Contact

phassa

Mind & theory Core — needs to be understood Stage 4 of 8

The meeting of sense organ, object and consciousness. Every experience begins with contact — and with it what has to be fully understood.

On the path: 4 · How experience arises — What is it we call a person and a world? The five aggregates, the sense fields, contact, feeling, craving, clinging — not-self as a first introduction. → to this stage in the learning path

In the map of the teaching: DN 34 · Groups of one · Fully understanding · DN 34 · Groups of four · Fully understanding · DN 34 · Groups of nine · Hard to grasp · DN 33 · dn33:2.2.10

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Passages where phassa occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Tipiṭaka · Verbundene Lehrreden 12.2 · German Primary passage

das nennt man Kontakt. Und was sind die sechs Sinnesfelder? Die Sinnesfelder von Auge, Ohr, Nase, Zunge, Körper und Geist; das nennt man die sechs Sinnesfelder. Und was sind Name und Form? Gefühl, Wahrnehmung, Absicht, Kontakt und Gebrauch des Geistes; das nennt man Name. Die vier Grundzustände und die Form, die von den vier Grundzuständen abgeleitet ist; das nennt man Form. So ist Name, und so ist Form; das nennt man Name und Form. Und was ist Bewusstsein? Es gibt sechs Klassen von Bewusstsein: Augenbewusstsein, Ohrbewusstsein, Nasenbewusstsein, Zungenbewusstsein, Körperbewusstsein und Geistbewusstsein; das nennt man Bewusstsein. Und was sind Willensbildungsprozesse? Es gibt diese drei …

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Tipiṭaka · sn12.24 · German

Phassaṁ paṭicca. Iti vadaṁ vuttavādī ceva me assa, na ca maṁ abhūtena abbhācikkheyya, dhammassa cānudhammaṁ byākareyya, na ca koci sahadhammiko vādānupāto gārayhaṁ ṭhānaṁ āgaccheyyāti. Tatrāvuso, ye te samaṇabrāhmaṇā kammavādā sayaṅkataṁ dukkhaṁ paññapenti tadapi phassapaccayā. Yepi te …pe… yepi te …pe… yepi te samaṇabrāhmaṇā kammavādā asayaṅkāraṁ aparaṅkāraṁ adhiccasamuppannaṁ dukkhaṁ paññapenti tadapi phassapaccayā. Tatrāvuso, ye te samaṇabrāhmaṇā kammavādā sayaṅkataṁ dukkhaṁ paññapenti, te vata aññatra phassā paṭisaṁvedissantīti netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjati. Yepi te …pe… yepi te …pe… yepi te samaṇabrāhmaṇā kammavādā asayaṅkāraṁ aparaṅkāraṁ adhiccasamuppannaṁ dukkhaṁ paññapenti, te vata aññatra …

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Pāli commentaries · idānavagga-aṭṭhakathā · Pāli

iti vada nti phassapaccayā dukkhanti evaṃ vadantoti attho| tatrā ti tesu catūsu vādesu| te vata aññatra phassā ti idaṃ ‘‘tadapi phassapaccayā’’ti paṭiññāya sādhakavacanaṃ| yasmā hi na vinā phassena dukkhapaṭisaṃvedanā atthi, tasmā jānitabbametaṃ yathā ‘‘tadapi phassapaccayā’’ti ayamettha adhippāyo|
Nyingma treasure texts · Palchen Düpa · English

ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཨརྒྷཾཿ པཱ་དྱཾ་ པུཥྤེ་ དྷུ་པེ་ དཱི་པཾ་ གནྡྷེ་ རཱུ་པ་ ཤཔྟ་ གནྡྷེ་ རཱ་ས་ པརྴེ་སརྦ་པཱུ་ཙ་ཨཱཿཧཱུཾཿ om benza argham padam pupé dhupé dipam ghandhé | rupa shapta ghandhé rasa saparshé sarva putsa ah hum oṃ vajra-arghaṃ pādyaṃ puṣpe dhūpe dīpaṃ gandhe | rūpa śabda gandhe rāsa sparśa sarva-pūja āḥ hūṃ སྨན་གཏོར་རཀྟའི་སྔགས་ཀྱིས་བརླབ༔ Do the blessing with the amṛta, torma, and rakta mantra.
Āyurveda · Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasūtra · Sanskrit

6.13bv sparśo śīto garāpahaḥ 6.13bv sparśa-śīto viṣāpahaḥ vṛṣyaḥ sthairya-karo mūtra-medaḥ-pitta-kaphāñ jayet | pīnasa-śvāsa-kāsoru-stambha-kaṇṭha-tvag-āmayān || 14 ||

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