Is the saññāvedayitanirodha a cognitive state?

[thomaslaw]

The state of saññāvedayitanirodha is in fact a result of mental projections (saṅkhārā):

Is arupa-loka actually the imaginative world of the mind?

According to SN/SA suttas, all the nine progressive stages of meditation (i.e. the 4 rūpas, 4 arūpas, and the cessation of perception-and-feeling ‘saññā-vedayita-nirodha’) are the results of mental projection (saṅkhārā). Only the ‘cessation of desire-hatred-delusion’ is based on true insight of the real world (i.e. ‘right view’): Page 122 from The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism Choong Mun-keat 2000.pdf (73.2 KB)