patietje Samapata

was the Buddha's sort of sequence of how suffering and distress arises in life.

And he lists a set of stages that explains the very

the process of mental experience that

eventually flourishes into both

happiness. eventually flourishes into both happiness, peace of mind, or suffering in distress. So it's a sequence of stages.

The core stages that are of interest to anyone who works in

Buddha's psychology is the Buddha teaches that right after the development of consciousness we attain the state of

uh... or this stage of what he calls nam rupa and a basic translation of that would be body mind.

A mind, a proto mind, a proto personality

consisting of very basic perceptions and ideas about what is good and bad in the world,

what we should look to for safety, what we should flee from, what we should avoid, what we should gravitate towards.

Now in traditional early Buddhism, the explanation for how this came about was essentially karma. The idea was you did shit in your

previous life and then that somehow you jumped from a previous life into a new body and you carry with you some of the

tendencies and traits and that would create this sort of protoality that is there from birth. In case you're wondering, I don't believe that.

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