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The Third Level of Reality
Greed is a mental factor, when it arises in the mind, it has the nature to stick to the object. Greed is like glue, and that's the function that it serves in the mind,. The consciousness is not self, the object is not self - they're all just processes coming and going. In every moment of seeing, the consciousness is pure; but in every moment certain groups of factors arise. Anger, hatred, is a mentalfactor, it hasthe nature to strike against the object, we hear a sound. If the sound is unpleasant, that unpleasantness conditions hatred of some kind, irritation and annoyance. So in that moment of hearing, hearing consciousness, the mental