Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 9, Stanzas 98-101

In these verses we are looking at the result of examining the experience of feeling and the impossibility of a sensation resulting simultaneous to a meeting of the sense and the sense object.

It has been previously explained through analysis that an event is only ever cognized after it has happened, resulting in the event – that is, the meeting of subject, object and response – is only ever recollected as a memory, of a moment to moment, linear series of actions, which we impute to be happening at the same time because it happens so quickly: so there is always a moment of cognition that precedes conscious engagement, followed by a judgement.

As well as this, it has already been explained in previous verses that there is no subject, no object, and nothing we can call sensation, meaning that all experience is illusory and so every feeling or response that follows is also illusory.

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