Ajahn Chah

This is delusion.

These are volitional karmic formations and that is consciousness.

The process doesn't give the scholars a chance to read out the list as it's happening.

Although the Buddha analysed and explained the sequence of mind moments in minute detail,

To me, it's more like falling out of a tree.

As we come crashing down, there's no opportunity to estimate how many feet and inches we've fallen.

What we do know is that we've hit the ground with a thud and it hurts.

When it falls for something, what we're aware of is the pain.

Where has all this suffering, pain, grief and despair come from?

It didn't come from theory in a book.

There isn't anywhere where the details of our suffering are written down.

Our pain won't correspond exactly with the theory, but the two travel along the same road.

So scholarship alone can't keep pace with the reality.

That's why the Buddha taught to cultivate clear knowing for ourselves.

Whatever arises, arises in this knowing.

when that which knows, knows in accordance with the truth, then the mind and its psychological factors are recognized as not ours.

Ultimately, all these phenomena are to be discarded and thrown away as if they were rubbish.

The Buddha did not teach about the mind and its psychological factors so that we'd get attached to the concepts.

His sole intention was that we would recognize them as impermanent

Unsatisfactory and not self.