【The Twelve Factors of Dependent-Arising 希求解脱】The twelve factors of dependent-arising – Name and Form (1) 十二缘起之“名色” I

【The Twelve Factors of Dependent-Arising】- The twelve factors of dependent-arising – Name and Form (1)

【(4) Name-and-form
"Name" is the four [of the five] aggregates that are non physical: feeling, discrimination, compositional factors, and consciousness. As for the fifth aggregate, form, if you are reborn in a formless realm, you have no actual form, only the seed of form. Thus, the "form" in the term "name-and-form" applies to any form, such as the fertilized ovum, that is appropriate to any situation other than the formless realm.】

(Translator note: instead of using the fertilized ovum here, the Chinese text uses the term "kalala" which is the human embryo during the first seven days.)

What is "name-and-form," the factor of name-and-form? Feeling,discrimination, compositional factors and consciousness - these are non physical. For form and color, having form and color would mean "that which is perceptible and capable of offering resistance." In general, when we say "perceptible and capable of offering resistance," this special condition means you can see it with your eyes, hear it with your ears, taste it with your tongue and come in contact with it with your body. It is things of this sort. It is perceptible and offers material resistance. It is this type of thing. We can understand this. Therefore, in other words, other than the phenomena of the mind, the contaminated things in the mundane world would constitute form. 

SOURCE 来源 :

78A 19’01” Vol 10 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P190 L4
English Lamrim Vol 1 P317

日常师父法语📡78A 19’01” 手抄稿第10册P190 L4

希求解脱 : 十二缘起之“名色” I

【名色中名者，谓受想行识非色四蕴。色者若生无色，唯是色种而无实色，除此余位羯罗蓝等色，如应当知。】

什么是“名色”，名色一支呢？受、想、行、识，这个不是色。这个是颜色，颜色就是“有对”。平常所谓“对”的话，它有特别的，眼可见、耳可听，然后呢舌可尝、身可触，像这一种东西，那么这个可以表示的，这个有质碍的，像这一种东西，那我们了解的。所以换句话说心法以外的，这一个世间的那些有漏的东西，那就是色（编者按：“那就是名，心”此句疑师口误故删之）。