Nama Rupa

Nāma-rūpa  (lit. 'name and form'): 'mind-and-body', mentality and corporeality. It is the 4th factor in the dependent originating cause (pa ṭ iccasamuppāda  3, 4) where it is conditioned by consciousness, and on its part is the condition of the sixfold sense-base. In two texts (D. 14, 15), which contain variations of the dependent originating cause, the mutual conditioning of consciousness and mind-and-body is described, and the latter is said to be a condition of sense-impression {(contact) (phassa)}.

The third of the seven purity (visuddhi), the purity of (wrong) views, is defined in Vis.M. XVIII as the "correct seeing of mind-and-body," and various methods for the discernment of mind-and-body by way of insight-meditation (vipassanā) are given there. In this context, 'mind' (nāma) comprises all four mental groups, including consciousness.

In five-group-existence (pañca-vokāra-bhava,), mind-and body are inseparable and interdependent; and this has been illustrated by comparing them with two sheaves of reeds propped against each other: when one falls the other will fall, too; and with a blind man with stout legs, carrying on his shoulders a lame cripple with keen eye-sight: only by mutual assistance can they move about efficiently (s. Vis.M. XVIII, 32ff). On their mutual dependence.

With regard to the impersonality and dependent nature of mind and corporeality it is said:

"Sound is not a thing that dwells inside the conch-shell and comes out from time to time, but due to both, the conch-shell and the man that blows it, sound comes to arise: Just so, due to the presence of vitality, heat and consciousness, this body may execute the acts of going, standing, sitting and lying down, and the 5 sense-organs and the mind may perform their various functions" (D. 23).

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