Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c33.s3.101
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c33.s3.101
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v2.c33.s3.101
In this controversy ñāṇa means maggañāṇa (insight belonging to the adepts who are in one of the four maggas). The M. contend that at the moment when an adept has cakkhuviññāṇa, etc., he cannot have maggañāṇa. In other words they mean to say that it is only when an adept develops maggañāṇa and stops his sense perceptions (viññāṇas), he may be described as ‘ñāṇī’, hence ñāṇa is not associated with mind (citta = viññāṇa).