Everyone is different according to intricate deeds done in the distant past, in the same way that the citta, which is rendering things intricate this instant, would result in distinct birth, gender, form and figure, fame and fortune, happiness and unhappiness, blame and praise in the future.  Therefore, one should examine the characteristics of the citta appearing which is designing future realities.  If one were not mindful of the characteristics of the citta at this instant, one would not know how truly intricate it is.  As one is sitting here, citta would arise in continuation very rapidly.  We are sitting here but sometimes not only do citta see through the eyes, hear through the ears, but there are also citta that think far beyond, depending on where the thought would travel, or perhaps thinking of creating something intricate.

 In the passage in the first Gaddulasutta, 256, the Buddha said, Behold Bhikkhu, a dog tied with a rope or chained to a sturdy tether or post would run round the tether or post.  When it stands, it would stand near the tether or post.  Such are people who have not heard.

 The artist would take the painting he created as an object the way that the citta of the ordinary person takes rupa for entities, persons, the selves and continues to be attached to them in every birth, every lifetime, like a painter who is attached to his paintings.  As long as the ordinary person does not know the characteristics of rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara, vinnana, which are realities that truly arise and fall away, filled with the self, he would stand near rupa, vedana, sanna, sankhara, vinnana.