Abhidhamma in Daily Life
187  Function of Javana

When we see, hear, smell, taste, experience an object through the body- sense or through the mind-door, there is not only one citta experiencing the object through the appropriate doorway, but a series or process of cittas. A rupa which impinges on one of the senses is experienced by a series of cittas. When that sense-door process is over, the object is experienced by cittas through the mind-door. Sense-door processes and mind-door processes arise and fall away continuously.

This series or process of cittas which arise through the sense door process or the mind door process are called javana cittas.

Date 29 Mar 2024

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