Foundation
The comprehension of the Concurrence of Logical Antecedents results in the recognition of the fundamentals. This recognition brings about the paradigm shift from existence to experience. This means Experience is all that we can talk about. All other things originate from experience. Experience is the foundation of all. (Sabba Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya). Therefore the most fundamental.
People normally think: the world existed first and then I came into being. Then “‘I’ met the ‘world,’ and I saw the world.” People also think wrongly that after death the world will continue while I have disappeared.
The fact, however, is: seeing arises first and it is only from the seeing (or perception) that the ‘I’ and the ‘world’ come into being. This was why the Buddha said: “In the seeing, there is only the seeing (Diṭṭhe diṭṭha mattaη bhavissati), there is neither the seer nor the seen. In other words there is only the experience of seeing. The subject and object are products of the experience. In other words, experience precedes existence. Existence does not come before experience as it is commonly thought. Existence is only a product of the process of perception, which is experience. Experience produces the subject and the object that are supposed to exist. It is this experience that the Buddha analysed into the five constituents of the process of perception (pañcakkhandha), which when personalized becomes the five personalized constituents of personalization. It is this personalization that produces the personality or self. This personality stands out in the form of the body and its properties.