List of unresolved issues in Commentaries

[RobertK]

@jansen

I am searching for the paraphrases or identical texts in the Root that could justify the ideas of hadayavatthu as a separate materiality (hadayavatthuvāda),

There is also this thread about the heart base:

Heart base - or brain

This is edited from letters I wrote 20 years ago on heart base. A friend wrote to me that the reason they can’t believe in the Atthakatta (commentaries) is because they say the heart is the base for consciousness. they wrote: O n the other hand, Buddaghosa CONFIRMS in Visuddimagga that the seat of the Mind is Heart. Now we know, this cannot be possible, through lots of knowledge we have gained on the functions of the heart and the brain and the associated central nervous system. If the heart …